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Puzzling Word Find
Created by bryanilee
A word search puzzle about ... puzzles. How puzzling!
Instructions: There are many kinds of puzzles - word puzzles, shape puzzles, mechanical ones, mathematical ones. Try your hand at answering these puzzle-related questions, and then find those answers in the word search puzzle!
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A ____ thinking puzzle is sometimes known as a situational or yes/no puzzle
lateral
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Japanese logic puzzle where each digit can appear only once per row, column, and square
sudoku
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Crossword puzzle author for the New York Times, and Puzzlemaster on NPR
Will Shortz
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John Spilsbury is credited for commercializing this kind of puzzle, involving interlocking pieces
jigsaw
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Like cracking enemy codes? You might like this kind of puzzle
cipher
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Like a numerical crossword, where the digits in each cell must sum up to the clue
kakuro
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A dissection puzzle involving seven pieces that you can rearrange into shapes
tangram
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The Seven ____ of Königsberg was proven to have no solution by Euler, laying the foundations for graph theory
Bridges