Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Contents
Introduction ................................... 3 Number Search ..............................4 Word Search .................................26 Crossword ......................................48 Number Crossword .......................68 Sudoku ...........................................88 Answers .......................................110
Fun Beginning Puzzles for Kids, Book 1: Crossword, Word and Number Search, Sudoku Published by BNG Publishing 2008 All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. www.bngpublishing.com ISBN-13: 978-0-9797882-0-8 ISBN: 0-9797882-0-X
First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Introduction
Fun Beginning Puzzles for Kids, Book 1 is the perfect puzzle book to get kids interested in working popular puzzles. Besides being fun, puzzles help to improve math skills, vocabulary, fine motor skills, patience and concentration. The puzzles in this book are not designed to be difficult. Older children should be able to read and solve most puzzles without difficulty, while younger children may need the assistance of an adult to read and write in answers. Regardless of age these beginning puzzles will instill a sense of achievement when completed. Research confirms the benefits of reading and playing with young children. These puzzles are designed to provide another source of fun, meaningful, educational instruction.
6 0 2 7 6 4
3 2 3 5 8 8
2 5 3 9 2 5
8 2 7 2 9 0
4 0 6 8 2 1
9 3 7 7 3 6
2 8 0 1 0 3
7 5 6 5 8 6
2 4 8 7 6 5
6 2 7 2 9 1
0 2 5 5 3 3
6 1 0 3 1 8
9 7 0 1 0 1
7 5 1 6 8 6
2 3 8 7 6 5
9 2 7 9 9 4
0 7 5 7 3 8
7 2 9 9 1 9
1 9 2 7 5 2
9 9 4 5 5 3
2 6 8 1 1 5
7 2 2 8 5 7
2 5 5 7 7 0
8 1 0 5 8 8
1 9 2 9 7 3 5 3 4
3 0 5 7 7 5 7 5 6
5 7 4 8 2 4 8 5 3
4 8 3 9 3 5 4 6 1
2 6 1 0 8 9 6 7 0
7 8 7 5 6 0 2 9 9
8 4 6 3 3 7 2 7 4
5 6 5 5 1 9 1 9 5
5 3 3 6 4 6 4 3 3
23
8 7 5 4 9 4 2 5 8
4 0 7 8 7 2 3 2 2
6 4 4 8 0 5 2 9 8
5 5 9 6 6 4 5 8 4
3 6 3 8 8 7 6 2 8
2 2 3 5 8 8 4 9 3
8 1 5 7 5 9 8 1 5
9 8 6 4 3 7 7 9 3
6 8 4 2 1 3 3 1 3
8 5 8 8 1 4 3 4 7
2 3 6 0 8 9 2 8 5
3 1 3 6 6 3 6 4 9
5 2 8 9 9 3 6 1 0
6 6 3 5 4 2 3 5 4
4 4 6 3 3 6 9 1 2
7 7 1 6 7 4 5 1 6
8 0 9 7 6 8 2 9 5
4 5 4 3 8 4 5 4 8
25
26
A V N B A T
C S J R I Y
T A X E A P
W T Z C D A
M A N O A T
Q J A M D K
27
C A P K T A
A B B T A H
T A G W P A
G Z M O N M
M Q A B A G
R A T P M I
28
A M E N B X
E J N T E N
G N I Y D Q
G P W P E P
R L S E M Y
P E T G E T
29
T I P J A L
O P H S F I
U I I K I D
B G N M X V
I W K D I G
B L I Q N U
30
45
46
47
3.
Practice Puzzle In the practice puzzle shown on the right, you are given a partially completed crossword puzzle. The answer to 1 ACROSS has already been completed. BIRD is the answer to the clue, An animal that flies. Numbers 2, 3, and 4 DOWN have also been answered and entered into the puzzle. Answer the remaining clues to complete the puzzle. When you are finished or if you get stuck, you can check your solution on page 124. Have fun!
