PUZZLES

3D PUZZLES

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Oops Pyramids - Step 1: Stack the double balls to make a pyramid. The balls are joined in pairs and stack on a cherry wood base. Once you've got the pyramid building mastered, try Step 2: stacking the balls in the pyramid so no identical colors touch. It's harder than it looks. One style uses 3 levels colorfully painted balls in red, yellow, and blue. The other style has 4 levels of beautiful, natural wood balls. Click here to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). a) $14.00 a) 3-level painted colors b) $20.00 b) 4-level natural
Beaded Links Pyramid - Use 4 pieces that have 3 linked wooden beads each and 2 pieces that have 4 linked wooden beads each to make a pyramid. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $8.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
3-Piece Pyramid - A very simple pyramid for wee hands or elders who have advanced illness. The 3 pieces are chunky and easy to handle. When complete, the natural wood grain makes for an attractive item on a shelf or table. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $16.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Shoot the Moon or Roll Up - Move the metal rods back and forth as the ball moves up the slope, finally to be dropped into the high point pocket! Patience and practice do the trick. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $28.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Wooden Snake - Linked squres extend to form a long snake-like piece. The puzzle is to get the 27 cube snake back into a large cube. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $8.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Wooden Die - You already know that opposite sides of a die equal 7, thus 1 is opposite 6, 2 is opposite 5, and 3 is opposite 4. Now take that knowledge to make a die from 9 strips of wood with pips (dots) on them. It's harder than you can imagine! Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $14.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Rubik's Puzzles - Here are various Rubik's configurations. Cubes include 3x3 anniversary edition, 4x4, and 5x5. Rubiks World has an 8 piece globe configuration: 4 for the top half and 4 for the bottom half. Can you put the world back together? Rubik'sTwist can make thousands of shapes. Click here to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). a) $12.00 a) 3x3 b) $20.00 b) 4x4 c) $30.00 c) 5x5 d) $12.00 d) world e) $14.00 e) twist
Tower of Hanoi - Move pieces of different sizes from post A to post C, using post B for storing. Only one section can be moved at a time and a larger section can not be put atop a smaller one. Click here to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). a) $16.00 a) 5 pagodas, 10 x 3 inch base b) $xx.00 b) 5 squares, 1.5 x 5 inch base

FLAT PUZZLES

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Fifteen Puzzle - A reproduction of an old puzzle first introduced in 1933. You move stainless steel tiles with decorative enamel facings around a square. The 15 tiles have the numbers 1-15 on them. The puzzle already comes in numerical order from top to bottom. Try reversing the order so 1-15 goes from bottom to top. Then maybe around the outside with 15 in the center. Maybe try to get all the evens in the two top rows and the odds in the bottom two rows. The combinations are numerous! The box includes a leaflet with over 30 challenges to try and a little traveling case. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $10.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Blue Tangoe Pieces - Sometimes called silhouette puzzles, the goal is to take 7 varied shapes and make an image, such as a fisherman, dog, bunny, tea pot, etc. Tangrams/Tangoes are puzzles from old China. This modern version uses 7 pieces of plastic to create the items indicated on image cards. Available only in BLUE. This package has 7 images: Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $4.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Tangoes Jr for Seniors! - Instead of small outlines telling how to make an image, these 10 large cards have large broken up illustrations on their backs where the pieces go in order to make the image on the front. In this way, the puzzler can match the 7 plastic pieces to the image more easily. I provide these more for seniors with illnesses rather than for youngsters. Useable with the blue tangoes above. Click here to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). a) $7.00 a) 10 animal images (no pieces) b) $7.00 b) 10 object images (no pieces) c) $7.00 c) 10 people images (no pieces)
Math Squares - Arrange 9 numbered squares so the sum of the numbers horizontally, vertically, and diagonally are the same. Then arrange 16 numbers in a 4x4 square. Lastly, arrange 25 numbers in a 5x5 square. A version of the 4x4 magic square is in an engraving by Albrecht Dürer entitled Melancholia. Dürer 's magic square is based on 34 and has the additional property that the sums in any of the four quadrants, as well as the sum of the middle four numbers, are all 34. An added bonus is that the numbers 15 and 14 appear in the middle of the bottom row, indicating the date of the engraving, 1514. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $8.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Izzi - Challenging and beautiful, puzzlers try to match the sturdy die-cut, black and white cardboard 2 inch square tiles side-to-side to build a square. Just match black to black and white to white. There are 64 square tiles and an endless number of solutions. Solitaire or with friends, Izzi comes with suggestions for different challenges. An added note, the 64 different tiles are almost a complete set of all the combinations of a square cut into 8 black and white triangles. The full set would be 70 tiles, so the 6 most regular tiles are omitted to get down to 64. Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $12.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Jump & Remove Solitaire - The object is to end with one marble on the game board, preferably in the center. The only move allowed is jumping over an adjacent marble. The jumped marble is removed. A marble left alone may get stuck on the board. Two marbles left is superb, 3 marbles remaining is good, 4 or more marbles remaining-start over. You may have seen a solitaire puzzle made with golf tees instead of marbles. Legend claims that Solitaire was invented to entertain Louis XIV, "The Sun King" who ruled from 1643 to 1715. A French engraving dating from 1697 shows Princess de Soubise playing the game of solitaire. This puzzle has challenged and mathematicians, royalty, and commoners for centuries. Click here to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). a) $12.00 a) wood round base with wooden balls, 8 1/2 inch diameter b) $18.00 b) polished aluminum board with ball-bearing style marbles, 7 3/8 inch diameter c) $12.00 c) marbles on 5x5 inch square wood base d) $12.00 d) marble triangle on 5 inch square wood base d) $12.00 e) wood triangle with storage inside, wood base, bottom width 6 3/4 inch

