A new math puzzle designed to challenge readers of all ages is coming to the Daily Press. David Genter, a puzzle developer ...

When two hands are of the same type, such as a pair or a flush, first check the cards involved in the pattern. The higher ...

Puzzle 1: You are given nine gold coins that look identical. You are told that one of them is fake, and that this coin weighs ...

Pythagoras meets Fibonacci at the Lapin Agile snooker emporium. The post Math Puzzle for January 9, 2026 appeared first on ...

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 ...

You and I go out to eat at a conveyer-belt sushi restaurant. It serves four types of sushi: ahi roll, Boston roll, ...

The inside of a bus may not seem like the ideal place to rekindle your interest in math, but a group of mathematicians is betting it will. Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of ...

A brain teaser challenge mostly involves solving a puzzle, cracking a code, finding a hidden object or mistake, or detecting the fault in the image. Frequent practice of these activities improves ...

I like sudoku as much as anyone, but a change of pace might be nice occasionally. Enter Sweet 16, a new math puzzle game. As the name suggests it involves the numbers 1 through 16, and it's a bit like ...

It's a math puzzle designed for third graders, but many adults are having trouble solving it. The puzzle looks something like Scrabble, with a series of boxes that snake up, down and across a page.