A perfectly symmetrical star is hidden in the design above; can you find it?

Feel free to print the picture above, it may make the puzzle easier to solve…

Answers to this challenge can be entered into the section below; submissions will automatically be revealed when time is up!

This is a printable antique puzzle card put out many years ago as an advertisement for Van Houten’s Cocoa. On the back of the card, it says:  ‘BEST & GOES FARTHEST, Pure, Soluble, and Easily Digested’. One of the medical journals from way back when- Medical Annual- called it “A PERFECT BEVERAGE”.  The final line of the advertisement proudly states: “Houten’s  Cocoa contains all the nutritive properties of the cocoa bean in a highly concentrated an easily digested form”.

I guess Coca-Cola once too contained all the nutritive properties of the coca plant in a highly concentrated and easy to drink form ; )

OK, so here’s the challenge:

With seven coins, try to cover seven of the circles of the eight-pointed star, taking care that a circle is not covered when the opposite two points (at the ends of the two black lines) are already occupied. For example, points 5 and 7 both being covered, nothing more may be set on point 2.

Interestingly, the fine print just below the picture went on to say:  “Although the solution is very simple, many persons will not be able to cover more than four or five instead of the seven circles”.  Is that a challenge I hear?!

Answers to this printable puzzle can be entered into the section below; submissions will automatically be revealed when time is up!

Divide the picture above into 5 segments so that each segment has 2 trees and an equal share of the lawn. Make sure you don’t cut the house up! (ignore the blue border-it’s not part of the problem)

Answers to this challenge can be entered into the section below; submissions will automatically be revealed when time is up!

Two animals are spelled out in the rebus puzzle above. Can you figure each of them out?

Makes for a good printable puzzle for teachers looking to challenge their students.

Related:

Old Saying Hidden in a Rebus (a bit harder than the riddles above)

Simple Sentence Rebus (classic easier riddle)

The Totem Pole shape consists of Yellow, Sky Blue, and Purple blocks. Which is greatest:

• the total volume of the Yellow Blocks?
• the total volume of the Sky Blue blocks?
• or the total volume of the Purple blocks?

(Attention Teachers: this makes for a good printable puzzle!)

Related:

The Big Totem Pole Puzzle: FOUR SQUARES

The Big Totem Pole Puzzle:  THE EAGLE

Smart-Kits full printable puzzle archive

The above printable Totem Pole puzzles made especially for Smart-Kit.com by Peter Grabarchuk.

If the sequence of boxes in the top row were to continue, which of the answer figures in the bottom row would come next?

NEW: For the past couple years, I’ve held off on revealing any submitted answers for at least 2-3 days. While there are ‘pros’ to doing it this way, there are also ‘cons’. For example, many visitors do not want to wait several days to see the answer, and get frustrated.

So starting with today’s question, we’re going to try a new system.

• comments will go live immediately
• a blue button will need to be clicked before comments/answers are shown; so those who want to try the puzzle won’t easily see the answers
• answers can be discussed, debated, or agreed upon in real time
• guidance/verification on answers can be had from some of our amazingly talented regulars, who are now more readily identified.

We’ll see how it goes!

Something (or someone?)  is  hidden inside the fingerprint….

Related:

Another fingerprint hidden object puzzle (printable)

Can you draw the figure shown with one continuous mark without crossing a line?

Can you make your way to all the letters and back to the starting point without going through any letter spot more than once?

Begin at the letter ‘T’, spell a complete sentence, using each letter once.

[may be easier for some of you to print the picture out]

Don’t despair with this amusing printable puzzle (also known as the 12 point problem):

Starting with a three by four matrix of dots (see image) you must connect all the dots via five straight lines PLUS you have to finish where you started.

Can you do it?!

Thanks to Bilbao for submitting!

Note: Answers to the 12 Dots puzzle can be viewed in picture format and word/description format below. Check to see what our puzzle masters have come up with!

(click on picture above to view in higher resolution-printable)

The Totem Pole shape consists of pink, green, and brown blocks. Which two color groups have the same total volumes of their respective blocks:

• Pink and Green?
• Pink and Brown?
• or Green and Brown?

This is the 2nd in our “Totem Pole” series. The first visual-spatial brain exerciser can be found here!

If you can solve, submit your answer below- will reveal on Friday.

The Totem Pole puzzle series was made especially for Smartkit by Peter Grabarchuk (co-creator Strimko, as well as a bunch of other neat puzzles found here!)

Click on picture below to view FULL fingerprint (This puzzle is also printable)

Submit your answers below, will reveal at the end of the week!

Earlier hidden object puzzles from Smart-Kit can be found here

This cat is in a hurry-he’s running away from another animal.

Can you spot it?

(answers submitted below will be unmasked in day or 2, thanks)

more  picture puzzles

more printable puzzles

Try to draw the form of a 5 pointed star that is larger than the others, and yet have it not touch one of them!

click on the image above to view in higher resolution. You may want to print this higher quality picture out when trying to solve this puzzle.

If you can solve this, feel free to enter your answer below. Will unmask submissions toward the end of the week-good luck!

UPDATE! Those who have solved this so far include:

• Someone (the 17 year old high school whiz who was 1 of 2 to solve the ‘impossibly hard’ 3rd level of Untouchable11)
• Bobo The Bear
• Hendy
• Falwan
• Sally (Welcome to Bizarette18′s daughter!)
• Diego
• Jeff Kosmos
• Jonah
• Trunicated

[click on image to view/print higher resolution picture]

The Totem Pole shape consists of Orange, Red, and Blue blocks. Which volume is the smallest: the total volume of the Orange blocks,  the total volume of the Red blocks, or the total volume of the Blue blocks?

Peter Grabarchuk created this especially for Smartkit : )

also- Carl H, while doing an interesting analsyis of Untouchable 11, has created a variant challenge that should be a litter easier than the ‘impossibly hard’ level.  Scroll down to comment 19 here.

More Smartkit Printable Puzzles