Logic puzzles
Use your logic
Here is a quick puzzle from Brain-Fun.com for you to work through. How logical are you?
On top of Mount Dilemma sits the monastery of Grand Enigma. Seven of the monks are on a diet of bread and water. Each of them has confessed to a different pair of deadly sins. And each sin has claimed a [...]
Looking for a puzzle?
We have given you lots of puzzles to do here in our blog. We thought we should give you a list of some of those we have mentioned so that you don’t have to hunt through the whole blog to find them.
Here we go:
Australiana Anagrams and the answers
Memory Challenge
Brain Teasers
Cryptograms
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Lateral Thinking
How Observant are You?
Drop [...]
Solving the Peg Solitaire Puzzle.
I have seen these puzzles around and have tried to play them with kids but someone always loses patience with it. Don’t look at me! I always thought this one was too hard to do so I was pleased to find a solution.
Here is a quick video clip that shows you how the puzzle can [...]
Looking for a simple logic puzzle?
This is so simple that it is ridiculous. Try it out with your friends and watch them look for the hard and sneaky answers.
Water in Glass – Logic Puzzle – The best home videos are here
Brain Training
Brain training is becoming increasingly popular lately and we are happy to encourage it. We have come across a site called Brain Training 101 which has all sorts of games on it. There are memory games, brain teasers and action games which will keep your mind active.
You might like to try some of the memory games. [...]
Do you homeschool?
Homeschooling is more popular today than it was ten years ago. Parents choose homeschooling for many reasons. It could be to meet a child’s particular needs, because of location or even because traditional schooling does not offer the subjects that their child needs.
Coming up with stimulating yet educational activities can be the hardest part of [...]
The SET Puzzle
I found the SET Puzzle while I was on Twitter. What a clever little puzzle this is. It looks so simple but it will really give your brain a workout.
This is what it looks like.
Looks easy doesn’t it? Don’t be fooled. It is harder than it looks. The site has a great tutorial that will [...]
What is MENSA?
According to Wikipedia, Mensa is the largest, oldest and best known high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised intelligence test. Mensa is formally composed of national groups and the umbrella organization Mensa International. There is an Australian [...]
Lateral Thinking
Lateral thinking is a way of problem solving that looks at the situation from lots of different angles. Most of us, when confronted with a problem, tackle it head on in the same way we tackled the last one. A lateral thinking will look for alternate ways to approach the situation.
Puzzles that involve lateral thinking [...]
Hashi
Hashi is a puzzle that is also known as bridges.
A great book for the Hashi beginner is called “Hashi: The bridges puzzle” by Alistair Chisolm. This book has 202 puzzles in it and they are of varying degrees of difficulty. Alistain Chisolm is an expert puzzler and is the brains behind the web sites at www.sudoku-san.com [...]
