What is missing in most curricula? From elementary school all the way through to university education it’s just coursework focused on the development of problem-solving skills.

Most students never learn how to think about solving problems. Besides being a lot of fun, a puzzle-based learning approach also does a remarkable job of convincing students that: - science is useful and interesting, - the basic courses they take are relevant, - mathematics is not that scary (no need to hate it), and - it is worthwhile to stay in school, get a degree, and move into the real world which is loaded with interesting problems [Read More...]

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Homeowner Dave Mackie, age 49, is trying to beat the property slump by becoming the first person in Britain to raffle his house in a Sudoku competition.

Anxious to emigrate, Dave is offering his £675,000 three-bedroom home in Hambleton near Blackpool, as top prize in an online contest after deciding to emigrate to Egypt

He hopes to get 14,000 people to each pay £50 to enter and solve the Sudoku puzzle. By this he hopes that the potential £700,000 raised will cover the £675,000 cost of the property as well as the £25,000 legal and [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzles

Today January 29th in the United States of America the National Puzzle Day is celebrated.

Today you can do an extra puzzle or try to make one of your own. - At Passion For Puzzles you can find some online puzzle games, or via our puzzle weblog you can find hundreds of great online puzzle games for free. - Puzzles.com as they say “The world’s best resource for puzzling on the internet”.

Happy Puzzling Today !

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WordClash is a mutli player version from the same author of WordConnect.

WordClash is a puzzle word game similar to the classic game Tetris. Some have called it a hybrid between Tetris and scrabble. Object is to place the falling letters to form a word horizontally or vertically. Each word that you form, the letters in that word will be sent to the other player you are playing against. You win if you find all the words in the word list found in the middle of the screen, or if the other player reaches the top [Read More...]

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Push Box is a nice online puzzle game by Fupa.

Object is to guide the boxes over the orange circles. Once each box covers each of the orange circles the level is complete. Plan your moves carefully to avoid blocking yourself in and unable to move the boxes. Happy Puzzling!

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Switchit (Aka Flicker) is a Lights Out puzzle game variant by Kwikgames.

Use your mouse to switch of all the lights. Clicking a switch will toggle not only the switch you click but also the ones next to it. The levels get tougher as you progress. Switch more than 100 times on a level, or take over five minutes and it’s game over.

There are 30 puzzling levels to solve. Happy Puzzling!

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Now you can play the same crossword puzzles published daily in The New York Times (NYT) on your BlackBerry.

With NYT Crosswords Daily, you can play the same puzzles that are published in the NYT. Subscribers get the daily NYT crossword puzzles as well as other features including live leader boards for solving times. Also includes access to over 4,000 archived puzzles, up to 30 classic puzzles and the latest news headlines from NYTimes.com.

NYT Crosswords Daily is a subscription product. You will [Read More...]

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