The Dot Puzzle

Pretend that the above is drawn on a piece of paper, draw 4 lines with an imaginary pen w/o lifting the pen so that the lines go through all the dots using only 4 lines.

Match Sticks Puzzle

Move six matches in such a way that you get a house instead of these wine glasses.

Airplane Shadow

 

An airplane flying at several thousand feet casts a shadow on the ground. Will the shadow be larger, smaller or the same size as the airplane? Why?

Gear Anagram

Each of the five interlocking gears possess letters at its contact point. (The numbers next to the gear specifies how many teeth the gear has.) After a certain number of revolutions, the letters at the four contact points will spell out an eight-letter word, read from left to right.

Can you make out how many revolutions it will take and what the secret word is?

Which Area is Larger?


In this figure, which area is larger, Area 1 or Area 5?  How much is the difference?

Around the World

What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

Hamiltonian Circuit

A Hamiltonian Circuit is a continuous path that passes once through each point of a graph. Can you find the Hamiltonian Circuit for the 11-point graph illustrated here?

Bird in a Cage

Puzzle found in the May 2011

Square Puzzle

Slice the picture into 2 sections from which you could make an 8×8 square.

Triangles

This picture shows two large triangles, each made up of a number of pieces, each a rearrangement of the other. But one has a square missing. How can this be?

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