2025 Puzzle – Yearly Digit Grid Puzzle
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Celebrate the new year with a fun 2025 puzzle! Can you arrange the strips in the provided grid to form the digits in 2025? This puzzle is available in two levels and is sure to provide a fun challenge for students and adults alike!
Since the 2023 Digit Grid Puzzle was downloaded over 5000 times and the 2024 Digit Grid Puzzle was downloaded over 6000 times, I think this yearly digit grid puzzle has officially become a yearly tradition!
I have already been getting emails from teachers asking when the 2025 version will be available. The time has officially come!
2025 Digit Grid Puzzle Instructions
Arrange the strips in the provided grid to form the digits in 2025. The strips may be placed horizontally and/or vertically on the grid.
When I first started creating these puzzles in 2023, I didn’t specify that the strips could be placed horizontally and/or vertically, and I ended up with a lot of teachers emailing me saying that the puzzle was impossible.
If your students are struggling to solve the puzzle, you might re-emphasize to them that the pieces can be placed horizontally and vertically on the puzzle grid.
There are actually two different versions of the grid to choose from. The first version (shown above) includes a blank grid for students to build 2025 on top of.
This is great for promoting spatial reasoning in students as the have to look at the 2025 grid at the top of the page and think about what they need to complete the grid for the puzzle.
If you are working with younger students or with students who need a bit more help, there is an additional version of the puzzle grid that has 2025 marked out on the grid in gray squares.
This version is also suggested for teachers who want to have the activity take a bit less time. If you are using this as one of several activities during a class period, every minute counts!
Two Puzzle Versions
On top of there being two versions of the board to print, there are also two different levels of this puzzle: Level 1 and Level 2.
Level 1
The easiest version of the puzzle has 11 strips that students must place on the puzzle grid to form the digits of 2025. The strips come in two different sizes. Most of the strips are 1×5 rectangles, but four for the strips are 2×5 rectangles.
Level 2
The slightly more challenging version of the puzzle has 15 strips that students must place on the puzzle grid to form the digits of 2025. In the advanced version, all of the strips are 1×5 rectangles.
Printing and Prepping the Puzzle
This puzzle is designed to fit on letter-sized paper, but you could also scale it slightly to print on A4 paper if you aren’t in North America.
I highly recommend printing both versions (basic and advanced) and trying them out before deciding which version would be the best to use with your students. Or, you could print both versions and let students choose which version to attempt.
I printed my puzzle pieces on colorful Astrobrights paper to make them “pop,” but you could just print them on regular copy paper as well.
Using the Puzzle in the Classroom
This would make a great welcome back activity for the first day back after holiday break to help celebrate the new year.
I will also put out the 2025 Yearly Number Challenge as one of my puzzles of the week. It too is a yearly tradition in my classroom!
I have recently been posting my puzzle of the week in a Charles Leonard magnetic pocket that I picked up from Amazon. It hangs on my dry erase board, and it can hold a surprising amount of weight. I’m very impressed with them.
Free Download of 2025 Puzzle
The 2025 Puzzle is available to download for free in two convenient formats: PDF (non-editable) and PowerPoint (editable).
Puzzle Solutions
I intentionally do not make answers to the printable math puzzles I share on my blog available online because I strive to provide learning experiences for my students that are non-google-able. I would like other teachers to be able to use these puzzles in their classrooms as well without the solutions being easily found on the Internet.
However, I do recognize that us teachers are busy people and sometimes need to quickly reference an answer key to see if a student has solved a puzzle correctly or to see if they have interpreted the instructions properly.
If you are a teacher who is using these puzzles in your classroom, please send me an email at sarah@mathequalslove.net with information about what you teach and where you teach. I will be happy to forward an answer key to you.
Not a teacher? Go ahead and send me an email as well. Just let me know what you are using the puzzles for. I am continually in awe of how many people are using these puzzles with scouting groups, with senior adults battling dementia, as fun activities in their workplace, or as a birthday party escape room.
Previous Year’s Versions of the Digit Grid Puzzle
2024 Puzzle
The 2024 Puzzle is available to download for free in two convenient formats: PDF (non-editable) and Publisher (editable). In order to edit the Publisher file, you will need to make sure you have Microsoft Publisher installed on your computer.
2024 Puzzle (PDF) (6695 downloads )
2024 Puzzle (Editable Publisher File ZIP) (1634 downloads )
2023 Puzzle
The 2023 Puzzle is available to download for free in two convenient formats: PDF (non-editable) and Publisher (editable). In order to edit the Publisher file, you will need to make sure you have Microsoft Publisher installed on your computer.
