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 ...

Here’s a fairly recent twist on an old type of logic puzzle. A logician vacationing in the South Pacific finds himself on an island inhabited by the two proverbial groups of liars and truth-tellers.

Are you among the top 15% of brainiacs in the country who can solve this math problem? Brainteasers and puzzles are an excellent way to keep your mind as healthy as the rest of your body. They can ...

For many, maths was just another subject in school—sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating. But when it comes to brain teasers with mathematical twists, the experience is entirely different. These ...

She’s right—using simultaneous equations does get really complicated, and if you’d like to send me your work for the solution, I’d love to see it. But the system is also kind of a trick. Like a sudoku ...

A Brain Teaser is a fun way to challenge your thinking and logical skills. In these brain teasers, maths riddles are also a type of brain teaser, which are in numerical form, equation-based. These ...

A brain teaser challenge is a type of IQ test that mostly involves solving a puzzle, cracking a code, finding a hidden object or mistake, or detecting the fault in the image. Brain teaser puzzles test ...

A geometry puzzle first posed in 1966 has baffled mathematicians for decades. Known as the moving sofa problem, it asks for ...

In the April Insights puzzle, I tried to guide readers down a path that might be best described as “experimental mathematics.” The goal was to rediscover two constants by iterating simple arithmetic ...