Solving Puzzles
At our home, we have lots of puzzles. We have cheap puzzles from the dollar store, where pieces will "fit" in more than one place, so you have to make sure the colors and lines match as well as the bumps and gaps on the pieces, and sometimes that is really hard, and you aren't sure that a piece goes where it goes until you have all the pieces that fit in around it. We have children's puzzles that are so simple that we have literally attempted to do put them together blindfolded - and made progress! We have puzzles with pieces that are 9" across, and puzzles with pieces that are only about 3/4" across. We have puzzles with fully interlocking pieces, and other puzzles that are not so interlocking. We have a children's puzzle that consists of sixteen blocks, with six solutions - based on which side of the blocks is showing. That one is fun to use as a slide puzzle, by simply removing one of the blocks and trying to slide the other blocks in their base u...