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Puzzles, Mazes & Word Games
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.
Activities for Kids - Birthday Party Word Search - A Birthday Party Word Search game. Can you find all the words? Don't forget to look forwards, backwards and diagonally!
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.
Davis' Farmland - Listen to farm animals, color in their pictures, solve farm word puzzles and mazes, send a friend a virtual postcard and shut the barn door before the horse escapes!
Entertainment - Digital Agora - Welcome to the entertainment department of Digital Agora. Try the online version of this popular sliding puzzle game. Two puzzles are available. Don't forget to try the interactive memory game where the game is won by matching symbols on cards!
Fun Ranch - Have you ever played a game against a cow? How about a cowboy robot? Well, mosey on over to the ranch and they'll be happy to play a few games with you there.
Glenn Teitelbaum's Maze - These mazes are fairly straight forward. You must try to find the EXIT without finding the MINOTAUR.
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 "word shape" puzzles? 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!
Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - Excercise your mind! Try your hand at crossword puzzles and word seeks. Over 100 crossword puzzles on many different educational subjects such as World War II, the fifty states, and most frequent SAT words.
Kids's Corner Puzzle - Here is one wing. Where is the other one? Hmm, the body goes here, and, oops, leave room for the antennae to go here. Can you guess what kind of puzzle we¹re doing and what picture we will have when we are done?
Linguistic Fun - Plenty of little language puzzles await you here to help sharpen up your wit and tickle your funny bone. How is "ghoti" pronounced (you'll never guess!), what's the longest place name in the world, and don't forget the Linguistic Olympics puzzles if you're really a pro.
MasterMind - This is a Web version of the popular MasterMind game. You can play this game right over the Internet. The objective is to break the "code" by finding the right combination of colors. The computer will show a black peg, which means you have the right color.
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?
Perplexing Puzzles and Amazing Mazes - 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.
Puzzability - The puzzles and games created by Puzzability are not your typical word searches and dot-to-dots. For example, Rhyming Spree is a crossword puzzle with a twist-- Every clue contains one extra word that rhymes with the answer to the clue. Or try the Old Switcheroo, or maybe Two-Timers, where they take familiar words and illustrate them twice: once accurately and once punnily or phonetically and you have to match the pairs. These are just a few exaples of the fun awaiting you here. Come give them a try.
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!
Puzzles at Kids' Corner - Here is one wing. Where is the other one? Hmm, the body goes here, and, oops, leave room for the antennae to go here. Can you guess what kind of puzzle we're doing and what picture we will have when we are done?
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.
Vocabulary University - Sam Mantics, Dean of Admissions and Directions at Vocabulary University guides you through several levels of puzzles as you search for the meaning of words and the limitless quest of vocabulary acquisition. Don't get the idea this is very easy--start with the lowest level and work up. Cinny Nym and Auntie Nym are available to give you hints, and there are clues everywhere. After you do a few of these, you'll catch on quickly!
Wacky Web Tales - Do you like those zany stories where you fill in the blanks and then see what story has been made up using the words you provide? Well, here are some of the zaniest, but that's not all... you can also submit your own web tale for others to be able to fill in the blanks.
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.
WWWebster Dictionary - 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.
Zini's Activity Page - Print these 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.
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