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Math Puzzles

Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

An angular set of cliffs juts into the sea, tiny people just visible along its top edge
GamesApril 4, 2026

Math Puzzle: Find the highest point

Heinrich Hemme
Golden gears nestle together on a circular piece of metal
GamesMarch 28, 2026

Math Puzzle: A good ‘Gizmo’ is hard to find

Jack Murtagh
Your bracket shows A and B playing a game, with B winning; C and D playing a game, with D winning; and B and D playing the championship game, with B winning.
GamesMarch 21, 2026

Math Puzzle: March Math-ness

Emma R. Hasson
Cartoon renderings of the mathematical symbol pi with pizza toppings on them
GamesMarch 14, 2026

Math Puzzle: Pi Day mishap

Jack Murtagh
Fireworks trace out the number 456
GamesMarch 7, 2026

Math Puzzle: Tricky calculation

Emma R. Hasson
Digital illustration showing a series of blue pixelated question marks on a black background
GamesFebruary 28, 2026

Math Puzzle: Can you read my mind?

Jack Murtagh
Numbers on a blue and red background
GamesFebruary 21, 2026

Math Puzzle: Find the three values

Hans-Karl Eder
Graphic shows the squares and circles described above with zoomed-in insets showing ever smaller circles in the corner of the blue square.
GamesFebruary 14, 2026

Math Puzzle: The sum of all circles

Jack Murtagh
Graphic shows a cube made up of 27 smaller cubes.
GamesFebruary 7, 2026

Math Puzzle: Follow the termite

Martin Gardner
Close-up image of cake slice varieties on multicoloured plates
GamesJanuary 31, 2026

Math Puzzle: A statistical anomaly

Jack Murtagh
Graphic shows 16 matchsticks arranged to fill in every line segment of a two-by-three grid except for the horizontal segment making up the top middle part.
GamesJanuary 24, 2026

Math Puzzle: Make matchstick squares

Heinrich Hemme
Graphic shows a pizza with dashed lines indicating cuts dividing the pie into eight slices. Each of the following four slices has one piece of pepperoni: the two slices in the upper right quadrant, the bottom slice in the lower left quadrant, and the bottom slice in the upper left quadrant.
GamesJanuary 17, 2026

Math Puzzle: A Pizza Puzzle

Jack Murtagh
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