Participants must navigate the ball around the tarp for the longest possible period without having the ball fall through one of the holes. If the ball falls through a hole or off the side of the tarp, your team must restart the game.

I love puzzles, and I've included lots of them in this blog. They're fun challenges, perfect for sharing, and a great way to test a range of thinking skills. But they also reveal the serious professional benefits that come from learning how to think creatively.

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A drag and drop activity challenging you to arrange the digits to produce the largest possible product. These cards can be used in so many different ways, the sky is the limit! You may like to provide students with a short period of time each day and work through one card at a time, recording the answers on the included answer sheet. At the end of the month, you can answer the puzzles as a whole-class. It is organized in over 60 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited about computing.

This can be used as a great icebreaker for small groups. It also requires people to pay close attention and follow the instructions. As they continue, the moves can get more fast-paced or difficult, so they'll have to stay in sync and keep communicating to win. Have each person place a name on their forehead. Make sure that they can't see who it is. Set a timer and instruct everyone to move around the room asking different people yes or no questions until they guess correctly or time runs out. Arrange the twelve numbers on the hexagram so that the numbers in each line add up to the same total. Find more rebus challenges in this Twinkl Puzzled category. What is a good learning intention and success criteria? Puzzles get you thinking and learning in new ways. They force you to challenge the idea that there's only one way of doing things, and they train you to explore a range of options. By doing that, you develop a much richer understanding of any situation, and get your "creative juices" flowing.

Everyone on your team has to keep moving to keep the ball rolling. If someone stops, the ball will drop. This game relies on constant communication to achieve its final goal A puzzle requiring the arrangement of numbers on the function machines to link the given input numbers to the correct output. I was reminded of this when I read "The Creative Thinking Handbook," the new book from creativity guru Chris Griffiths. It's sprinkled with puzzles that illustrate the dos and don'ts of problem solving. Griffiths shows what a difference it can make when we develop a robust creative process – as individuals, teams and entire organizations. A great puzzle requiring you to use all of the cards to create a continuous red line from start to finish.