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Brain Teaser – Doll prices

Brain Teaser – Doll prices...

Karli Jo has two dolls. One of the dolls is very expensive and costs $100 more than her second doll. Altogether, both dolls cost $101. How much does each of the dolls cost individually? ANSWER: The expensive doll is $100.50 while the cheaper doll is just...
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Brain Teaser – Pennies a day

Brain Teaser – Pennies a day...

Would you rather have five million dollars all at once or have someone give you one penny today and then double the number of pennies that you have each day for just 30 days? ANSWER: The mathematical formula for this is the starting amount (s) times the rate (r) raised to the power of the number of days (d). The formula looks like s*r^d. In this case it would be .01*2^30 which equals: $10,737,418.24. Over $10 million to...
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Create your Own Maze – Maze Generator

Create your Own Maze – Maze Generator...

Do your kids like to do mazes? Fill your next road trip with a bunch of a-maze-ing fun by creating your own mazes for them. Use the tool below to generate the maze that fits your needs. You must have frames enabled for this. Or, you can go to our Maze...
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Reversal Word Game

Reversal Word Game...

Reversal (or Reverse-It) is a fun little word game that you can change and adapt with every different game. Instructions: You need at least two players for this game. You will play two rounds. ROUND 1: You will choose a topic for this round. It could be names of people you know, names of places, names of famous people, names of foods, etc. The object of Round 1 is to find a correct word or two words (eg. For names:...
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Brain Teaser – North Pole Blindfold

Brain Teaser – North Pole Blindfold...

Your latest road trip has taken you to the North Pole.  You get out and put on a blindfold.  You spin around two times.  Then you take 10 steps forward.  Finally you turn 90 degrees to the left.  What do you see? ANSWER: You don’t see anything because you are...
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Math Pattern Puzzle 20100502

Math Pattern Puzzle 20100502...

What is the next number in the series of numbers below: 1, 4, 16, 64, 256, ? ANSWER: 1,024. These are all exponents of the number...
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Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser

Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser...

Dihydrogen monoxide is and chemical compound that can kill you if you ingest too much of it, corrode metals, dissolve some solids, is part of acid rain, and is used by many industrial chemical plants. However, it is also a very important ingredient to most soda pops. How can this be? ANSWER: Dihydrogen monoxide is the chemical name for H2O – what we call...
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Kitchen Teaser – Dry Spaghetti

Kitchen Teaser – Dry Spaghetti...

How would it be possible to make a straight piece of dry spaghetti into a circular piece of dry spaghetti without breaking the pasta? ANSWER: Cook the spaghetti first, form it into a circle, then dry it...
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Math Teaser – Labeled Cans

Math Teaser – Labeled Cans...

Aliece is packing up a bunch of cans for the family camping trip. When she comes to the last few cans in the pantry, she notices that the labels have fallen off of four of the cans in the pantry. The four labels are all different. If Aliece were to glue the labels on to the cans at random, what is the probability that she will put the correct labels on only three of the four cans? ANSWER: There is zero possibility.  If...
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Quotebox Activity – Part of the Utah State Song

Quotebox Activity – Part of the Utah State S...

The following quote box puzzle is an excerpt from the Utah State Song. To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column — not necessarily in the order in which they appear — into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation that reads from left to right, line by line. Black squares indicate ends of words (spaces). ...
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Rebus Teaser #3

Rebus Teaser #3...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Top...
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Too many candy bars

Too many candy bars...

On a long road trip your parents pass back a bucket of 23 candy bars for all of the passengers. You take seven of the candy bars. Before you pass it on to your sister, you decide that you want a few more so you take half of what’s left in the bucket. You start to feel guilty right away, so you put back one third of the candy bars that you had taken out of the bucket. How many candy bars are now in the...
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Rebus Teaser #2...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Peace on...
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Crytogram Puzzle – Brigham Young Quote

Crytogram Puzzle – Brigham Young Quote...

The section below contains a secret phrase.  Each of the blanks has a number underneath it.  Fill in the letters that correspond to the numbers below the blanks to solve the phrase. At the bottom of the page there is a KEY that lists all the letters from A thru Z with a box below.  Each of the letters has a corresponding number to help you keep track of the coded letters that you have...
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Create your own Anagrams!

Create your own Anagrams!...

My kids love to do anagrams while on our family car trips. The road trip goes much better when the kids have a pencil and paper in hand working on unscrambling the letters to make real words. You can easily create your own anagrams by typing a list of words in the box below. The words can be separated by a space or a new line. Create your own...
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Utah Stereogram – A City in Utah

Utah Stereogram – A City in Utah...

A stereogram is a two-dimensional picture that has a 3-D image hidden in it. To find the hidden image you must turn the picture lengthwise and then focus your eyes through the paper. Pretend that you are looking through the page to the distant background. This causes you to switch from “near point” to “far point” vision and will allow the hidden image to come into view. Some useful steps that are...
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Rebus Teaser #1

Rebus Teaser #1...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Over the river and through the...
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Winter Terms Crossword

Winter Terms Crossword...

Across 3. When a wind storm hits and carries the snow with it so that it is all over in the air. It makes it hard to see outside. 6. Not hot 8. These things are worn on the hand. 9. You will often build one of these when you get a lot of sticky snow in a day 11. Solid water 13. Grandma’s often knit these so that you can wear them to keep you warm 14. You wear this over your shirt to keep you ward while outside Down 1....
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New Suitcases

New Suitcases...

Each child was told they could buy a suitcase of the color of their choosing.  However, they were told that there could be no duplicate colors of suit cases.  Each one selected their suitcase. Use the clues below to try to figure out what suitcase belongs to each child. Here are your clues: Chloe didn’t choose Yellow because it could get dirty easily. Jace & Avary wanted a red suitcase as their second choice, but...
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Who Brought What?

Who Brought What?...

Each child was told they could bring one item on their winter Road Trip. The following items ended up on the floor of the car: A backpack of stuffed animals, a coloring book, a handheld video game device, and a box of crackers. Use the clues below to try to figure out what child brought each item. Here are your clues: Aylee can’t draw on her item Aylee, John & Alayna were complaining because they had nothing to eat...
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Quote Boxes

Quote Boxes...

Quote boxes are fun little puzzles that take all of the letters in a quote that you provide and it lines them up into a table. The letters in each column of the table are then mixed up so that you have to decode them. To generate a quote box puzzle, just type in a short quote in the box below. We will do the rest. You can print out your puzzle and give them to the kids on your next family trip! Please note —...
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