For over a century, a simple yet tricky math problem had continued to baffle experts. Mathematicians struggled to find the fewest number of pieces needed to cut an equilateral triangle and rearrange ...

There are many ways to have fun and challenge, but solving puzzles is the best way to test your IQ and logical thinking. In ...

On Sunday, teams of up to four people competed in the monthly puzzle race at Snakes & Lattes Chicago. Lizzy Alvarez and Maddie Bouchie, two of the first-place winners, will travel to a national puzzle ...

Sayonara, Sudoku. For a better-rounded puzzle that includes not just logic, but math, too, try KenKen. It's probably even good for you. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

One of the oldest puzzle genres of history is what we now call the word square or acrostic, a square grid of seemingly random letters which, however, actually conceals words or messages. One of the ...