Answers & little hints

Trace the road from Aro with your finger. Who is waiting at its end?

Ori: the middle friend picture. The golden cloud road ends beside Ori.

When a wall stops you, can you return to the last opening and try another way?

A continuous route from Aro at the upper left to Ori at the lower right, staying inside the maze and passing through openings without crossing walls. A route may bend or backtrack.

Look beside the cloud. Where is there enough space to pass?

Reach Ori from Aro without crossing walls or touching either of the two black clouds. Different clear detours around a cloud are valid.

For the route, look for an open way around each cloud. For the count, touch each star once as you say the numbers.

1. Reach Ori without crossing walls or touching any of the three black clouds. 2. Circle 4: there are four stars, at the upper left, upper right, lower left and near the bottom. Do not count lightning or Ori's crystal.

Start at the bottom. Point to each amulet and say its picture name. What repeats?

The sun: the left answer picture. Read upward from the bottom of the tube: moon, sun, moon, then sun.

Keep the same reading direction in the tube and in the answer pairs: start at the bottom.

The left pair, with a sun below a moon. Read the answer pair upward, just like the tube: the next amulet is a sun, then a moon.

Say the picture names upward from the bottom. Where does the repeating order change?

Cross out the triangle in the middle of the tube. Circle the moon in the left answer box and color that replacement purple. The repaired pattern alternates moon and sun.

Continue upward one place at a time. After drawing, imagine the next place, then count only the suns.

1. In the two empty circles, draw a sun in the lower blank and a moon in the top blank; color them. 2. One more amulet above those would be a sun. There would then be 3 suns in the six-amulet pattern: write 3.

Compare the bottoms of the two pans. Which one is closer to the bottom of the picture?

Touch the pan on the right. It hangs lower and holds four pearls; the left pan holds two.

Touch each pearl once as you count. Remember the pearls behind the front ones.

Circle the right pan: it has 4 pearls. The left pan has 2.

Pair one pearl on the left with one on the right. Which right-side pearls still need a partner?

Draw 2 pearls in the lighter, left pan, using the two dashed spaces. Both pans then have 4 pearls. Color the pearls; no particular color is required.

Count both groups first. How can you make them match by drawing? Then count only the pearls you added.

1. There are 3 pearls on the left and 5 on the right. The simplest solution is to add 2 pearls to the left: 3 + 2 = 5. 2. Write 2. Other solutions are valid: add 2 more pearls to the left than to the right, then write the total added to both pans. For example, add 3 on the left and 1 on the right; both pans have 6, and the total added is 4.

Compare the three boxed moons. Which takes up the most space?

Point to the middle box: it contains the largest moon.

Pair a potion in one box with a potion in the other. Is any potion left without a partner?

Point to the right box with 3 potions. The left box has 2.

Compare each choice with the starting moon. Which one has shrunk?

Circle the small moon in the right box. The middle moon is the same size as START; the left moon is larger.

Count the starting group, then show one extra finger. Find the group that matches.

Circle the right box with 4 potions: 3 + 1 = 4.

Check two things: is it still the same kind of object, and has its size changed?

Color the small moon in the middle box. It stays a moon while becoming smaller. Any color is fine.

Cover one starting potion with your finger. Which box matches what remains?

Color the right group of 3 potions: 4 - 1 = 3. Any color is fine.

For the second question, undo the change. What must the moon have looked like before the shrinking?

1. Color the small moon in the right answer box. 2. Circle the large moon in the first answer box to the right of the backward arrow. The moon was larger before it shrank.

For the second question, cover the potion that just appeared. How many were there before?

1. Draw 5 potions in the empty field and write 5: the starting 4 gain 1. 2. Circle the middle numeral, 4: 4 + 1 = 5.

Look at the crystals floating in the air, then compare the answer windows.

The middle window shows the 2 floating crystals in the scene.

Can you remember how the potions were arranged? Compare each window with that picture.

Circle the middle window with 3 potions. The other windows have 2 and 4.

Think about one window at a time. Show its amount on your fingers, then color that many.

Color 3 crystals in the row labeled Left and 5 in the row labeled Right. Any crystals within the correct row may be colored; their positions and colors need not match the remembered arrangement.

