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Contest Awards — We are awarding a prize to a winner of the Home Educators Resource Directory (HERD) contests! This customized puzzle challenge, yours to print on sturdy paper, then cut out and solve, is replayable without limit for new solutions. Results and news posted here when available.

 
Our featured attractions

• Puzzle Parlor
  Solve samplers of 12 of our standard gamepuzzles, each with 3 levels of challenge. Many solutions exist for each. How many can you find? You need Flash for these.

• Mini-Quizzes
  These puzzlers are all still open, with new ones added occasionally. You could win a prize or at least get your name on the solvers' list. Some are extremely tricky.

• Memory Games
  Match up pairs of images—if you can remember where they are! Try your hand and memory on 18 different styles and improve your score with each attempt. A few have hidden links. Part of the fun is trying to find them.

• Children's Stories
  Including an interactive adventure visiting other planets. Can you help Carl get back to earth in time for dinner?

• Coloring Book
  A metagraphic design of art that you paint your way. Save your designs for future reference or to share with others.

 
Paper and pencil games
You may print out any of these pages for your personal use. Please contact us for permission beforehand if you'd like to republish them elsewhere.

• 7 x 7 = 7—seven heptiamonds form a 7 and a triangle
• Annigrams—a triple anagram puzzle
• Word Pingpong—a bouncy word game
• Celebrating LXX—70 squares match edge markings
• Double Entendre—two words overlap with dual letters
• G = 7—make the 12 pentominoes into a G and a 7
• Logo matchstick puzzles—topological transformations
• Logo maze puzzle—find the connecting route in exactly 25 moves
• Logo path puzzle—find the shortest route
• Magic '8'—8 octominoes build an 8, make magic sums
• Magic Heptominoes—find the 5 missing pieces
• The Octo Clock—challenges with 8 numbered, indented octagons
• The Octo Maze—match paths to make 8's with 8 indented octagons
• OHIO Sixteen—double-whammy Sudoku and sliding puzzle to print, cut out, solve
• The Prague Czecherboard—6x6 checkerboard with letters P R A G U E in every row
• The Three-Squared Challenge—match or mismatch colors, find hidden letters
• The Star-9 Challenge—get the numbers right

 
Play online
Those marked with * are by others that you'll find on their sites. We share them here because they're great fun and kin to our own material. Please let us know if any links no longer work.

• AlienTiles*—online game on Cliff Pickover's site
• Chat Noir*—go-like strategy chasing a black kitten on GameDesign site (Japan)
• Color Test*—a left-right brain twister from Humorsphere
• Combination Lock*—deduce the right numbers on Ian Andrew's site
• Comblo*—make squares with tetromino blocks on John Ewen's site
• Flower Garden Game—interactive 25-grid checker challenge with flowers
• Free Rice—build your vocabulary while helping to feed the hungry
• Grand Tour*—connect dots on Glenn Iba's site
• Hexagrams*—a matching game by Eric Solomon, play on his site
• Kaliko—match paths on hexagons, hosted on a Hungarian website
• Kaleidoscope*—match colors on the Addicting Games website
• Leapfrog—a classic jumping switch-places solitaire (needs Java enabled)
• Minima*—sliding blocks by Dick Hess, play on Puzzleworld site
• Multimatch IV—match colored triangles on Toby Gottfried's site
• PathPix*—download gorgeous pathforming puzzles by Kris Pixton from her site
• Pearl Fisher—play online against a cunning computer
• Ping Pong*—adrenaline rush in simulated table tennis on a Dayton site
• Planarity*—move nodes to untangle crossed lines on creator John Tantalo's site
• Puzzle Express*—fill railroad cars with polyominoes from RealArcade site
• Puzzlr*—play fiendish wordgames on Joe Gass's website
• Q Game*—push marbles into goals on Puzzle Perfect site
• Quzzle*—sliding blocks by Jim Lewis, play on Puzzleword site
• SquareMatch*—match colored squares on Toby Gottfried's site
• Squares*—match up fish on a brilliant Danish site; may require log-in
• Tetrapentos—form hundreds of figures on Thérèse Eveilleau's French math site
• U.S. Map*—place the states on the Sheppard Software site
• Wanna Play?—a very sneaky Links Maze Puzzle

Some of these games may require your browser to have Java enabled. For Microsoft Internet Explorer, click Tools > Internet Options > Advanced, then scroll down to 'JIT Enabled' and check the check-box. If you still get a blank, download the latest Java plug-in.

• Big-Game Hunt—find the mistakes
• Ten-Yen 3-layer problem—the search for more shapes
• The 25 Holes Challenge—you could win a silver dollar
• Vee-21 three-color problem—the search for more solutions

• Publications of interest
• Game and puzzle catalogs
• Game and puzzle sites
• The game of ideas

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