Colour by number Pixel Pictures
- Puzzle Sheet: Simple Colour By Number Pixel Puzzle Picture – Halloween (colour key)[PDF]
- Solution Sheet: Simple Colour By Number Pixel Puzzle – Halloween [PDF]
- Raw Puzzle Sheet: Simple Colour By Number Pixel Puzzle Picture – Halloween(colour key)[PDF] – same puzzle as above but without instructions etc
- Raw Solution Sheet: Simple Colour By Number Pixel Puzzle – Halloween [PDF]
Halloween creature odd-even Pixel Puzzle
Colour all the EVEN numbers black to find a hidden Halloween animal.
- Pixel Puzzle: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle [PDF]
- Pixel Puzzle Solution: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle Solution [PDF]
- RAW Pixel Puzzle: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle (RAW version) [PDF]
- RAW Pixel Puzzle Solution: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle solution (RAW version) [PDF]
Odd-land swamp Pixel Puzzle
In odd-land, solid ground is made of odd numbers (1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and so on). Blue swampy ground is made of even numbers. Colour the odd numbers to find a way through the swamp. Can you spot a pattern of colours to use to colour in the odd numbers?
- Pixel Puzzle: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle [PDF]
- Pixel Puzzle Solution: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle Solution [PDF]
- RAW Pixel Puzzle: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle (RAW version) [PDF]
- RAW Pixel Puzzle Solution: Halloween Odd-Even Pixel Puzzle solution (RAW version) [PDF]
See our odd-even page for more odd-even puzzles
Kriss-kross puzzles combine a love of words with a love of logic. Given a list of words of different lengths, you must fit them all in to the grid. See our Kriss-Kross page for more kiss-kross puzzles.
- Puzzle Sheet: Kriss-Kross -Halloween [PDF]
- Raw Puzzle: Raw version of Kriss-Kross Halloween … to include in your own handouts [PDF]
- Solution Sheet: Kriss-Kross – Halloween Solution [PDF]
- NB Pumpkin ended in the wrong column in the first version (now fixed)
Make a Halloween Useless Machine Coffin
Make a Halloween “Useless Machine” coffin. Switch it on and the occupant reaches out of the coffin and switches it off again. See the CS4FN blog post for more on Useless Machines. Find the plans to make your own here.
Make a Pumpkin Head Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a simple card robot head that can be “programmed” to change emotions. Make your own pumpkin head version that can change mouth and eyes to different pumpkin versions
Halloween-linked cs4fn articles
- The Mummy in an AI World: Jane Webb’s future
- Pass the screwdriver, Igor: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Monster and artificial life
- A Storm in a bell jar: Andrew Crosse creating life
Halloween Computing Jokes
Why do computer scientists get confused between Halloween and Christmas?
ANSWER:
Because Oct 31 = Dec 25
What is Dracula’s favourite Computer Science subject?
ANSWER
Cryptography
Why is the number 237 magical?
ANSWER:
Because it is Hex ED
What do computers worry about most at Halloween?
ANSWER:
A byte from a vampire.
How did the first program die?
ANSWER:
It was executed.
How did the second program die?
ANSWER:
From a bug.
What is Dracula’s favourite control structure?
ANSWER
A Count-controlled loop
What is Dracula’s favourite kind of computing?
ANSWER
He likes mobile computing too because it is all BATtery operated. Though before that he preferred BATch processing.
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