48
10
C 7 A K E
5 8 9
B I R D C A 6 D E
ACROSS 1. An animal that flies 5. You make a sandwich with two pieces of this 7. You breathe this 9. Chickens lay these 10. The number before two DOWN 2. Frozen water 3. Another word for father 4. You serve it at birthday parties 6. The opposite of left 8. Tomatoes are this color
49
Crossword - Puzzle 1
2 3 5 8 6 7 9 4
ACROSS 1. You sleep in this 2. An animal that barks 3. Nemo is one 6. This animal says meow 8. Something that you read 9. The number after seven DOWN 1. The opposite of small 2. An animal that says quack 4. You wear this on your head 5. An animal that says moo 7. The number of toes you have
Crossword - Puzzle 2
1 2 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 3
11
ACROSS 2. Number of states in the United States 5. The colors of the American flag are red, white, and _____ 6. This color traffic light means go 8. _____ the Explorer (TV character) 11. Use this to talk and eat with DOWN 1. Put this on your foot 2. The number after four 3. The color of Big Bird 4. What a puppy becomes 7. Number of legs a spider has 9. Rain, rain, go ____ 10. He is the king of the jungle
Crossword - Puzzle 3
1
4 5 7 8 9 6
10
ACROSS 1. Musical instrument with black and white keys you play with your hands 4. Points of light in the night sky 5. Third planet from the sun 7. Snow White & the _____ Dwarfs 9. Family member 10. When you move to music DOWN 1. Clothes you wear over your legs 2. Very large mammal that lives in the ocean 3. You smell with this 6. Top of the house The solution 7. What a plant develops from to this puzzle 8. The number after eight is on page 125. 52
Crossword - Puzzle 12
ACROSS 2. The opposite of remember 4. The day before Tuesday 5. A sticky strip for holding things together 7. Part of the body where food is digested 9. The number of toes on both feet 10. There are twelve months in a ____ 12. You wear this to protect your head 14. You do this before swallowing 19. A part of a fish 20. The part of your body that has fingers 21. A soft floor covering 22. The opposite of begin 23. Hickory Dickory Dock, The Mouse Ran Up the ____ DOWN 1. The month before June 3. Halloween is in this month 4. Working with numbers 6. A nice word to use when you ask for something 8. The shape of a coin 11. An animal that has big ears and a trunk 12. Very, very big 13. The sixteenth president Abraham _______ , also on the penny 15. The first presidents last name, George ___________ 16. Use this to carry school supplies and personal items 17. The opposite of on 18. The short form of rhinoceros
66
1 4
9 10 11
12
13
14
15
16 17
18 20 21 22 23
19
67
3.
Practice Puzzle In the practice puzzle shown on the right, you are given a partially completed crossnumber puzzle. The answer to 3 ACROSS has already been completed. 380 is the answer to the clue Three hundred and eighty. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 DOWN have also been answered and entered into the grid. Use the partially completed grid to complete the rest of the puzzle. When you are finished, or if you get stuck, you can check your solution on page 130. Have fun!
