Do you know someone who wastes his or her time solving Sudoku puzzles? (Could that be you?) * Attend this session to discover how the addictive and motivating aspects of puzzles can be leveraged to reinforce the learning-and-transfer process before, during, and after your training workshop. * Learn how to design and use instructional puzzles to train your participants and to assess their competencies. * Explore the instructional use of crossword puzzles, word puzzles, cryptograms, chunks, anagrams, triplets, logic puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, wire puzzles, and Sudoku puzzles. * Leave the session with a how-to handout, online tools, and a daily dose of instructional puzzles through Twitter. This is the first of 12 monthly webinars. Check this link periodically to register for additional sessions in this series as they are scheduled: http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com./topics/group/31

1. 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 Tagliati Chief Learning Officer The Thiagi Group

3. 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 Tagliati Chief Learning Officer The Thiagi Group

4. NOON GOOD Good Afternoon

5. ME QUIT

6. BOJACKX

7. CARNREATION

8. ARREST YOU ARE

9. TIMING TIM ING

10. DEILST

11. DCTNRY

12. WORL

13. THER

14. TRN

15. I AM YOU

16. PUZZLING OPPORTUNITIES Thiagi & Tracy

20. Type in the chat box a short sentence that captures a key point in Thiagi’s pontification.

21. CHUNKS

24. APPLICATIONS

25. CHUNKS EXCHANGE

26. SERIES PUZZLE

28. APPLICATIONS

29. RIVER CROSSING PUZZLE

30. 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?

31. APPLICATIONS

32. DOUBLETS

37. APPLICATIONS

38. TRIPLETS

39. What word appears before or after each of these three words to form common phrases or compound words: MAKER STICK TENNIS

40. APPLICATIONS

41. BLACK – PERTRIFIED – FIRE DOWN – GROUND – STAND BOOK – PAD – FOOT _ _ _

42. SANDWICH WORDS

43. What same word comes after SNOW and before HOUSE to form two unrelated common phrases? SNOW ? HOUSE

44. APPLICATIONS

45. TELEPORT

46. 1- (no letter), 2 – ABC, 3 – DEF 4 – GHI, 5 – JKL, 6 – MNO 7 – PRS, 8 – TUV, 9 – WXY, 0 - QZ Something that is more important than performance: 22266751746368

47. APPLICATIONS

48. TRICK QUESTION

49. What three common English words end with “-gry”?

50. Here are three English words that end with “-gry”: “I am hungry”

51. AMPERSANDS

53. APPLICATIONS

54. YES - NO

56. APPLICATIONS

57. Type the names of as many different puzzles as you can.

58. CRYPTIC CLUSTERS

59. YZF FOZ JUKZH CZNQY!

60. YZF FOZ JUKZH CZNQY! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

62. APPLICATIONS