Puzzling Adventures59 articles archived since 1845

Puzzing Adventures: Games and Virtue

Puzzling Adventures: The Fair Way to Get a College Scholarship: Let's Make a Deal

How should teachers rank their students' performance?

Puzzling Adventures: You've heard of Sudoku. But what about Sudokill?

A computer science professor encourages his students to break Sudoku's rules

Puzzling Adventures: Snow Walkers--How to Clear Streets of Snow More Effectively

A fictional city grapples with the white stuff

Puzzling Adventures: Versatility for Another Planet: Making a Better Mars Rover

Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?

Puzzling Adventures: What Happens When Sea Levels Rise? Wet Walls on Whit Island

Can you save a fictitious island's residents from being swept out to sea?

Puzzling Adventures: Alien Genetics

What if, on another planet, it took five parents to produce a brood?

Puzzling Adventures: Building the Perfect Alarm Clock

What if you could reengineer the buttons on your alarm clock to reduce the number of times you needed to push them to set it?

Puzzling Adventures: The Bermuda Toy Car Race

How to use remote-controlled cars to figure out the best way to get from Connecticut to Bermuda

Puzzling Adventures: River Run--How to Make the Most of Going Upstream

In this puzzle, figure out how fast each leg of your trip should be to make it as fast as possible