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Sudoku
This slightly tricky puzzle was invented
in Japan. You have to fill in the spaces
with numbers from 1-9, so that when it is The giggler
finished, every row, column and 3x3 box
Q: How do astronauts keep in touch?
contains all the numbers from 1-9.
A: Via Spacebook
Q: What has two legs in the morning,
Top tips
three legs in the afternoon and two
• Look for the place where there are
legs again in the evening?
most numbers (clue: try the centre
A: A man who buys a walking stick and
columns of this grid).
then takes it back.
• Work out which numbers are missing,
then try each of them in turn, to see which
are not already featured in that particular Did you know?
row and column. A cockroach can survive for
• If you are still confused, ask an adult! several weeks
with its head cut
off. The ­insects can make
do without their heads

Crack
­because they can breathe
through other parts of

What the code

their bodies.

am I? Can you work out the phrase or

saying represented here? It helps if
Book club
The Boy in the Dress,
you say out loud what you can see. by David Walliams
Can you identify
the modes of This is a really funny book about a
transport from
these four close-up
photographs?
BIG YOUR
YOUR BOOT
12-year-old boy called Dennis. He
makes friends with a girl who per-
suades him to wear a dress to school,
BIG BOOT
YOUR
YOUR but he gets expelled which means he
can’t play in the football cup final. But
he goes along to watch
For answers see tomorrow’s G2 it, and at half time his
teammates are saying,
Activity Make a putty monst “we need you to play”,
er so he encourages them
to wear dresses and
Everyone loves points along the can press the they do. He plays
playing with edge of the blob, area between too and they win
putty, but and extend until the eyes so the match. The
12-year-old Tom they form six the pupils very unusual parts
Spring took his long spikes. Twist turn in. of this story are
hobby to the next to make it look what make it so
level by ­inventing scarier. There is no fantastic.
a putty-based toy: ▲ Step 1 need to worry Review by Henry
Putty ­Monsters. “I wanted to ▶ Step 3 if you make a Shepherd, age 9.
It involves make a fat blob “Then I put the mistake – they Email a review of your favour-
moulding putties with spikes eyes in quite go back to their ite book to g2kids@guardian.co.uk
into monsters, ­coming off it, close to each ­original shape
then watching as so I flattened other.” To make after a few min- Yesterday’s answers
they shrink back. the putty into a the monster utes. But this Spot the difference Bird missing from
A toy company blobbish shape.” cross-eyed, you does mean that branch; Mowgli’s pants have changed colour;
liked the idea so This creates the your ­creation girl has one plait; tiger lost its stripes; end
much that it is monster’s round won’t last for of snake’s tail gone; wolf cub missing at
selling them in body. ever, so front of picture.
puzzles by clarity media

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