68
5 5 1
6 8
3 3 3 8 0 4 7 0 0
7 1 0 0
ACROSS 3. Three hundred and eighty 5. One hundred and ten 7. 50 + 50 8. 1000 + 1000 DOWN 1. 20 + 10 2. 7000 + 100 3. Three thousand four hundred 4. Fifty-one 6. Twelve 7. 5 + 5
69
Crossnumber - Puzzle 1
1 4 5
6 7
ACROSS 2. Forty-eight 4. One hundred and three 6. Seventeen 7. Two thousand DOWN 1. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 3. 8000 + 300 + 10 4. 8 + 8 5. Three hundred and eighty 7. 7 + 7 + 7
Crossnumber - Puzzle 2
2 4
5 6
ACROSS 1. 80 + 5 4. 300 + 300 5. Eighty 6. 25 + 25 + 25 + 25 7. 9000 + 276 DOWN 2. Five hundred and sixty 3. Three thousand 5. Eighty-one 6. 100 + 22 8. 30 + 30
Crossnumber - Puzzle 3
3 7
5 8 9
6 10
ACROSS 1. 200 + 5 4. One thousand and one 7. Six hundred and thirty-three 8. 2000 + 200 + 0 + 1 DOWN 2. Five hundred and thirty 3. 12 + 12 + 12 4. One hundred and thirty-four 5. 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 6. 10 + 10 + 10 9. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 10. Fourteen
Crossnumber - Puzzle 11
ACROSS 1. 10000 + 900 + 80 + 2 4. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 5. 24 - 3 6. 2 x 6 7. 350 - 10 9. 200 + 200 + 200 10. 10 x 4 11. 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 13. Twelve thousand two hundred and fifty-two 15. 20 - 3 16. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 17. 30 x 10 DOWN 1. 26 - 10 2. 8010 + 200 3. Twenty-one 4. 3 x 4 6. 1950 - 20 7. 100 + 100 + 100 8. 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 9. Sixty-eight 10. Four hundred and ninty-two 12. 5 x 7 13. 11 x 1 14. Two thousand and thirty-two 15. 5 x 3 16. 100 + 100 + 100
84
1 4 6 7 9 10 12 13 14 16 17 11 8
2 5
15
85
Crossnumber - Puzzle 12
ACROSS 4. 4000 + 500 + 60 5. 12000 + 400 + 20 + 1 7. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 8. 1 x 20 9. Eleven thousand and six hundred 12. 780 - 80 13. 8054 + 120 15. 5 + 5 + 5 16. 44 + 9 17. Fifty-one 19. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 21. 12 + 12 + 12 22. 2200 - 200 DOWN 1. Six thousand four hundred and five 2. Ten thousand and fifty 3. 8 + 8 + 8 5. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 6. Fifteen thousand and two hundred 7. 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 8. Two hundred and one 9. Seventeen 10. 99 + 2 11. 6000 + 50 + 5 14. Four thousand five hundred and twenty-two 18. 1002 + 94 20. 500 + 50 21. Thirty
86
1 4
2 5
3 6
7 8 9 12 13 14 16 15 17 18 10 11
19
20 21
22
87
88
Columns
3x3 Blocks
