Connections Activity
Title/Skill:
Wuzzle Puzzles
Connection Goal:
Personalization
Grade Level:
9-12
Time Needed:
15-20 minutes
Handouts/Materials Required:
Attached Wuzzles and answers
Summary of Activity for the Advisor:
1. Split your Connections class into groups of 3 or 4.
2. Give each group 1 sheet of Wuzzles (there are 6 sheets of Wuzzles).
3. Tell the groups to solve as many Wuzzles they can in 15 or 20 minutes (you decide) and
see which group gets the most correct.
Read/Review/Discuss/Do with students:
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What was challenging about this activity?
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Was there a leader?
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How well did your group communicate.
WUZZLE 1
WUZZLE 2
WUZZLE 3
WUZZLE 4
WUZZLE 5
WUZZLE 6
WUZZLE 7
WUZZLE 8
WUZZLE 9
WUZZLE 10
WUZZLE 11
WUZZLE 12
WUZZLE 13
WUZZLE 14
WUZZLE 15
WUZZLE 16
WUZZLE 17
WUZZLE 18
WUZZLE #1
1. Falling Temperature
2. Two Under Par
3. Fat Chance
4. Broken Heart
5. Hot Under the Collar
6. Head in the Sand
WUZZLE #2
1. Over my Dead Body
2. Right Under the Nose
3. See Eye to Eye
4. Looking Out for Number One
5. Be-Line
6. Home is Where the Heart Is
WUZZLE#3
1. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
2. X Marks the Spot
3. Put two and two Together
4. Just Right
5. I Before E Except After C
6. High Seas
WUZZLE#4
1. Play on Words
2. Get in Shape
3. Monkey on Your Back
4. Dr. Dolittle
5. Fooling Around
6. A Kick in the Butt
WUZZLE#5
1. Backing Up
2. Sleeping at the Wheel
3. Quarterback
4. Coffee Break
5. Identical Twins
6. Count the Ways
WUZZLE#6
1. No one to Blame
2. Right between the eyes
3. Jack in the Box
4. Down Payment
5. Left Overs
6. Bedspread
WUZZLE#7
1. Cry all the way to the bank
2. The stakes are high
3. That's too bad
4. Eyes in the back of my head
5. Miniskirt
6. All in All
WUZZLE#8
1. Last Dance
2. For Crying Out Loud
3. Inground Pool
4. No TV for a Week
5. High Frequency
6. Sit Ups
WUZZLE#9
1. Foreign Policy
2. Party line
3. Covered Wagon
4. Back to the Future
5. Midwife
6. Off Sides
WUZZLE #10
1. Working Overtime
2. Do Without
3. Teddy Bear
4. Shot in the Dark
5. Eiffel Tower
6. Long Island
WUZZLE#11
1. Tulips
2. Back in five minutes
3. One Life to Live
4. First Thing in the Morning
5. Go Through the Motion
6. The Coast is Clear
WUZZLE #12
1. Better safe than sorry
2. Wheel of Fortune
3. Hard times ahead
4. Black eyed peas
5. Jumbo Jet
6. Minimize
WUZZLE #13
1. Decide
2. Spaceship
3. Multiple Choice
4. Floor Model
5. Noone Knows
6. Thunderstorm
WUZZLE #14
1. Sixth Sense
2. To Sum it Up
3. Blanket
4. Strong Undertow
5. Back Issues
6. Stretching the Truth
WUZZLE #15
1. Keeping You Out of Trouble
2. Foreign Movie
3. A Little Rough Around the Edges
4. Too Little, Too Late
5. Double Your Money Back
6. Start of Something Big
WUZZLE #16
1. One step forward, two steps back
2. Double or nothing
3. Peppermint twist
4. Forefathers
5. Enroll
6. Addresses
WUZZLE #17
1. You can count on it
2. Foot in the door
3. No can do
4. Honest to goodness
5. Way overpriced
6. Living on a shoestring
WUZZLE #18
1. Drawn to scale
2. Round of Applause
3. Splitting Hairs
4. They're all the same
5. There's no end to it
6. Different strokes for different folks