Grade 8 Logic and Reasoning Puzzles
Engage in critical thinking with a variety of logic and reasoning puzzles designed for 8th-grade students.
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Grade 8 Logic and Reasoning Puzzles
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Read each puzzle carefully and use your logic and reasoning skills to solve them. Show your work or explain your reasoning where applicable.
1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
2. What is the next number in the sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, .
3. Complete the sequence: 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, .
4. All birds can fly. A robin is a bird. Therefore, a robin can fly. This is an example of:
Inductive Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
Abductive Reasoning
Analogical Reasoning
5. Three friends, Alex, Ben, and Chloe, each have a different favorite color: blue, green, or red. Alex does not like red. Ben likes blue. What is Chloe's favorite color? Explain your reasoning.
Match the pattern on the left with its rule on the right.
6. 1, 3, 5, 7...
a. Multiply by 2, then add 1
7. 2, 5, 11, 23...
b. Add 2 to the previous number
8. If all dogs are mammals, and all mammals are animals, then all dogs are animals.
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