Remember each window separately. In the bottom row, compare amounts even when the crystals are arranged differently.

1. Write Left: 5, Middle: 3, Right: 4. 2. Circle the first and third crystal windows in the bottom row; both show 5. Color one crystal in each circled window.

Touch each drop in the large honeycomb. Find a little honeycomb with one partner for every drop.

Point to the middle honeycomb with 2 drops, matching the 2 drops above.

Pair the right dots with the left dots. Does every left dot have a partner?

Draw 1 dot in the right tile. Both tiles then have 3 dots. Putting it above the existing pair also matches the arrangement, but the stated goal is an equal amount.

Check one row at a time. Which pairs already have the same number?

Add colored dots to the right tiles: top row 2, middle row 0, bottom row 1. The matching amounts are 3, 2 and 3. Leave the already equal middle pair alone.

First make each pair match. Then count only your new colored dots, not the printed black ones.

1. Add 2 dots to the top-right tile, 1 to the middle-right tile and 1 to the bottom-right tile. 2. Circle 4, the middle answer: 2 + 1 + 1 = 4 new dots.

Follow the edge. Would the two pieces meet from the tip to the stem?

Choose the larger right-hand half in the first answer box. It matches the height and outline of Muno’s piece.

Compare both the size and the edge that will touch Muno’s half.

Circle the middle piece: the full-size half with a straight joining edge. The left piece is smaller; the right piece has a jagged edge.

Find the piece with the tip and the piece with the stem first.

The pointed piece goes at the top, the strip in the middle, and the piece with the stem at the bottom. Point to that order, or arrange the cut-out pieces to make a whole leaf. Then color the leaf green.

Count pieces inside each leaf before counting the leaves.

Three leaves have two parts: first and third in the top row, and the leaf below. Circle 3 and color those leaves green. Two leaves have three parts: second and fourth in the top row. Circle 2.

Match each pebble on one mat with a pebble on the other.

The empty mat needs 1 pebble. Choose the left box with one dot.

Look at one pair of mats at a time. Does every pebble have a partner?

Circle the middle pair of mats: 2 pebbles on each. The top pair has 1 and 2; the bottom pair has 3 and 1.

Which mat has a pebble without a partner?

Draw 1 pebble on the left mat, which has 2. Leave the right mat at 3. Then color the pebbles on both mats.

Pair pebbles without using any twice. Then start again and deal one pebble to each mat in turn.

Nine pebbles make 4 complete pairs with 1 left over: circle 4. For the second task, share the original nine equally among three mats: 3 on each, so circle 3. Do not add the drawings on the mats to the original total.

Touch each little duckling once. Who is leading the group?

Count the 3 little yellow ducklings; choose the middle box with three dots. Dako, wearing a scarf, is not one of the little ducklings.

Keep track of which ducklings you have already touched.

There are 4 little ducklings. Circle the right box with four dots; do not include Dako in the duckling count.

Can you find a duckling even when you cannot see its whole body?

There are 4 little ducklings, including the partly hidden one. Circle the middle box with four dots and color the ducklings.

Follow the arrow to find who is moving into the waiting group.

Task 1: 3 ducklings are waiting; circle the middle answer, 3. Task 2: one joins, making 4; circle the right answer, 4. Color the newcomer at the lower right, beside the arrow.

Touch each cup once before choosing the matching dots.

There are 3 cups with water; choose the right box with three dots.

Compare the water surface with the marks on the side.

Circle the middle cup. Its water reaches the same scale mark as the model. The left cup has less; the right cup has more.

Start at the bottom and find the line with the drop beside it.

Color upward from the bottom to each gold target: A reaches mark 5, B mark 2, C mark 4, D mark 1, counting marks from the bottom. Judge the chosen level, not perfectly neat coloring.

Use the marked level in the reference. Which cups are exactly one mark away?

From left to right, write A = 2, B = 3, C = 4, D = 3, E = 5. Compared with the reference 3, circle A in red (one less) and C in blue (one more).

Find the thick line with the drop beside it. Stop the water there.

