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Here's
a nice little collection of puzzles on which you can spend your idle
time. We hope you do well with them, but remember that the whole
point is to have fun.
Clicking
on the puzzle names (in the left column) will bring up a new window.
You can take your time reading the puzzle, and when you are ready to
check your answer against the solution, just click any of the
"Go To Solution" buttons on the page.
The
puzzles are listed in (approximately) increasing
order of difficulty.
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| Dividing
by 2 |
Two, four, six, eight ... who
do we appreciate? Even numbers, that's who? Okay then, what
about the others?
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| Adding
odds |
One and two make three. But
what about five or seventeen or eighty-five? Why do the one's
and two's get all the publicity?
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Ages
and Ages |
What's
your age. What's your mother's or father's age? What's your
teacher's age? Why do I want to know? Maybe I'm just curious.
Maybe I'm a nosy snoop. But maybe I just want to see if you know
how to subtract! |
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Two
words |
Do
you know two words? Red and green? Oops, that's three words. Yes
I do? Oops, three words again! Argh!! |
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Poor
old Betsy |
When
is a cow like a boat? When it's a sail. Oh, I mean, when it's ON
sale! So figure out how much Betsy made (or lost) for her
farmer. |
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Lotta
triangles |
Old
McDonald had a triangle .. E I E I O .. with a triangle here,
and a triangle there, here a triangle, there a triangle,
everywhere a triangle! |
| An
apple a day |
Where's a teacher when you need
one? We've got lots of apples and they're going quickly!
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| Fractional
chickens |
On the fifteenth day of
Christmas, my true love gave to me ... half a chicken. Now what
can you do with half a chicken? Especially if it's not dead yet?
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| Farmer,
corn, goose, fox |
This is an old problem. How old
you ask? It's so old, that when it first came out, phone numbers
were only 2 digits! It's so old that when it first came out,
Heinz only had 4 varieties! It's so old, that when it first came
out, Baskin Robbins only had 3 flavors! It's so ... well, you
get the idea.
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| Tall
triangles |
A triangle may be 'right', but
that doesn't mean that looking at it differently is 'wrong'
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| Clocks
and races |
Round
and round and round it goes, and it never gets anywhere! Well,
in "time", maybe it will.
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| 41
cents |
Got milk? No? Okay, how about
41 cents? Well you better have at least that much if you want to
cross my river!
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| 17
cows |
Farmer Smith knew the land and
was a great farmer. He knew his sons and was a great father. He
knew how to add, but oddly enough, he was really lousy at math!
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Planets
& Basketball |
When
you think about it, there is very little difference between
planets and basketballs. They are both spherical. They both
bounce when you throw them on the floor. Well, maybe a really
big floor for a planet that is. |
| Onward
bikes! |
Remember
when your parents taught you how to ride a bicycle? Remember
when you finally did it all by yourself? Remember when you fell
on your face? Oh, let's try to forget that, huh? |
| Circle
PI |
Round and round and round we go
... where we stop, only PI will know! Here's a cute math problem
for you.
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