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Numberlink Puzzles

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I first encountered Numberlink puzzles in the (numberless) Flow Free app and appreciated them because they were a little more topological than the typical logic puzzle.

Knot Theory Puzzles

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At the Joint Math Meetings, some folks from the VCU Breakthroughs team presented some activities on knots using a silicone necklace manipulative. Today we'll look at a set of puzzles inspired by that.

Picture Frames and Loops

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Here we'll look at some topological puzzles originally cast in terms of hanging a picture frame.