PUZZLE CARDS

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Classic Mind Trap in a Tin - A tin with 486 cards that have puzzles and trick questions that challenge your thinking and bend your brain. Teams ask questions until the puzzles are solved. What you think is a clue is really a trap. Then you will confront the type of head scratcher that appears impossible to solve ... until you hear the answer, and then you'll realize you overlooked the obvious and it was easy after all. Play solitaire or with others while traveling in the car or while at home. Anywhere you want to exercise your mind! EXAMPLE: Which is correct to say, 'The yolk of the egg ARE white' or 'The yolk of the egg IS white'? Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $27.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). ANSWER: Neither. The yolk of the egg is yellow.
Visual Brainstorms - Here are 100 humorous drawings, diagrams, and visual brainteasers made to challenge, entertain, captivate, amuse, or enlighten. Give your brain a lively workout and delight family and friends with categories like: eyeball tanglers, logic puzzles, twisted mazes, coded messages, 3-D befuddlers, physics quandaries, and brain conundrums. Each card is color coded to indicate the level of difficulty: Easy, Hard and Very Hard. And each card includes a Bonus Question. EXAMPLE: As little Bucky looks at himself in the mirror, which of the four reflections illustrated is the one he'll see? BONUS QUESTION (cover the image before reading): At what hour and minute was little Bucky enjoying his reflection? Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $13.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). ANSWER: The correct answer is the one directly above bucky and the mirror. BONUS ANSWER: He was enjoying his reflection at 11:10.
Noodlers - Each puzzle has a field of shapes. The goal is to use sticks to separate multiple icons into their own individual area. The catch? Instructions state the number of sticks used to solve the puzzle. Challenging and addictive puzzles to exercise your brain. 44 spatial-reasoning puzzles and 8 sticks. EXAMPLE: Separate each icon into an area by itself using 4 sticks Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $12.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99).
Logic Links - Use your thinking skills to reason out sequencing puzzles in this collection of logic puzzles created to sharpen your deduction abilities. You have 48 chips to help you visually organize your thinking. 100 puzzles plus solutions. EXAMPLE: Use 3 yellow chips, 2 white chips, and 1 green chip. (Use the circles below to organize your chips.) 1: The ends are two different colors 2: One yellow chip is the only chip between the other two yellow chips 3: The white chips do not touch 4: The green chip is directly to the right of a white chip 5: Neither end is yellow Click here to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. $12.00 Type the desired number if you want more than 1 (but not over 99). ANSWER: white, yellow-yellow-yellow, white, green

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