Family Pages (3) puzzles
- ‘Visual Ellipsis’ – how to make a picture without drawing the main item.
My wife is a wonderful artist, and art teacher. I am not. How to draw without technique or ability? Good cartoons need talent. But BAD cartoons are quick and easy.
Here are a few favourites. The first ones are titled, the rest have to be titled by you. Rules: as few lines as possible; see the subject from an unusual angle; let the imagination fill in the detail; get a theme going.
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1 A square
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2 Something that looks square
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5 Bear climbing a tree
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6 Pig going round a barn
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9 Mexican riding a bike
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13 Sunrise, without my spectacles on
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17 St Basil’s, seen by a bird
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18 Red Square, seen by Malevich
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How many triangles are there in this shape?
(Hints: not all the same size; seven different sorts can be found)
- Sudoku. Hard (not very)
Answers to all puzzles will be printed in the March issue of Passport magazine, or on the Passport page of: www.englishedmoscow.com
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