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3D riDDle - Single image stereograms, or SIS--what are they? Ever seen those pictures that look like a bunch of squiggly lines or repeating images but supposedly have hidden pictures in them? Some people can "see" the hidden images, and some, try as they might, just can't. If you're one of the former group, try the puzzles here. Solve one, click in the right place, and you are allowed to go on to the next level. Warning: These mazes are HARD, and they could drive you crazy! We told you so, so don't complain to us later.
Brain Teasers - If you're looking for some cool puzzles to stretch your brain cells, try this site. Every week you'll find new brain teasers, arranged by grade level. Typical puzzles include map reading, word problems, and puzzles that require a genuinely different outlook. Stumped? If you need a clue, the solutions are provided.
Gry, Gry, Everywhere, and Not a Clue in Sight - Have you heard this puzzle? Quick--name three words that end in "-gry." Having a hard time? Here are a list of -gry words, but the solution to the puzzle may be that the question is just phrased the wrong way!
I, Rearrangement Servant - Do you know what an anagram is? Take all the letters in a word or phrase, scramble them, and come up with a new word or phrase! For example, "Inert Net Grave Near Mars" is an anagram for "Internet Anagram Server." Type in ten or fewer letters and see what mysterious phrase you'll get.
Internet Coach Puzzle Center - Make your own puzzles or try some of the ones created for you. Ever heard of a "word shape" puzzle? It looks like a line of empty boxes, but then you realize some of them go above or below the line--following the shape of the word. Can you guess the word from the clues given? If that's not hard enough, try making a crossword puzzle, secret code, word search, or other type of game. It's fun!
Kids Domain Valentines - Everything Valentine! Valentine shareware and freeware. You'll find original coloring pages, crafts, word searches, mazes, graphics and more.
Maze Box - Try your hand at solving these mazes. Work your way through shapes such as dolphins, baby birds, Chinese characters, and a piece of chocolate. There are so many mazes that you might get lost!
Maze Design by Adrian Fisher - Learn the history of mazes as well as the variety of them you can visit around the world. Some are traditional hedge mazes, while others are built in cornfields and last only until the corn is harvested. Still others involve mirrors or water. The latter may seem straightforward until a door that wasa moment ago is suddenly shut behind a curtain of water. Tricky, huh?
Puzzlemaker - This is a neat site that shows how to make some fun party games or how to make puzzles to add some interest to a school assignment or class newsletter. You can very easily create word search puzzles, hidden message puzzles, crossword puzzles, mazes, math squares, and more. Print them out and send them to your friends and family. Everyone will wonder how you did it!
Secret Language - Psssst! Want to send a secret message to a friend, one that nobody else can possibly decipher? Head on over to this page at San Francisco's Exploratorium, where you can print out a copy of some substitution cipher wheels. Put one inside the other, twirl them around a little bit, and you're in the spy biz!
Tongue Twisters - You'll find quite a few of these here, from the banal "How much wood could..." to the short and clever "Unique New York" and "Truly Plural." Go ahead--say them a few times.
WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen - Sure, you can look up words online and get the definitions from this famous dictionary publisher. But you can also read some of the fascinating features about interesting words and scratch your head over some perplexing word puzzles. See what words Shakespeare coined, or trace the history of the word "phat." Find out how words get into the dictionary, too. This page explains how Merriam-Webster does it, and they should know the best way, because they have been doing it since the 1880s. There are more than 15 million citations for word uses in their database today. For their "just for kids" version and a student dictionary, try Word Central.
Word.Net's Ambigram.Matic - It's a flipped out, backwards world at this site, the world's only ambigram generator. Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read in at least two different ways, such as right side up and upside down. To find out how, cruise over to this silly site and try typing in your name.
Zini's Activity Page - Print these 35 activity pages for some offline fun. Circle the biggest flower. Put an X on the smallest one. See if you can follow a tricky maze. Mark the shape that doesn't match the others. You can color the pages, too.
www.MAZES.com - Perplexing Puzzles by John - Totally amazing! The Maze Man has invented mazes that spell messages, hexagonal mazes, word mazes, movie mazes, and more delights to puzzle over. Don't miss the pizza maze, where you start at the jalapeno pineapple pizza and try to make your way around to the sausage one. Hungry? You will be by the time you finish this game.
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