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 ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

It might not seem like there's enough information to solve these logic puzzles—but that's part of the fun!

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved a math puzzle that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y, and z ...

Today, in the viral puzzle series, there is a random matchstick puzzle given, which led me to solve it in 5 Seconds. Do you all also want to solve this matchstick puzzle of a brain teaser? Okay, try ...

A remote village in the mountains is difficult to access and has few inhabitants. Because of their long isolation, they have split into three groups with strange behavior patterns. The truth tellers ...

Mathematicians have not yet succeeded in finding a formula for the number of different ways a road map can be folded, given n creases in the paper. Some notion of the complexity of this question can ...