New Brainfood Puzzles
As promised, over Christmas break (between the flu and a chest cold) I put together a new set of Brainfood Puzzles. These can be found here:
BrainFood
There is one new Puzzle for each week from now until the beginning of June. Then, of course, I will be taking the summer off, and we'll start again in the new school year.
What kinds of puzzles will you find in the Brainfood this winter/spring?
Word Associations
You are given a set of two to four words, and asked to find one word which can be associated with each word in the set. It might be associated because it is a synonym, or because it is used in an idiom with that word. Glance through last fall's puzzles to get an idea how this works.
Rhyming Associations
You are given a set of words, and asked to find a set of rhyming words which can be associated with those words.
There are a few tricks this spring; one of the puzzles may require you to look something up in a translator program (don't worry - when you get to that puzzle, you'll know it!), and some of the puzzles involve words that sound alike but are spelled differently.
The high score list has been reset, so everyone starts with a clean slate.
If you are a school teacher, and you want your class to participate, you can have each student look at the puzzle, but please sign up an account for the entire class and submit one solution, rather than having each student submit their own solution. Have your students discuss the riddle together, and come to a consensus on an answer they want to submit.
Hope you enjoy these little puzzles!
Douglas Twitchell
The Problem Site
BrainFood
There is one new Puzzle for each week from now until the beginning of June. Then, of course, I will be taking the summer off, and we'll start again in the new school year.
What kinds of puzzles will you find in the Brainfood this winter/spring?
Word Associations
You are given a set of two to four words, and asked to find one word which can be associated with each word in the set. It might be associated because it is a synonym, or because it is used in an idiom with that word. Glance through last fall's puzzles to get an idea how this works.
Rhyming Associations
You are given a set of words, and asked to find a set of rhyming words which can be associated with those words.
There are a few tricks this spring; one of the puzzles may require you to look something up in a translator program (don't worry - when you get to that puzzle, you'll know it!), and some of the puzzles involve words that sound alike but are spelled differently.
The high score list has been reset, so everyone starts with a clean slate.
If you are a school teacher, and you want your class to participate, you can have each student look at the puzzle, but please sign up an account for the entire class and submit one solution, rather than having each student submit their own solution. Have your students discuss the riddle together, and come to a consensus on an answer they want to submit.
Hope you enjoy these little puzzles!
Douglas Twitchell
The Problem Site
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