contain the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. There cannot be any duplicate numbers in a 3x3 block. In the sample Sudoku puzzle to the right, the shaded square in the upper left-hand region shows the numbers 6, 5, 3, 4, 9, 7, 8, and 1. By using the rule that no number can repeat within a 3x3 block, the only possible solution to the empty square is 2. Enter a 2 into this empty square. You did it! You solved a sudoku puzzle. The puzzles in this section will start out very basic and get progressively more difficult. Have fun!
89
Sudoku- Puzzle 1
4 8 3 5 6 4 2 1 7 6 3 1 2 7 9 8
7 5 6 3 2 1 9 4 8
8 6 9 1 5 7 3 2
5 4
1 2 4 6 7 3 8 9 5
3 9 5 8 4 2 6
6 7
7 4 8 9 1 5 6
1 2 3 6 7 8 9
9 1 5 4 3
90
Sudoku- Puzzle 2
2 8 3 6 4 1 9 1 7 2 9 3 6 4 7 8
4 9 6 5 8 7 2 1
3 4 9 7 1
1 6 2 9
7 5
9 3 5
6 2
1 3 5 6 4
4 6
1 2 4
7 9 1 3 5
5 5 6 2 8 7 4
2 3 9 1
8 6
2 9
91
Sudoku- Puzzle 3
1 3
7 5 4
9 8 6 1 5
4 7 2
3 1 5 7
5 9 1 2 4 6 8 7 9 5 6 4 3 8
8 4 3 1 7 9 5 7 2 6 8 4
7 3 9 5 2
6 3
2 8
9 1 3 2 3 2 7
5 1 8 6 9
7 3
92
Sudoku- Puzzle 18
5 9 4 3 8 3 2 3 4 5 7 1 6 2 5 9
2 2 5 7 6 3 8 4 1 4
3 8 6 4
9 4 9 1
4 1
6 1 3 5
3 8 7
107
Sudoku- Puzzle 19
2 5 7 9 6 5 3 6 7 1 9 4 5 8 1 6 2
7 3 8 3
5 6
2 3 9
5 3
1 7 6 6
8 4 5 7
5 4
108
Sudoku- Puzzle 20
7 4 3 2 3 5 5 8 7 9 6 1 8 2
1 8 4
5 7 1 9 8
4 3 7 8 1 5 8 4 8 1 9 7 2 1 3 9 6
2 1 6 9 4
109
9 7 3 5 3 4
8 7 5 4 9 4 2 5 8
4 0 7 8 7 2 3 2 2
6 4 4 8 0 5 2 9 8
5 5 9 6 6 4 5 8 4
3 6 3 8 8 7 6 2 8
2 2 3 5 8 8 4 9 3
8 1 5 7 5 9 8 1 5
9 8 6 4 3 7 7 9 3
8 1 4 3 4 7
116
M G E S B D G E M I C E S X
F I V
E W U N G H Z N O T E R Q S V X E O E P F O F G P O L E H P C E S B O N E S N Q V O T E P E R Q K L E Z S H G F E A D U N E U F F U B Q I
O M M O X V L O F R S Q H U B X
W Q C O M L O P
E W H I C O
Z J H Q L M U T E
T U N E E Z S E F
V N Y D K M E D V
T E C U B E K H M
U R V K R D P U R
B Y B E C X F G O
E O X Q R U L E P
O M R V C X
123
Crossword Solutions
B I R D C A C B R E A D A I R I K E G G S O N E D H T
D U C C B O O K W
B E D I O G F I S H A T A E I G H T N
D O G R L I M O N
S F I F T Y H I E O V B L U E E E N L I D O R A G W W H A U T H Y
124
Crossword Solutions
P I A N A N W T H S T A R L E V E N I N A N C E O N O S E A R T H O M O M F
S E E D
C U B O D O K G A R I E E E S N
C C L U E S
A T O R W M O B V E V E N U S
J I L L C E E G O C R S H B E L T A A A N H A M R E D A T E E T H
125
Crossword Solutions
M O N A T A P H L T E A S H E U G E
M F D A Y Y E S T N
L I N C O R L H A N I E N D O C
O R G E T C T O M A C H B I E R Y E A R C L L M E T C H E W P A H B S A A O H N C F I T K F I N D P G C A R P E T C O L O C K N
129
