Animal Ark Packing Puzzle — Fit Them All Aboard

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1. Pick a challenge card and see which tiles it places for you.
2. Set those tiles on the ark exactly as the card shows.
3. Look at the gaps left and the tiles still in your hand.
4. Fit the remaining tiles so every animal stands the right way up.
5. When the ark is full, check your solution against the answer.

• Fitting shapes into a fixed space, which is real spatial reasoning
• Starting with the most constrained tiles rather than the easy ones
• Keeping two rules at once: fill every gap and keep every animal upright
• Checking work against an answer and trying again

• Work through the challenge cards in order, from the first to the last
• Name each animal as its tile goes aboard
• Time a challenge, then try to beat it on a second go