Puzzles & Diversions
The Crossword
Tap a square and type your answers right in. Numbers run Across and Down. Red letters show where something isn’t right yet.
Across
- 2. What Jack and Jill go up
- 5. The cow jumps over the ___
- 7. What Petra is — not a duck
- 8. The town where the stories take place
- 10. What frightens Miss Muffet
- 11. What Goober is nearly baked into
- 12. Matta's good friend
Down
- 1. Matta's sister
- 2. Herbert who sat upon a wall
- 3. Old ___ Cole
- 4. The animals Bo-Peep loses
- 6. Matta's pet goose
- 9. What Peter Piper sets out to buy
Wrong letters turn red as you type.
Answer Key
- Across
- 2. Hill
- 5. Moon
- 7. Goose
- 8. Westler
- 10. Spider
- 11. Pie
- 12. Anne
- Down
- 1. Lori
- 2. Humpty
- 3. King
- 4. Sheep
- 6. Petra
- 9. Rope
The Word Search
Drag across the letters to mark each name. Words hide across, down, and slantwise — forwards or back.
- Goober
- Goose
- Hill
- Humpty
- King
- Matta
- Moon
- Muffet
- Petra
- Piper
- Sheep
- Spider
- Wall
- Westler
- Willie
- Wolf
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The Goose's Maze
Trace a path from the gate to the nest without crossing a wall.
Enter at the gate, top left — the nest waits at the bottom left. Drag a line with your finger or the mouse.
Spot the Difference
Five small things changed between the two farmyard scenes. Can you find them all?
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Answer Key
- 1. A window vanished from the barn.
- 2. The sun became a cloud.
- 3. The fence grew an extra post.
- 4. The tree lost two apples.
- 5. A weathervane appeared on the roof.
Riddles & Trivia
Puzzle out each riddle, then test what you remember from the tales.
i. I am taken from a duck's cousin, yet I am no duck at all. A king himself declared my name. What am I?
Answer
A goose (Petra).
ii. The higher you climb me, the more water you may spill. What am I?
Answer
A hill.
iii. I sat up high and would not stay. All the king's men could not fix my day. Who am I?
Answer
Humpty (Herbert Humpty).
By the Book
- What is the name of the town most of the tales take place in?
Answer
Westler.
- What was Petra the goose first named before Matta renamed her?
Answer
Polly Wolly.
- Who mocks Lori in class, and gets a spider for her trouble?
Answer
Maggie Wentsfield (in the Miss Muffet tale).
Finish the Rhyme
Tap a word from the bank to drop it in the next blank. Tap a filled blank to clear it.
Jack and Jill went up the ,
To fetch a pail of ;
Jack fell down and broke his ,
And Jill came tumbling .
watercrownhillafter
Answer Key
hill · water · crown · after
The Fill-In Story
Fill every blank without peeking at the story, then press the button to read your tale.