Color upward from the bottom to the thick target line: A = mark 5, B = mark 2, C = mark 4, D = mark 1. This is the monochrome version of sheet 3.

Trace around the fence until your finger reaches a gap.

As pictured, the middle horizontal fence piece matches the bottom gap.

Look at the two open ends. Which way must the missing piece slope?

As pictured, choose the right-hand diagonal piece. It bridges the gap at the lower right.

Trace each fence all the way around. Can you get through a gap?

There are 3 closed yards: top left, bottom left, and bottom right. Circle the middle box with three dots; color those fences brown.

Check every yard for a gap before separating the closed and open groups.

Four yards are closed: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right. Circle 4 and color those fences brown. Two yards are open, both in the middle column; circle 2.

Match pebbles across the two shelves. Which group has some left without a partner?

Choose the right box with 4 dots: the upper shelf has 4 pebbles, compared with 2 below. A finger path toward that shelf is enough.

Compare all three groups before choosing a shelf.

Draw a line from Juno to the middle shelf with 5 pebbles. The top shelf has 3 and the bottom shelf 4.

Check what you are counting: round pebbles or pointed crystals?

Draw Juno’s jump to the middle shelf and color its 5 round pebbles. Ignore the pointed crystals on the top shelf.

Compare the round pebbles on each shelf, keeping the crystals separate.

Task 1: choose and color the middle group of 5 pebbles. Task 2: the top shelf has the fewest pebbles, 3; circle the middle answer, 3. Its crystals do not count.

Compare the strip’s ends with the ends of the empty row.

Choose the middle strip with 2 squares. It fits the two-square empty row.

Count only the empty spaces in Kena’s row.

Choose the right strip with 2 squares. One square is already in place and two spaces remain.

Check two things: will it fill the gap, and does it have leaves?

Circle and color the right strip: 2 squares with leaves. The blank two-square strip has the right length but not the leaf design.

First count the whole row. Then count just the empty part.

The whole row has 6 squares, including 2 filled and 4 empty; circle 6. Choose and color the right strip with 4 leaves to fill the gap.

Before hiding the picture, say where the log is in your own words.

After hiding the picture, point to the middle answer box. The log was in the top-middle space.

Notice both the row and the place within that row.

Mark the bottom-middle box in the two-row grid.

Name the two places before covering the picture, then picture the dam again.

Mark top middle and bottom left. No other boxes contained logs.

After remembering the logs, track the empty spaces as one more is filled.

Mark top left, top right, and bottom middle. There are 6 spaces: 3 occupied, then one more log is added to an empty space, leaving 2 empty. Write 2.

Follow the outline and notice where its sides meet.

Point to Kova’s triangle on the large board, then choose the middle triangle below.

Find the two open ends. What would connect them?

Join the two bottom dots with the missing bottom side, closing the square.

Start at a corner and trace once around, counting each side once.

Color the top-right frame with 5 sides. The top-left frame has 3; the bottom frame has 6.

Does the joining stick belong to one shape or both? Count each physical stick just once.

Task 1: 6 sticks; circle 6 and color the central vertical stick shared by the triangle and square. Task 2: separate shapes need 7 sticks; circle 7.

Compare the outlines of the shells.

Choose the middle fan-shaped shell. It matches the shell on the scale.

The dots tell you weight. Add all the dots within each choice.

Circle the right set: 1-dot fan shell plus 2-dot spiral shell = 3 weight dots. The other sets total 2 and 4.

Remember the shell already on the right. How much is still missing?

Choose the left spiral shell with 2 dots. The right pan already has 1 dot, so adding 2 matches the left pan’s 3.

After each change, compare the total weight on both pans again.

Task 1: add a 2-dot shell on the right; circle 2. Both sides then weigh 4. Task 2: removing the 1-dot shell on the left leaves 3. Keep one 2-dot shell on the right and replace the other with a 1-dot shell; circle 1.

Which bottle carries the same symbol as the recipe?

Choose the left Moon potion with the crescent symbol.

Follow the recipe’s arrow from the potion already used.

Circle the middle Good Fairy potion with the butterfly. Moon is already poured; Good Fairy comes next.

Check one bottle at a time, starting at the left.

