Stenzzles Dog

Solve eight challenges to make eight different dogs using eight templates.

To solve the eight challenges in Stenzzles Dog will require a combination of logic, problem solving, visual perceptual skills and hand skills. The goal is to look at a 2D puzzle challenge in the booklet and recreate it by stacking the 8 puzzle cards on top of each other. It may take a bit of trial and error to figure out how to flip, rotate and then layer all eight cards into the correct order to solve the challenge.

The card layers are all the same size, each one has a different dog on the cut-out and each one is a different color (see the eight cards fanned in the image above). Each card may be oriented in any of eight ways: four directions and two sides.

The  puzzle challenges are printed in a booklet. Each challenge will be presented as a finished pattern. Puzzle solutions are printed in the back of the book.The arrows in the solution will tell you which direction each colored card is facing and the solid and outlined arrows will indicate front or back of each card.

L: Puzzles.                                                              R: Solutions.

To solve a challenge, try one card in each of the four orientations on the front of each card until the color on the stack looks like the color position on the challenge. If nothing looks right, flip the card to the back and try the four orientations on the back. Good for those who like a challenge and don't frustrate easily. This puzzle is available in a variety of themes. 

If you would like to read more about one-person logic puzzles, check out my post What's in Your Therapy Box? Logic Puzzles Edition. 

Try this:

• For a beginner, lay all of the plastic layers in the correct order and orientation and let him assemble.
• Increase the difficulty by giving the plastic layers in the correct order, but not the correct orientation.
• Give consistent verbal cues such as "turn one quarter turn to the right", "rotate counter-clockwise 90 degrees" or "flip".
• Work on spatial relations, visual discrimination, figure ground, visual closure, visual form constancy, executive functioning skills, process skills, manual dexterity, in-hand manipulation, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the box: 8 card layers, black background layer, puzzle booklet with 8 challenges and solutions, puzzle stand 

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