Puzzles: On NPR’s Car Talk, they have “puzzlers.” Is there another name for these logic/thinking puzzle?
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ChuckBoutwell asked:
I’d like to lookup these kind of puzzles for my students to encourage and stimulate critical thinking. Or do you have any idea where to find more. Thanks.
Cars
I’d like to lookup these kind of puzzles for my students to encourage and stimulate critical thinking. Or do you have any idea where to find more. Thanks.
Cars
November 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am
brain teasers. you can probably just type in brain teasers on yahoo or google and some good websites should pop up
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Lateral thinking puzzles. Stories with Holes. Brain teasers.
Good luck!
November 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
A rebus is a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words.
A riddle is a puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature; a mental challenge
A tangram is a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.
A puzzler is a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution.
A conundrum is a difficult problem.
A logogriph is a sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; — thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
A word square (or acrostic) is a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across.
A cryptogram is a piece of writing in code or cipher.