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Strategy and Logic Puzzles

 

Try these puzzles using pencil and paper:

  • Which letter comes next in this sequence? OTTFFSS__
  • Using the numbers 0, 4, 8, and 12 in the following square, you can complete it so that all the vertical, horizontal, and long diagonal rows add up to 24. (You may use each number more than once.)
                       
                       
                       
                       
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  • We've been working on anagrams. These are words that can be rearranged to spell other words. Some of you got stuck on snake which can be changed to sneak. You can also find anagrams in phrases. Try these and bring the answers next week.
    1. fluster
    2. teacher
    3. generate
    4. weather
    5. disease

      These will be phrases:
    6. little
    7. someone
    8. wonderful
    9. dynamite
    10. Does your name make an anagram?

     

  • What is the beginning of all eternities, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every race?
  • Dot likes pots and pans, but not cooks. She likes straw, but not hay. She likes sagas, but not poems. Does she like a star or a planet?


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