For parents and teachers

Non-verbal reasoning practice for children

Picture puzzles for ages 5 to 11 in three levels, new every time, with the rule explained after each answer and a printable set with answers. Free, no ads, no sign-up.

The puzzles

Odd one out

Five pictures; four share something and one does not — its shape, its colouring or how many there are.

What comes next

A row of pictures that changes by a rule — a shape that turns, colouring that fills in, a count that goes up — and the next one to find.

Complete the grid

A three-by-three grid with one box missing, where rows and columns each follow a rule.

Turn and mirror

Which picture is this one turned, or seen in a mirror. From the Core level up.

For school entry and gifted-test preparation

These are the same kinds of picture reasoning found in the non-verbal parts of tests many schools use, such as the CogAT, NNAT and OLSAT in the United States and the 11+ and CAT4 in the United Kingdom. They are practice in that style, written by us: they are not those tests, not endorsed by their publishers, and nothing here predicts a score on them. Those names belong to their owners.

Two things the research on test preparation supports are familiarity with the format, so a child is not surprised by it on the day, and talking through why an answer is right. The Learn mode is built for the second: after each answer it says, in words you can read aloud, what the rule was.

Every puzzle has exactly one answer

Each grid and sequence is checked against every picture its rules could produce, and thrown away unless exactly one choice fits; odd-one-out sets are checked so that exactly one picture differs, and only in one way. The same run number rebuilds the same set, so a printed sheet and the screen match.

What this page does with your child’s answers

Nothing leaves the page. Your child needs no account and types nothing; the answers stay in this tab and are gone when it closes. There are no advertisements on this page. There are no age norms either, so the result is only how many were right in this sitting — never a label, a percentile or a verdict about a child. If you are signed in to your own account, you can save a sitting there; the page never asks a child to sign in.