Color the bottom row: Moon → Pollen → Good Fairy. All three symbols and their order must match.

Match the order first. Then count only the symbol named in the question.

Circle and color the middle row: Good Fairy → Moon → Good Fairy. There are 2 Good Fairy potions in the recipe; circle 2.

Look at the picture lines beside the gap. What needs to continue?

Choose the left piece showing the lower part of Rilo’s body and the path. It completes the bottom-right space.

Compare the edges of the gap and the picture on each piece.

Choose the middle piece with Rilo’s paws and the acorn. It completes the middle-right gap.

A picture can look right while its edge is wrong. Check both clues.

Choose the middle piece. It continues Rilo’s picture and has an outward tab on each side. The right piece has the similar picture but a different left edge.

Touch each separate empty space once, then imagine covering the spaces Rilo fills.

Five pieces are missing: two at the top, two in the third row, and one at the bottom middle. Write 5. After Rilo fits 2 pieces, 3 are still missing; write 3.

Match each carrot on the sign with one in a basket.

Choose the left basket with 2 carrots, matching the 2 on Muva’s sign. The right basket has 3.

Count each carrot, even when some sit farther back.

Circle the upper-left basket with 3 carrots. The upper-right basket has 4; the lower basket has 2.

Do not let the spacing decide. Match each carrot with one on the sign.

Circle the upper-left basket with 4 carrots and color those carrots orange. The other baskets contain 5 and 3.

Can two groups have the same number even when they contain different things?

Circle the upper-left basket with 3 wheat stalks. It matches the number of carrots on the sign even though the objects differ. Circle 3.

Touch each carrot once, then match the dots.

There are 3 carrots. Choose the right box with three dots.

Count the whole stalks, not their individual grains.

There are 4 wheat stalks. Circle the middle box with four dots.

Look inside each basket before deciding whether to count it.

Cross out the two baskets with carrots. Three baskets are empty: top middle, top right, and bottom right. Circle the middle box with three dots; color those empty baskets.

Separate the carrots from the empty outlines before counting.

There are 3 carrots: circle 3 and color the carrots orange. There are 2 outlined empty spaces to their right: circle 2.

Look only inside the chart. Pair one item from each column.

Choose Shells, the left picture. The chart has 3 shells and 2 pearls. Coro’s shell outside the chart is not counted.

Compare each treasure with the label under its column.

Circle the pearl in the middle cell of the left, Shells column.

Give each treasure one space in the column with its matching picture.

Color from the bottom: 3 cells in Shells, 2 in Pearls, and 1 in Starfish. Count only the six treasures inside the tray.

Match the columns row by row. Where are there spaces without a partner?

The Shells and Starfish columns have 4 each; color those treasures. Pearls has 2, so it needs 2 more to match Shells: circle 2.

Match a pearl in each bowl. Does one bowl still have pearls left?

Point to the right bowl with 3 pearls; the left bowl has 1.

Touch each pearl once as you compare the groups.

Circle the right bowl with 5 pearls. The left bowl has 3.

Find the smooth round pearls before counting.

Circle the right bowl and color its 5 pearls. The left has 3 pearls. The ridged shells do not count.

Pair pearls across the bowls. How many in the larger group still need a partner?

Circle the right bowl and color its 5 pearls. The left has 3 pearls and needs 2 more to match: circle 2. Do not include shells.

Say the objects in order. Can you hear a repeating part?

Choose the left red berry: leaf → berry → leaf → berry.

Look for a little group that starts again.

Choose the left acorn: mushroom → mushroom → acorn repeats.

Begin at the left and see where the same group begins again.

Circle the middle group: leaf → leaf → berry. Repeating it makes the whole trail.

Compare the first group of three with the next group of three. Carry the same repeating structure to the new pictures.

Task 1: swap positions 5 and 6; circle the middle choice. The repaired pattern is leaf, leaf, berry, leaf, leaf, berry. Task 2: draw a mushroom, then an acorn in the two blanks.

Touch each whole shell once.

There are 2 shells. Choose the middle box with two dots.

Follow a simple order so that no shell is counted twice.

There are 4 shells. Circle the right box with four dots.

