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    Brain Teasers and Puzzles

    Our family loves a good, clever brain teaser! Brain teasers and puzzles are fantastic screen-free boredom busters for thinking kids and help children learn how to apply problem solving and logic skills. In this collection of brain teasers you will find everything from brain-boosting diy puzzles, waiting games and logic games. Many of them might even stump parents! Have fun!

    • Collection of wuzzle word puzzle lunch box notes scattered next to apple, egg and small tin of snacks.
      Lunch Box Word Puzzle Notes (Printable)
    • Print out of triangle composed of 6 circles and numbers 1-6 in separate circles for math triangle puzzle.
      Magic Triangle: Math Puzzle for Kids
    • Twelve paper cubes covered in patterns and numbers with text overlay that reads, Math Cube Puzzle.
      Math Cube Riddle: Brain Teaser for Kids
    • Magic square printable with large grid of nine squares filled in with pencil drawn numbers. Blue pencil and pile of beans nearby.
      Magic Squares Math Puzzle (3x3 Version)
    • Four piles of concentric circles made from blue, orange and yellow cardboard for tower of Hanoi puzzler game.
      Tower of Hanoi: Hands-On Logic Game
    • Different sized papers with a dot in the corner
      Dot-in-the-Corner Brain Teaser
    • T Puzzle deconstructed alongside completed puzzle
      T Puzzle (Boggle Your Mathematical Mind)
    • Quick Brain Teaser Puzzle For Kids (and Grown-Ups)
    • Tchuka Ruma game board with button tokens
      Tchuka Ruma: Solitaire Game for Kids
    • "Word games that boost brain power!" overlaid on photo of letter beads in a box.
      16 Word Games for Kids and Families
    • Thanksgiving word puzzle printable and riddles scattered on orange background and in glass jar.
      Thanksgiving Puzzles, Rebuses and Riddles
    • Halloween riddles on paper with gourd on orange background
      Halloween Brain Teasers for Kids: Rebuses and Riddles
    • Collage of four steps to make a bead and string puzzle using orange board with three holes, multicolored bead and long piece of white string.
      String and Bead Puzzle: Stump Your Kids!
    • Brain teaser advent calendar printable and decorative jar holding slips of paper.
      Make Your Own Brain Teaser Advent Calendar
    • Colorful wood puzzle pieces with text "single player logic games"
      Best Single Player Logic Games for Kids
    • Two filled in tromino boards in orange and blue
      Trominoes: Mathematical Puzzles for Kids
    • Moon Spinner brain teaser puzzle toy consisting of interlocking arcs and crescents.
      Moon Spinner: Brain Game of the Month
    • Collage of photos showing folding method for making a triangle and square puzzle
      Triangle Puzzle Will Stump Your Kids Longer than You Thought Possible
    • Grid of children's books with text overlay, Puzzle Books for Kids.
      Puzzle Books for Kids: Perfect for Travel & Quiet Time
    • Game board for patience solitaire game with colorful tokens on the side and on the board.
      Have Patience! Two Brain-Building Solitaire Board Games
    • Geometry puzzle in the shape of a heart made from triangles, with several of the triangles that form the puzzle loose off to the side.
      Heart Geometry Puzzle to Make Your Kids Love Math!
    • Boy thinking at school desk with text in thought bubble, "brain games for kids"
      15 Brain Games for Kids to Build Mental Agility
    • Sim game drawn on paper with markers.
      Sim Pencil Game: A Mathematical Brain Teaser for 2 Players!
    • ThinkFun Cat Crimes game box, board, cards and tokens set out for play.
      Game of the Month: Cat Crimes
    • 10 cards for math card puzzle
      Five Pointed Star: A Math Card Puzzle
    • Collage of DIY Puzzles for toddlers to tweens.
      35+ Make Your Own Puzzles for Kids: Ideas for all Ages
    • Pentalpha puzzle board in star shape with nine blue tokens
      Pentalpha Puzzle: A Brain Teaser from Crete
    • Blank piece of blue paper and scissors above photo of blue paper with cut out center flap standing up. Text between photos reads, Impossible paper puzzle.
      The Amazing, Stupendous, Impossible Paper Puzzle
    • Scattered line drawings of common objects with text that reads 20 brain tickling waiting games kids can play anywhere!
      20 Waiting Games For Kids That Will Tickle Your Brain
    • Peg solitaire triangle game created from 15 circles arranged on a paper in a pyramid shape. Assortment of blue and white pegs sit inside all the circles except one.
      The Tricky Tricky Peg Solitaire Triangle Game
    • Castle Logix game box, booklet and wood pieces made to look like castle turrets.
      Game of the Month: Castle Logix
    • Text, "Fun and amazing brain teasers for your next family gathering" with cropped images
      Fun and Amazing Brain Teasers for Family Gatherings
    • Two pieces of paper, each with one large orange and one large blue dots.
      Symmetry Paper Trick Brain Teaser
    • Two short cylinders made from yellow origami paper.
      Geometry Magic: Turn 2 Circles into 1 Square
    • Assortment of Möbius strips.
      Math Art with a Möbius Strip
    • Green owl graphic with thought bubble and text, Thinking Games for Kids.
      Six Thinking Games for Kids

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