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Math Puzzles

Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

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

Graphic shows a Rubik’s cube with three visible faces consisting of red, green and yellow squares.

GamesAugust 30, 2025

Math Puzzle: Rubik’s Cube Shadows

Varieties of fresh pears and apples at a farmers market

GamesAugust 23, 2025

Math Puzzle: Spot a Liar

Illustration of a hand and multiple numbers against a purple background.

GamesAugust 16, 2025

Math Puzzle: You Win Some, You Lose Some

A square with eight dots along the edges: one at each corner and one at the center point of each side.

GamesAugust 9, 2025

Math Puzzle: Dissect the Square

Sudoku grid filled out with the following digits. First row: 2, 3, 6, 4, 1, 5, 8, 9, 7; second row: 7, 4, 9, 3, 8, 2, 6, 5, 1; third row: 8, 5, 1, 9, 6, 7, 4, 2, 3; fourth row: 1, 6, 4, 8, 2, 9, 7, 3, 5; fifth row: 3, 8, 7, 1, 5, 4, 2, 6, 9; sixth row: 5, 9, 2, 7, 3, 6, 1, 4, 8; seventh row: 9, 7, 5, 2, 4, 1, 3, 8, 6; eighth row: 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 1, 4; ninth row: 4, 1, 8, 6, 9, 3, 5, 7, 2. The four cells forming a two-by-two square at each corner of the grid are shaded blue, and the 16 cells surrounding the nine cells in the center of the grid are shaded orange.

GamesAugust 2, 2025

Math Puzzle: Sudoku Surprise