Find the spiral shells before you count.

Color the 4 spiral shells and circle the middle box with four dots. Leave the 2 smooth pebbles uncolored.

Start with the shells already there and count on to the number Pevo wants.

Task 1: 4 shells; circle 4 and color them. Task 2: Pevo needs 2 more shells to have 6; circle the right answer, 2. Pebbles are not shells.

Touch only the lilies that do not have a flower.

Two lilies still need flowers. Choose the middle box with two dots.

Try the landings in order. Passing over the flower is not the same as landing on it.

Circle the middle plan: LONG, then SHORT. The long hop skips the empty lily and lands on the flower; the short hop reaches the boat.

Check every landing: collect the flower, avoid Sevi, and finish at the boat.

Circle the right plan: SHORT, SHORT, LONG. Land on the empty lily, then the flower, then jump over Sevi to the boat.

Use one long hop and three short hops. Move the long hop and check whether you still land on the flower.

The three valid four-hop routes are 1 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6; 1 → 2 → 3 → 5 → 6; and 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 6. Write them in any order. With lily 4 blocked, only 1 → 2 → 3 → 5 → 6 remains: write 1 route.

Look inside both hideouts. What do you notice?

Point to the left hideout. It contains no acorns; the right one contains one.

Let each drawn acorn stand for one. What does the zero hideout need?

Top left, labeled 0: leave empty. Top right, 1: draw one acorn. Bottom left, 2: draw two. Bottom right, 3: draw three.

Count what is inside each hideout before choosing its number.

Connect 0 to the second hideout from the top, 1 to the bottom hideout, 2 to the top hideout, and 3 to the third hideout. Color the acorns as you count.

For each picture, begin with what is inside its hideout, then follow the change.

Task 1: 2 + 1 = 3; circle 3 and color the acorns. Task 2 starts afresh with one acorn: 1 − 1 = 0; circle 0.

Imagine lining up one end of each stick. Which reaches farthest?

Choose the left stick, the longest of the three choices.

Compare with the empty part, not the whole bridge.

Choose the middle stick. Its length matches only the dotted gap after the piece already in place.

The question needs two sticks. Imagine them touching end to end.

Color the left pair of two short sticks. Together they fill the gap. The middle choice has the right total length but is only one stick; the right pair is too long.

Measure the missing part first. For the whole bridge, include the part already built.

Task 1: choose and color the left pair, one short stick plus a double-length stick, to fill the three-unit gap. Task 2: the whole bridge is 5 short-stick units; circle 5. Count intervals, not the six marks on the scale.

Look at the shape on the mirror’s left side. Which outline matches it?

Choose the middle circle.

Compare the top shape and the bottom shape separately.

Choose the right pair: circle above square. A side-to-side reflection keeps the top-to-bottom order.

Imagine folding the picture along the mirror line. Where would each shape land?

Choose the middle arrangement: triangle at top left, circle at top right, square below the circle. It reverses left and right, while preserving height.

Make every shape a reflected partner. Then include the new shape and its partner.

Task 1: 2 shapes are missing on the right, a square and a triangle; write 2. Task 2: after repairing the reflection, adding one shape on the left also adds its reflection. There would be 4 shapes on each side, 8 altogether; write 8.

Before hiding the picture, say where the acorn sits.

Point to the top-left box in the lower grid after hiding the model.

Notice both the row and the side before covering the model.

Mark the bottom-right box in the lower grid.

Give each treasure a place name before hiding it.

Connect the acorn to top middle and the pinecone to bottom left in the lower grid. Color the treasures.

Compare where each treasure was with where it is now. Count the shelves that had nothing inside.

Circle the mushroom in the bottom-middle shelf of the lower grid. Draw it back in bottom left. The acorn stays bottom middle and the pinecone top right. Before the move, 3 of the 6 shelves were empty: write 3.

Compare how much space the two bales take up.

Choose the bigger bale in the right answer box.

Compare each choice with both neighbors.

Choose the medium bale in the middle answer box. It is larger than the first bale and smaller than the last.

Cover one bale at a time. Does every next bale get bigger?

