ASTD 2010

Learning Activities

Puzzling Opportunities

Welcome to the Puzzling Opportunities Handout Collection. To download a handout, click its name below. All handouts are in Microsoft Word format.

Instructional Puzzles. An introduction to the concept of instructional puzzles. Advantages. Limitations. Types of puzzles.

Simulation Games with Embedded Puzzles. Detailed example of a simulation game that uses an instructional puzzle. Description of a dozen more simulation games with embedded puzzles. Advantages and disadvantages of this type of training activity.

A Dozen Uses for Crossword Puzzles. Tests. Interactive Lectures. Jolts. Web uses.

An Anthology of Instructional Puzzles. Ampersand Puzzles, Chunks, Crossword Puzzles, Cryptic Clusters, Cryptograms, Dominoes, Extra Letters, Letter Drop, List Processing, Logic Puzzle, Matchstick Puzzle, One Down Puzzles, Sandwich Words, Scrambled Graphics, Solitaire Bingo, Teleported, Trick Questions, Triplets, Twisted Pair Puzzle, Unscramble

Solutions to Instructional Puzzles. If you think you don't need feedback because you are very smart, don't download this handout. But if you want to peek at the correct answers to the puzzles in the anthology, here they are.