A free 90-page book from Analog Society

80 things to do without a device

Eighty activities on eighty pages, for the afternoons when the screens go off and the day suddenly feels very long. Codes to crack, towers to build out of nothing but paper, creatures to invent, puzzles that take a whole rainy Saturday.

Made for children who are old enough to read on their own, and good enough that the adult usually ends up doing one too. Solutions are at the back.

• Cryptograms with a starter letter given, so nobody gets stuck
• Build-it challenges — the tallest tower from five sheets of A4, no tape
• Drawing and writing pages with room to actually work on the page
• Logic problems that are genuinely hard, for the ones who want that

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Ninety pages, eighty activities, solutions at the back. Print the whole thing and staple it, or pull out one page at a time and leave it on the table.

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