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 ...

Flex your math muscles with this weekend’s brain teaser. Play now ...

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.

For decades, one of mathematics' most famous unsolved puzzles resisted the efforts of researchers around the world.

Math Puzzle: Only intelligent minds can solve this math puzzle by finding the missing value in 17 seconds. Are you one of them? Try now! A math puzzle is a type of brain teaser that tests the reader's ...

This month, we visit a trendy (but fictional) spa with an unusual feature: hot mud beds. You lay a plastic sheet on the mud. Then you lay your body upon the sheet. Without any direct contact between ...

In honor of April Fools’ Day, I offer the puzzling case of the Lesser Fool. In a fictional town, there lived an odd wanderer. People would present him with two amounts of money or goods and ask which ...

Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

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 ...

You'll need to make sure you pay close attention to the details of this puzzle if you want to answer it correctly. Solving brainteasers is an excellent way to keep yourself mentally fit. Training your ...