Strimko-a fun  logic puzzle with 3 levels of difficulty-is created by Peter Grabarchuk and his family.

Every month or so we have a special flash version for Smartkit visitors, along with printable PDF sheets.

The object of the puzzle is to fill in the missing numbers, keeping in mind these simple rules:

Supply missing letters, and find a common proverb:

a-i-d-n-h-h-n-i-w-r-h-w-i-t-e-u-h.

It’s been 8 months since one of these has gone up-

Below, we’ve taken a relatively small section from a photo, and enlarged it.

What do you think the original object is?

While many jigsaws are best solved by first working on the edges, our second piece- Modern Magic might be best approached by starting in the center.

Modern Magic

-Mfox is new to the site. He and his sister have worked hard on finding an algebraic solution to the new goat problem.  He’s posted a nice explanation in the comment section, and has a diagram listed there too. Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks.

-Bilbao has sent me a better/clearer solution to the

This my rebus solved

Will bring to mind

What delights the heart

Of human kind.

What do you think?!

One of the better puzzle & brain games I’ve played recently: Splitter!

Toblerone chocolate was created in 1908 in Bern Switzerland.  The packaging features a triangular prism box marked with red letters against a gold background, and a mountain peak to the left of the letters.

A bear, which servers as the symbol of Bern, is hidden somewhere on the box- can you find it? Submit in ‘comment section’ below, will reveal answers later on this week

Jigsaw pieces have been floating around here forever now-in the comments section, the header, as intros before some of the flash games-  but strangely,  Smartkit has never once had an actual jigsaw puzzle up!

Yes, this one is going to be wickedly hard!

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A new one from Gray-T: Can you figure out the famous person?

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Click here to play this week’s new cryptogram

Neon Maze: A fun maze game

next week, someone has come up with a sequel to

A 50 year old man falls out of a thirty story building onto the ground, and lives.

How is this possible?

This one is kind of hard. Can you find the Dog’s Master?

View previously posted hidden object puzzles

Below is a drawing of the 100 most influential people in history according to Michael Hart’s book: The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History.

This puzzle card shows what you might see on a desk from the 1930s. However, even for an old desk, something just isn’t right. Can you find the fault?

Here’s the 4th Strimko set created for smartkit by the Grabarchuk’s.

And Congratulations to Peter Grabarchuk- Sterling recently published his book: