Pumpkin Battle Puzzles

Can you use logic to correctly place the pumpkins in these pumpkin battle logic puzzles?

Looking for more fall activities and puzzles for your classroom? Here’s a few examples of the other fall activities and games I have created.

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  9 Pumpkins Puzzle
• 
  Picking Pumpkins Game
• 
  Square Fall Logic Puzzle
• 
  Fall Fill-In Word Puzzle
• 
  Fall Dots and Boxes Game
• 
  Football Word Search Puzzle

Instructions

Place pumpkin symbols in the 5×5 grids so that each row, each column, and each region contains exactly one pumpkin. Additionally, pumpkins may not touch one another either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Origin of Puzzle

These pumpkin battle puzzles are a fun seasonal variation on Star Battle puzzles which were introduced in 2003 at the World Puzzle Championship by Hans Eendebak.

Jim Bumgardner has been providing a harder version of these puzzles involving placing two stars in each row, column, and diagonal to the New York Times under the name “Two Not Touch.”

Puzzle Solving Walk-Through Video

I filmed a video walking through how to solve 5×5 and 7×7 pi battle puzzles. These pumpkin battle puzzles are the same logical solving process – just with pumpkins instead of pi symbols!

Printing and Setting up the Puzzle

These pumpkin battle logic puzzles are designed to print one puzzle per page to allow students to use pumpkin manipulatives for solving the puzzles. There are 6 different puzzles for students to work through.

I have also created a page of printable pumpkin manipulatives that can be printed on orange paper or cardstock and cut out for students to move around.

You could also use a set of fall-themed mini erasers if you wanted to avoid dealing with small bits of paper.