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Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

In 1867, French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet proved something that seemed like common sense: if you know how far apart ...

Have you played the puzzle game Tangram? I remember, as a child, being fascinated by how just seven simple wooden triangles and other shapes could offer endless entertainment. Unlike LEGO, the Tangram ...

Try your hand at these tricky visual puzzles and give your brain a boost!

A carpenter, working with a buzz saw, wishes to cut a wooden cube, three inches on a side, into 27 one-inch cubes. This can be easily done by making six cuts through the cube, keeping the pieces ...

Below is a five-by-five chess board with the central square poked out. Place a knight, bishop, rook or queen in the upper-left corner and find a path that ends at the bottom-right corner that visits ...

A viral puzzle posted by TikTok duo @themakeshiftproject has left millions scratching their heads, with just one per cent of people reportedly able to solve it in under 30 seconds. Brian, one-half of ...

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 ...

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