Matador Dominoes Puzzle
Yesterday, I posted a sneak peek photograph on twitter of the latest puzzle I've been working on for my classroom. It was real interesting to read people's theories close what the puzzle mightiness entail.
This is the Matador Dominoes Puzzle. I ran across this puzzle piece searching the Internet for the instructions to a encephalon teaser puzzle since I seem to accept misplaced them inward my multitude of recent classroom moves. It is featured on Rob's Puzzle Page of Pattern Puzzles. This page is seriously total of in addition to thus many awesome puzzles.
This puzzle truly caught my oculus because it would live on relatively slowly to recreate for my classroom, dissimilar most example based border matching puzzles.
I haven't had a puzzle upwards on my dry out erase board since nosotros came dorsum from Christmas Break, in addition to thus I decided to brand my ain large, magnetic version of this puzzle for my students to tackle. I recreated each foursquare of the puzzle equally a 7.5" foursquare inward Microsoft Word using domino clipart from ClipArt ETC. I used the modest version of each clipart ikon which resulted inward the domino spots beingness the slightest chip pixelated inward my file. In retrospect, I should accept used the higher res clipart images. It hasn't bothered me plenty to recreate the entire file, though.
After laminating each slice in addition to attaching a magnet to the back, I set them on my dry out erase board in addition to waited impatiently for a pupil to notice. 2d hr came in addition to went. No i noticed. third hr came in addition to went. fourth hr came in addition to went. Still, non a unmarried pupil had noticed the puzzle on the board.
fifth hr rolled around, in addition to equally students began entering the classroom. I presently heard a pupil exclaim, "There's a novel puzzle on the wall. I'm going to sweat it!" Multiple students were apace gathered at the board. They read the instructions aloud in addition to jumped in.
In nether a infinitesimal or two, the students exclaimed that the puzzle had been solved. I glanced upwards at their travel in addition to was close to congratulate them when I realized that their solution was truly NOT the solution. They had matched upwards each of the edges, only they had non formed all 7 of the double dominoes. Their solution had formed the double 4 domino twice in addition to had neglected to cast the double i domino. Frustrated, they went dorsum to work.
The puzzle remains unsolved. It looked similar this when I left for the day.
I realize that non everyone volition accept ample infinite inward their classroom for this jumbo version of the puzzle. So, I equally good resized the cards to brand a smaller gear upwards that prints 1 gear upwards per alphabetic lineament sized page in addition to fits inward a snack sized sandwich bag.
This would live on the perfect size if you lot wanted to travel the puzzle yourself or accept each pupil travel the puzzle individually at their ain desks.
Download your ain re-create of the file for this puzzle here.
This is the Matador Dominoes Puzzle. I ran across this puzzle piece searching the Internet for the instructions to a encephalon teaser puzzle since I seem to accept misplaced them inward my multitude of recent classroom moves. It is featured on Rob's Puzzle Page of Pattern Puzzles. This page is seriously total of in addition to thus many awesome puzzles.
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The aim of the puzzle is to set the half dozen pieces together inward such a means that you lot larn the 7 double dominoes from double-blank to double-six.
After laminating each slice in addition to attaching a magnet to the back, I set them on my dry out erase board in addition to waited impatiently for a pupil to notice. 2d hr came in addition to went. No i noticed. third hr came in addition to went. fourth hr came in addition to went. Still, non a unmarried pupil had noticed the puzzle on the board.
fifth hr rolled around, in addition to equally students began entering the classroom. I presently heard a pupil exclaim, "There's a novel puzzle on the wall. I'm going to sweat it!" Multiple students were apace gathered at the board. They read the instructions aloud in addition to jumped in.
In nether a infinitesimal or two, the students exclaimed that the puzzle had been solved. I glanced upwards at their travel in addition to was close to congratulate them when I realized that their solution was truly NOT the solution. They had matched upwards each of the edges, only they had non formed all 7 of the double dominoes. Their solution had formed the double 4 domino twice in addition to had neglected to cast the double i domino. Frustrated, they went dorsum to work.
The puzzle remains unsolved. It looked similar this when I left for the day.
I realize that non everyone volition accept ample infinite inward their classroom for this jumbo version of the puzzle. So, I equally good resized the cards to brand a smaller gear upwards that prints 1 gear upwards per alphabetic lineament sized page in addition to fits inward a snack sized sandwich bag.
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