When I started sharing Catriona Shearer’s puzzles with my younger son I was excited for him try out the challenges and hopefully learn a bit from the twitter threads. I also hoped that seeing some of the clever solutions might inspired him to come of with a clever solution of his own. Tonight was that night!
Here’s the puzzle we looked at:
Here’s his solution which thrilled me!
After he gave his solution we looked at the twitter thread for the puzzle and he like the solution from our friend Steve Phelps:
Here’s what he had to say about Steven’s animation which he thinks is “very cool”:
This was a really fun project – I was happy to see the creativity in my son’s solution.
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