Thrifty Creativity – “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”

Pity the poor English child of the late 1700s. A marvelous game had just been invented, and the adults of that era saw fit to use it to sweeten the bitter pill of education. For approximately 40 years after they were invented, jigsaw puzzles were used exclusively to teach geography, history, morals, the Bible, the [...]

Tangram Play Although the tangram is related to the jigsaw puzzle in that pieces are jumbled up and then put together again, there the relationship ends. A jigsaw puzzle consists of many convoluted, frequently arbitrarily shaped pieces that fit together in only one way to make a predetermined configuration. But fitting the seven jumbled tangram [...]

There are two aspects of crossword puzzles—constructing them and solving them. Constructing The Puzzle The first step in constructing a crossword puzzle is to get a crossword diagram. One way is to copy a diagram from a newspaper, magazine, or book—you might start with the one shown here: If you want to start from scratch [...]