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Word Circles
Challenging word puzzles that develop teamwork & thinking.
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Challenging Word Puzzles
These puzzles develop critical thinking and collaboration through strategic pattern recognition and teamwork. Word Circles are fun, yet challenging word puzzles that will test the literacy skills of your group and require cooperation and creativity to solve. The activity encourages communication, logical reasoning, and shared problem-solving as groups discover connections and arrange words into perfect circular sequences.
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Original post October 2015, last updated November 2025.
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Great for conversation starters, start of sessions and in-between sessions or down time activities as well.
Flexible as it can be done individually or as a group as well as part of a puzzle or challenge.
Thanks Mark for the starter circles and solutions, looking forward to creating some extra ones as well .. could be program/topic specific come to think of it :).
I used this activity when leading a workshop to encourage informal conversations between delegates during the registration period. It was very well received and encouraged conversations between people as they sat down at a table with other teachers they didn’t know.