Puzzle Port

What students practice

Students practice order and position logical reasoning, docking each ship into the one bay that satisfies every clue on the board, including clues naming a bay number, left/right position, being next to another ship, or being at an end, with harder rounds adding clues that rule a position out (such as one ship not being next to another).

How to play

Players press a ship's first letter to pick it, 1 through 4 to dock it in a bay, Backspace to lift it back out, and Enter to check the dock once every bay is full. A wrong dock, or a docking window that closes, shows the correct order and the clue that was broken; three closed windows ends the mission, though a failed puzzle always returns for another try.

Teacher Setup

Teacher Setup lets a teacher choose which clue types are in play (starting with bay numbers and left/right, adding next-to and ends clues, and optional not-clues), how many ships are in each puzzle, and the speed. The end-of-mission report includes a printable list of skills to practice, asking students to re-read and draw out the clues.

Play it in Starship Arcade

Puzzle Port is one of 16 games in the Logic and Reasoning room, a members room on the Promenade.