Brainy Puzzles and Fun Archives - Cognitive Literacy Solutions

Lose a Letter Puzzles

For each of the upside-down pyramids below, you need to “lose a letter” from the top row and then rearrange the remaining letters to create a new word with one less letter for the next row. Continue until you get to the bottom.

April Plexers

Have a little fun with these plexers. Plexers are word puzzles… read in a certain way, they each convey a common phrase.

A Bit of Brainy Humor

Here are some brain and neuroscience-related jokes and riddles, with explanations of the terms and the word play involved. Enjoy!

Shape Rotation Puzzle

This visual-spatial puzzle helps you think about how shapes would look if they were rotated in space. Great brain exercise!

Holiday Parfait Puzzle

In this puzzle, four scoops of ice holiday ice cream are in a parfait glass. The challenge is to get the scoops from the glass above the word Happy to the glass above the word Holiday by moving just one scoop at a time.

Pieces of Fruits Word Puzzle

This puzzles lists pieces of fruits — that is fruits without their vowels. Can you figure out what they are?

A Visual Thanksgiving Feast Puzzle

Visual perceptual skills are an important part of learning. Since we “feast with our eyes” first, enjoy a Visual Thanksigiving Feast Puzzle.

Suspension Bridge Logic Puzzle

One crisp autumn day, 12 friends went on a hike to the Mile High Swinging Bridge on Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Can you figure out the order in which they crossed the bridge?

Shifting Shapes Puzzle

This abstract reasoning puzzle will challenge your ability to detect the rules to find the right answer and complete the pattern. Which image belongs in the box?

Folded Cube Puzzle

In this puzzle, you need to figure out which of the cubes on the right could be formed from folding the shape on the left?

Abstract Thinking Puzzle

Abstract thinking is how we reason with information without prior knowledge. Here’s an example of the type of problem that needs abstract thinking.

Light Switch Puzzle

You are in a room with 3 light switches, each connected to a light bulb outside the room. Can you solve this puzzle?

The Learning Brain Crossword Puzzle

This crossword puzzle which challenge your knowledge of the brain and learning.

Donuts and Dougnuts

We created this Word Search Puzzle in honor of National Doughnut Day. Enjoy a doughnut or a donut and this Word Search.

Which Parts Make up the Whole?

Here’s a fun puzzle that will test how good you are at visualizing how shapes fit together.

Save This Turkey

Can you help get this turkey out of the maze … either because you want to save him from butcher’s block … or because you want to make sure there’s a turkey on your table this Thanksgiving … ?

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Shapes Thinking Puzzle

This problem comes from Conceptual Algebra Readiness for Everyone and you don’t need to “know Algebra” to be able to figure it out!

Gingerbread Man Puzzle

The gingerbread men in the top row follow a pattern. Can you figure out what it is? Which of the answers is the best?

Noodle Some Noodles

Here’s a noodle puzzle to get you noodling some noodles. Can you follow the spaghetti noodle paths and see which noodles will end up in which of the four bowls?

Flag Day Puzzle

In honor of Flag Day, here is a puzzle. Look at the array of flags below and see if you can figure out which one goes where the question mark is.

Visual-Spatial Thinking Paper Folding Puzzle

In this puzzle, the paper is folded twice and then a hole is punched. Can you visualize what the paper will look like when it is unfolded?

Fallen Origami Papers Puzzle

We were getting ready to make some origami folded paper objects, but just before we started, a gust of wind came through the open window and blew the papers onto the floor. The image below shows how they looked. Can you identify the order in which the papers landed on the ground?

Brainy Scrabble Bingo

Can you Bingo (play all 7 letters) with this Brainy Scrabble Board?

Can You Read this Road Map?

Reading a road map is about more than knowing left from right, especially in the days when we didn’t all have GPS systems in our cars and on our phones. In honor of National Read a Road Map Day, we created this little puzzle.

Frilly Flowers for Spring Puzzle

Can you tell a frilly flower from what that isn’t? This puzzle asks if you can you figure out the pattern. Which of the flowers in the bottom row is a “frilly flower?”

Progressions Puzzle

One kind of pattern is a progression or a sequence. In some progressions puzzles, as in this one, there may be several elements changing all at the same as the sequence progresses from one end to the other.