Crossnumber Solutions
3 3 8 0 5 4 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 7 1 0 0
2 4 8 1 0 3 3 6 8 1 7 2 0 0 0 1
8 5 3 6 0 0 8 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 9 2 7 6 0
2 0 5 3 3 1 0 0 1 3 6 3 3 2 2 0 1 4 0 4
130
Crossnumber Solutions
1 6 6 1 4 5 5 4 5 6 8 2 0 8 2 0 8 0 3 4 7 4 5 3 0 2 0 1 7 0 2 0 7 8 3 1 1 3 6 1 0 1 6 5
5 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 5 4
1 9 3 4 0 9 1 2 2 1
1 0 1 6 2 3 6 0 8 0 3 5 2 0 3 0 2
9 8 2 2 1 1 4 0 0
1 7 3 5 0 0
6 1 4 5 6 0 0 0 5 5 2 0 0 8 1 7 4 5 2 2
2 1 2 4 2 1 8 5 1 2 1 1 6 0 0 7 0 0 0 1 5 3 5 1 0 5 9 5 3 6 2 0 0 0
133
Sudoku Solutions
1 7 5 9 2 4 5 3 8 7 1 6 6 7 8 9 1 5 4 3 2 5 1 7 2 9 3 6 4 8 4 9 6 5 8 7 2 1 3 3 4 9 7 1 8 5 6 2 1 6 2 9 3 5 8 7 4 7 5 8 4 6 2 3 9 1 9 3 5 1 2 4 7 8 6 8 7 1 3 5 6 4 2 9 6 2 4 8 7 9 1 3 5 8 6 3 1 7 2 4 5 9 3 9 7 4 8 5 1 6 2 5 1 2 7 9 6 8 3 4 4 8 6 3 2 1 9 7 5 2 3 1 8 5 9 6 4 7 7 4 9 6 1 3 5 2 8 6 5 8 2 4 7 3 9 1
9 6 4 2 8 3
9 8 3 5 6 4 2 1 7
4 1 2 7 9 8 5 6 3
7 5 6 3 2 1 9 4 8
8 6 9 1 5 7 3 2 4
2 3 7 4 8 9 1 5 6
5 4 1 2 3 6 7 8 9
1 2 4 6 7 3 8 9 5
3 9 5 8 4 2 6 7 1 2 8 3
6 4 1 9 5 7
134
Sudoku Solutions
6 2 8 1 3 9 5 7 2 6 8 4 6 8 9 2 5 4 3 1 7 8 2 1 9 6 5 4 7 3 5 4 3 7 2 8 1 9 6 1 5 2 4 3 6 7 8 9 6 7 8 5 1 9 3 2 4 3 9 4 8 7 2 5 6 1 2 1 7 6 5 4 9 3 8 9 3 5 2 8 1 6 4 7 4 8 6 3 9 7 2 1 5 7 5 4 6 8 9 1 3 2 9 8 6 1 5 4 3 2 7 4 7 2 9 6 3 5 1 8 3 1 5 7 2 8 4 6 9 5 9 1 2 4 6 8 7 3 2 4 3 8 1 7 9 5 6 8 6 7 3 9 5 2 4 1
4 3 1 7 9 5
4 2 6 8 1 3 7 5 9
1 3 5 9 4 7 8 6 2
8 9 7 5 6 2 1 4 3
5 1 2 6 3 9 4 7 8
3 6 4 7 8 5 9 2 1
9 7 8 4 2 1 5 3 6
2 5 3 1 7 8 6 9 4
7 4 1 3 9 6 2 8 5 7 6 9
1 4 3 8 5 2
135
Sudoku Solutions
8 6 2 4 3 9 2 1 7 6 5 8 1 7 2 9 4 5 3 8 6 8 4 1 9 3 7 5 2 6 7 2 5 6 1 8 3 4 9 1 8 4 7 2 3 6 9 5 5 9 2 8 6 1 7 3 4 3 7 6 4 5 9 2 1 8 6 1 9 3 7 4 8 5 2 4 3 7 5 8 2 9 6 1 2 5 8 1 9 6 4 7 3 5 7 1 8 6 3 9 2 4 6 9 8 3 2 4 5 7 1 7 4 3 1 5 9 8 6 2 2 1 5 7 8 6 4 3 9 9 2 7 6 3 8 1 4 5 3 5 6 9 4 1 2 8 7 1 8 4 5 7 2 3 9 6
4 9 5 7 1 3
3 8 7 4 5 1 6 2 9
2 5 9 6 8 3 7 1 4
4 1 6 2 9 7 8 3 5
6 2 1 5 3 4 9 7 8
7 4 5 8 2 9 1 6 3
9 3 8 1 7 6 5 4 2
8 9 3 7 6 2 4 5 1
5 6 4 3 1 8 2 9 7 9 6 3
2 4 5 1 8 7
140
Fun Beginning Puzzles for Kids, Book 1 is the perfect book to get young kids interested in working popular puzzles. Puzzles focus on short and long vowel sounds, beginning word blends, and logical reasoning. Designed to be easy, these beginning puzzles boost self-condence, rene motor skills, and improve concentration. Designed by a father and son team to help children discover the joys of working puzzles.