Remove the second bale in the row, which is too large for that place. Circle its match in the middle answer box. The remaining four grow from left to right.

Compare neighboring sizes, then find where E fits without changing the order.

Task 1: B → D → A → C. Task 2: E fits between D and A. Write D for its smaller neighbor and A for its larger neighbor. Full order: B → D → E → A → C.

Compare the whole toy and its details with Vela’s fish.

Choose the middle blue-and-gold toy fish.

Which toy in Vela’s group is still on its own?

Circle the right ball of yarn. The fish already form a pair; the yarn needs a partner.

Put matching toys together and count each complete pair once.

There are 2 pairs: the two fish and the two yarn balls. Color the pairs and circle the middle box with two dots. The bell has no partner.

After making pairs, look for any toy left on its own.

There are 3 pairs: fish, yarn, and bells. Color each pair alike and circle 3. One toy has no match, the bow: circle 1.

Before hiding the model, name each toy and its row and place.

In the lower grid, connect top left with top right for the two fish and color those cards alike. Circle bottom left and bottom middle for the two bells. The yarn was top middle and bottom right.

Touch each whole pawprint once, rather than counting its toe marks.

There are 3 whole pawprints on the path. Choose the right box with three dots.

Count each row separately before comparing.

Circle the middle row with 4 pawprints. The top row has 2; the bottom row has 3.

Check the tips above the toes. Which prints have no claw marks?

Color the 4 cat prints without pointed claw marks: top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom middle. Circle the middle box with four dots.

Pair one dog print with one cat print, using a different cat print each time.

Task 1: 4 cat prints; color them and write 4. Task 2: there are 2 dog prints. Connect each to a different cat print, leaving 2 cat prints unpaired; write 2. Any one-to-one matching is valid.

Compare the main features of each place with the framed picture.

Choose the middle picture of the magical garden path, which matches the picture in Ori’s frame.

Follow the face and wing where the picture stops.

Choose the right half-picture of Aro with the outstretched wing. It continues the character and scenery in the frame.

Give each album picture an identical partner.

Circle the left fish picture. The two fox pictures and two farm-bird pictures form pairs; the single fish has no match.

Use each card only once. After making all possible pairs, see which pictures still need partners.

Task 1: 3 complete pairs are possible: one fox pair, one farm-bird pair, and one fish pair. Write 3. One fox and one unicorn remain. Task 2: add one fox card and one unicorn card, the fewest additions that pair every card; write 2.

Match one light to one button. Does a tray give every light a partner?

Choose the lower tray with 3 buttons, matching the 3 glowing lights. Place or mark one cap on each of those buttons.

Say the light pattern in order and listen for what repeats.

Connect the empty socket to the left flame button. The pattern is glowing, dark, glowing, dark, glowing.

Name the sequence before hiding it, then recall where the dark light was.

After hiding the model, color lights 1, 2, and 4 from the left. Leave light 3 dark.

For the first task, add just one to the glowing group. For your own program, count both kinds so that every light is included.

Task 1: turn on any one of the three dark lights. There are now 6 glowing lights; write 6. Task 2 is open: color any of the eight lights. Write how many glow and how many remain dark; the two counts must add to 8. All choices from 0 glowing/8 dark to 8 glowing/0 dark are valid.

Compare the white shape inside each center, not just the petal color.

Choose the left flower with the circle symbol matching the pollen. The middle flower has a heart and the right flower a triangle.

Check the symbol and the color pattern. Do both match?

Choose the middle pair: both centers have a heart and pink diagonal stripes. Color that flower’s petals pink.

Follow the pollen symbols from left to right. Check both clues at every stop.

Connect bottom left (blue star) → top middle (yellow dotted triangle) → bottom right (pink striped heart). Color their petals blue, yellow, and pink respectively. Any path shape is valid if it visits those three in order.

Count symbols and center colors separately before coloring. Then look for flowers that match both.

Among the ten flowers, there are 5 star symbols and 7 blue centers. Write 5 and 7, then choose Blue. Circle the four flowers with blue stars: top row positions 1 and 4, bottom row positions 3 and 5. Color their petals blue.

Trace the outline of the opening and compare the choices.

