Puzzles for Adults and Children
Solvers can transfer the letters from the answers they figure out to the same-number boxes into the grid, and work back and forth to complete the puzzle. The completed puzzle looks like this:
The words in the grid read WORD THAT IS REPEATED FOUR TIMES IN THE TITLE OF A DR. SEUSS BOOK. The answer is FISH, from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
Each of these matchups is from the game RPS-101, an overly-complicated variant of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The easiest way to determine this is by identifying the pictures, then searching for a website that includes all the words. This page is the easiest way to look up the outcomes of every matchup.
The given matchups resolve like this:
The four instructions below the image can each be applied independently to select certain squares.
The selected squares form letters which spell out the answer, BITS.
The eight solutions to the feeder puzzles were ABEILLE, ACTUARY, CORRUPT, CUE BALL, LETTERS, SALTANT, SAUSAGE, and SURGERY. Each of these answers is exactly seven letters long, and solvers may notice that they share many of the same first and last letters. In fact, the words can overlap these letters to form two separate squares, which can overlap to make this eight-pointed star:
From this star, reading the intersections, colored here in green, clockwise from the L spells out the answer LAUREATE, a person who is honored for their intellectual achievement, as each of you should be. Depending on how solvers arranged the words, it may be necessary to read either clockwise or counter-clockwise, but there is only one eight-letter word to be found in these letters.
In this nonogram puzzle, many of the clues have been obscured. However, since each clue must be at least one and surrounded by white clues, the puzzle is still solvable:
The pattern of blocks within the 2×3 glitchy regions can be read as Braille letters, spelling out the answer CORRUPT.
Each of the dots in the puzzle has a clue with an answer that either is or sounds like an English letter, a Greek letter, or a number. Of those three sets, only the English letters is complete. Connecting each letter from A to Z gives the following:
At a diagonal from upper-left to lower-right, the line forms the answer LETTERS, written in cursive.
This is a simplified version of a rows garden puzzle. Across answers fit into their listed rows in order, and the white, yellow, and gold clues fit into the hexagons of their color, going either clockwise or counter-clockwise as indicated. Combining these two types of clues allows the grid to be completed as so:
The only letters which are not clued twice are the top six letters and bottom six letters. Read out, they spell the phrase FRENCH FOR BEE. The French word for bee is ABEILLE.
As suggested by the title, the pieces can be cut apart and reassembled as a puzzle:
If the grid lines are ignored, the remaining lines divide the finished puzzle into a number of irregularly-shaped regions, most of which are relatively small. However, certain letters appear when looking at the larger regions:
These letters spell out the answer, SURGERY.
Each of the lines of letters can be split into two different foods which go together – except there is one letter missing:
The missing letters spell out ANSWER IS SAUSAGE. The answer is SAUSAGE, which is a food which is made by chopping up and mixing together other foods.
Each of the coats of arms shown represents a letter in a different encoding. The ornamentation on top of each crest is a clue to the encoding used.
| Ornamentation | Encoding | Letter |
| Telegraph keys | Morse code | S |
| Boar | Pigpen cipher | A |
| Signal flags | Flag semaphore | L |
| Sherlock Holmes | Dancing men cipher | T |
| Cat in the Hat hat silhouette | Dr. Seuss’s ABC | A |
| Sailing ship | Int’l maritime signal flags | N |
| Blind Justice | Braille | T |
The letters spell out SALTANT, which is a word solvers may not be familiar with. However, looking it up reveals that it is a heraldic term referring to an animal featured in a leaping pose.