Here’s a new category in the Compendium Of Games section: Numbers. And to start off this month, here’s the ever-popular Sudoku puzzle, set to ‘expert’. Can you beat it? Sudoku is a number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine
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This crossword is ideal as an educational tool. I’ve made the clues easy so that the answers can be found on the Internet. This crossword has 58 relatively unknown Scottish castles and some of them will give you an insight about the turbulent history of Scotland. There are over 250 castles in Scotland. Some of
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Two jigsaws to download free this month! One is a traditional jigsaw and the other is a video jigsaw. Both are showing The Falls Of Shin. The Falls Of Shin – Waterfalls and Salmon Leap Located at Sutherland between Bonar Bridge and Lairg to the north of Inverness, this beautiful waterfall not only has lovely
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I have permission from the band to post a video jigsaw of their track DIY, an excellent video. As with all my jigsaws, you can post this to your friends, I’m sure they will enjoy ABCQ’s music. Can you complete the jigsaw before the music stops for the first time? (The video repeats itself). It’s
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Here’s a nice jigsaw – Rothesay in the Isle Of Bute, Scotland. You can download this jigsaw and play it offline on your computer. No special program is needed. This jigsaw has 221 pieces, and it can be quite tricky. – I have added a text file with instructions within the zip file. Always scan
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Here’s a puzzle you can download and send to your printer. (I’ll set up online puzzles like these later.) Try to find all the Scottish place names, horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Post a message with the number of place names you have found. Good luck. Just right click on the image below and select Save
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On peering through the rusting green railings into the gloomy chamber, I could just make out the figure of a statue in the fading light of the overcast sky…..I set my digital camera to night mode and gingerly put the camera through the railings. I had no way of telling if the statue was in
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Here’s a busy wee jigsaw. The photo of Buchanan Street Glasgow was taken in September 2011 and shows the old Buchanan Hotel being pulled down to make way for an extension to the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre. You can download this jigsaw and play it offline on your computer. No special program is needed. This
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This is only a very small section of the Doulton Fountain, which is located opposite the People’s Palace, on the Glasgow Green. You can download this jigsaw and play it offline on your computer. No special program is needed. Sorry, it will only work on Windows platforms. This jigsaw has 304 pieces, and it can
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Here’s a jigsaw that may be a bit of a challenge. You can download this jigsaw and play it offline on your computer. No special program is needed. Sorry – MS Windows only This jigsaw has 315 pieces, and it can be quite tricky. – I have added a text file with instructions within the
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