Welcome to Today’s Event

Thiagi(Sivasailam Thiagarajan)Resident Mad Scientist

The Thiagi Group

Puzzling Opportunities:

How to Use Puzzles

in Your Training Sessions

Tracy TagliatiChief Learning Officer

The Thiagi Group

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Welcome to Today’s Event

Thiagi(Sivasailam Thiagarajan)Resident Mad Scientist

The Thiagi Group

Puzzling Opportunities:

How to Use Puzzles

in Your Training Sessions

Tracy TagliatiChief Learning Officer

The Thiagi Group

NOON GOODGood Afternoon

ME QUIT

BOJACKX

CARNREATION

ARREST

YOU ARE

TIMING

TIM ING

DEILST

DCTNRY

WORL

THER

TRN

I AM YOU

PUZZLING OPPORTUNITIES

Thiagi & Tracy

OBJECTIVES

Solve different types puzzles.

Design different types of puzzles.

Integrate puzzles in your training.

REAL OBJECTIVES

Impress people with such terms as “autotelic” and “conundrum”.

Dazzle people with your ability to explain how different complex puzzles work.

WHY?

Puzzles are autotelic.

Puzzles are universal.

Puzzles are as old as humanity.

Puzzles lead to discoveries.

They have powerful potential in training.

Type in the chat box a short sentence that

captures a key point in Thiagi’s pontification.

CHUNKS

EAL K! LY

PUZ ROC S R

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PUZZLES REALLY ROCK!

APPLICATIONS

CHUNKSEXCHANGE

SERIESPUZZLE

WHAT’S NEXT?

2, 6, 10, 14, ?

4, 7, 13, ?

8, 5, 4, 9, 1, ?

APPLICATIONS

RIVER CROSSING

PUZZLE

The farmer is standing on the bank of a river with a goat, a

wolf, and a cabbage. He has a boat that can carry only one these three items besides

himself.

How does the farmer take everything to the other side?

APPLICATIONS

DOUBLETS

HARD to EASY

Transform the word “HARD” to “EASY” one letter at a time. All intermediate steps should be real English words.

HARD to EASY

HARD

HART

HAST

EAST

EASY

WORK to PLAY

Transform the word “WORK” to “PLAY,” one letter at a time.

WORK to PLAYFORK

FORM

FOAM

FLAM

FLAY

APPLICATIONS

TRIPLETS

What word appears before or after each of these three words

to form common phrases or compound words:

MAKERSTICK

TENNIS

APPLICATIONS

BLACK – PERTRIFIED – FIRE DOWN – GROUND – STAND

BOOK – PAD – FOOT

_ _ _

SANDWICHWORDS

What same word comes after SNOW and before HOUSE to form two unrelated common

phrases?

SNOW?

HOUSE

APPLICATIONS

TELEPORT

1- (no letter), 2 – ABC, 3 – DEF4 – GHI, 5 – JKL, 6 – MNO

7 – PRS, 8 – TUV, 9 – WXY, 0 - QZ

Something that is more important than performance:

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APPLICATIONS

TRICKQUESTION

What three commonEnglish words end with

“-gry”?

Here are three English words that end with “-

gry”:

“I am hungry”

AMPERSANDS

DIFFERENT PUZZLES

ADAM & --

-- & COSTELLO

SALT & --

-- & CHEESE

BREAKING & --

APPLICATIONS

YES - NO

YES - NO

• YES: A, E, I, Y

• NO: B, C, D, U

• YES or NO: W ?

APPLICATIONS

Type the namesof as many different puzzles as you can.

CRYPTICCLUSTERS

YZF FOZ JUKZH CZNQY!

YZF FOZ JUKZH CZNQY!LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

DIFFERENT PUZZLES

DWNUE'I KWNL

QUCIFM OWRRBL

KDGIIMGDT OWRRBL

MGDT ILFDKA

IWTGEW

KAWJEI

KDXOHGCDFV

APPLICATIONS

OBJECTIVES

Solve different types puzzles.

Design different types of puzzles.

Integrate puzzles in your training.