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Math Puzzles

Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

Graphic shows a five-by-five chess board with the middle square removed. The square in the upper left corner is labeled “start” and the one in the bottom right corner is labeled “finish.”

GamesNovember 22, 2025

Math Puzzle: The Doughnut-Shaped Chess Board

Graphic shows four two-dimensional shapes: (1) a square, (2) an equilateral triangle, (3) a boxy U-shape, and (4) a shape resembling the outline of a plus-sign with one outer segment missing.

GamesNovember 15, 2025

Math Puzzle: Falling Through

Colorful plastic numbers jumbled together

GamesNovember 8, 2025

Math Puzzle: A Divisive Number

Colorful pushpins in paper calendar squares

GamesNovember 1, 2025

Math Puzzle: Keep the Calendars

Illustration of two unidentifiable people opening oversized wrapped present

GamesOctober 25, 2025

Math Puzzle: Diplomatic Gift-Giver

The Worm Moon over the city of New Orleans on March 13th, 2025, pictured between two branches seen out of focus in the foreground

GamesOctober 18, 2025

Math Puzzle: Measure the Moon

Pink piggy bank on blue background

GamesOctober 11, 2025

Math Puzzle: Steal the Piggy Bank

Graphic shows the face of a clock with lines in place of numbers and three hands of equal length pointing in different directions. The clock is oriented slightly askew to indicate that the orientation is ambiguous, but if it were rotated a few degrees clockwise and the top center line were the 12, two of the hands would point exactly at 8 and 10 respectively, and the third hand would point just above the 3.

GamesOctober 4, 2025

Math Puzzle: Find the Time

Beautiful pine forest on the Baltic seaside shows a dirt path splitting in two

GamesSeptember 27, 2025

Math Puzzle: The Wanderer’s Return

Airplane making circle trace against clear blue sky

GamesSeptember 20, 2025

Math Puzzle: A Plane Circle

Two equations are shown: ALL plus ACE equals CREW and CARD plus CORD equals GURU

GamesSeptember 13, 2025

Math Puzzle: Crack the Code

Graphic shows two pairs of mathematical knots labeled “pair 1” and “pair 2.” The knots within each pair are identical except for one difference in the looping configuration.

GamesSeptember 6, 2025

Math Puzzle: Find the Unknot