Choose the left triangle. It matches the opening in the flower.

Which way does the pointed end face?

Circle the right triangle, pointing right, just like the triangle in the flower.

Imagine the two pieces touching along their straight edges.

Color the middle pair of two semicircles. Join their straight edges to make the round center.

Compare each triangle with the one in the same place in Zumi’s model.

Task 1: choose and color the left mosaic: triangles point up, right, down. Task 2: circle the middle triangle in the lower row. It points left and must turn to point right.

Look at the face beside the tree. Compare its ears and face with each friend below.

The fox in the middle answer box matches the friend peeking from behind the tree.

Touch each fallen leaf once as you count. Check the whole path.

5 fallen leaves: choose the middle box with 5 dots. Count all the leaves on the path, including both rounded and pointed shapes.

Check each leaf for both clues: rounded edges and no hole.

5 oak leaves have no hole: choose the left box with 5 dots. Leave out the two pointed maple leaves and the oak leaf with a hole.

First leave out the leaf with a hole. Then pair each remaining maple leaf with an oak leaf. Which oak leaves still need partners?

1. There are 7 leaves without holes: 5 oak leaves and 2 maple leaves. Choose 7 in the middle box. 2. Add 3 maple leaves to make 5 maple and 5 oak leaves. Choose 3 in the middle box.

Point to each whole ball once, then find the dot group with the same amount.

3 balls: choose the right-hand box with 3 dots.

Each pot needs one plant. Which pots still have no plant?

2 more plants are needed: choose the left box with 2 dots. There are 5 pots; 3 already have plants and 2 are empty.

Trace the edge of each nest. Count only the eggs inside it.

5 eggs are inside the nests: choose the middle box with 5 dots. The nests contain 2, 1, and 2 eggs. Do not count the 2 eggs on the ground.

Count both baskets for the first question. For the second, remember that moving an apple makes one basket smaller and the other larger.

1. There are 6 apples altogether: 4 with Muva and 2 with Mufo. 2. Move 1 apple from Muva to Mufo. Both baskets then contain 3 apples.

Trace the treasure's outline in the air, then compare it with the choices.

The shell in the middle answer box matches the treasure beside Lumi.

Touch each whole shell once. Compare your count with each group of dots.

3 shells: choose the middle box with 3 dots.

Point only to objects with a shell shape, then count those.

4 shells: choose the left box with 4 dots. Do not include the 2 bottles.

For the first question, pair each pearl with a shell. For the second, count every object in both groups once.

1. There is 1 more shell than pearl: 4 minus 3 is 1. Write 1 or draw 1 dot in the left box. 2. There are 7 treasures altogether: 4 plus 3 is 7. Write 7 or draw 7 dots in the right box.

Compare the object on the shelf with each choice. Look at its long handle and the shape at the top.

The wand in the middle answer box matches the wand on the shelf.

Find the empty place. Which object on the same shelf still needs a matching partner?

The orb in the left answer box completes the pair on the bottom shelf.

Make pairs of the same kind on the shelves. Which object is left over?

The book has no partner: choose the right-hand answer box. There are two wands, two potions, two orbs, and one book.

A pair needs two of the same kind. Set complete pairs aside, then consider which leftover objects get partners after the change.

1. Make 3 complete pairs: one wand pair, one potion pair, and one book pair. One wand and one orb remain. Choose 3. 2. Adding a wand and an orb completes two more pairs, making 5 pairs altogether. Choose 5.

Compare the face and markings on the letter with each friend below.

Tibo, in the left answer box, matches the portrait on Lula's letter.

Check the mailbox symbol first. Then check whether that mailbox also has a roof.

Didi, in the middle answer box, has both a twig symbol and a roof.

The crossed-out roof is a clue too. Check both the symbol and what must be absent.

Tibo, in the left answer box, has a twig symbol but no roof.

For each letter, check every symbol. Then imagine moving only the roof; leave the friends and mailbox symbols in their places.

1. From left to right, write Didi, Lemo, Tibo: twig with roof, flower, twig without roof. 2. After moving only Didi's roof to Tibo, Tibo has both twig and roof. Circle Tibo on the left.