Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

Imagine someone handing you a scrap of net from a basketball hoop, with knotted red cord attached to the netting, and telling you this bit of string is a clue in a puzzle. How quickly — if ever — ...

As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve making a series of inferences ...

It's a math puzzle designed for third graders, but many adults are having trouble solving it. The puzzle looks something like Scrabble, with a series of boxes that snake up, down and across a page.

Brain teasers are one of the best puzzles to test the sharpness of the brain. Readers need to think outside the box for solving brain teasers. These challenges are presented in the form of a picture ...

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative ...

Jigsaw Puzzles are tiling puzzles that require the assembly of some irregularly shaped, interlocking pieces of card in a regular and perfect shape that forms a complete picture. Jigsaw Puzzles are a ...

Here’s a fairly recent twist on an old type of logic puzzle. A logician vacationing in the South Pacific finds himself on an island inhabited by the two proverbial groups of liars and truth-tellers.