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Celebrate National Puzzle Month! Make A Jigsaw Puzzle

22-Jan-10

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 [...]

Celebrate National Puzzle Month! Create A Counter Puzzle

07-Jan-10

The counter puzzle seems simple. It consists of six movable disks (the counters) in a wooden frame. It doesn’t seem much of a challenge—not at first, that is. When you begin, the disks are arranged from 1 to 6 with a space in the middle, as pictured above. The object of the puzzle is to [...]

January Is National Puzzle Month – Give Your Brain A Workout In The New Year!

04-Jan-10

Grab a pencil. Draw six lines like this: Now see if you can add five more lines, making nine. If this type of mental play intrigues you, we think we’ve got your number. You like to solve problems, find answers to questions. You positively itch to baffle and mystify, or better yet, be baffled and [...]

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