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Puzzleshttp://www.mathpuzzle.com/ is fantastic! Constantly updated with everything happening in recreational mathematics. Another great puzzle site: http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/puzzle.html No list of puzzles sites would be complete without raving about the MIT Mystery Hunt Sequence PuzzlesI have several sequence puzzles, so they have their own page. Magic SquaresI used the magic square puzzle when talking about Benjamin Franklin. Clickmazes has all sorts of state mazes, including a 5x5 step-over maze the cub scouts have enjoy. Polyomino AdditionPolyomino are shapes made out of a certain number of (usually) squares. For example, a set of pentaminos consists of all the shapes one can make out of 5 squares. The usual puzzle is to fit them into some shape, such as a rectangle. Polyomino Addition is a fun twist on polyominos. Given 2 different sets of polyominos (2-4 pieces in each set of 3- 4- or 5-ominos), the challenge is to find a shape which both sets can make. http://www.stetson.edu/%7Eefriedma/polyadd/ Japanese puzzlesDeductive Logic puzzles are very popular in Japan. It is believed that doing a puzzle each day will keep the mind healthy and reduce the risk of senility and parkinson's disease. SudokuThis is a simple and very popular deductive logic game. It is played with numbers but is not a math puzzle, since it could just as easily be played with the letters A-I. Fairly good range of difficulty. http://www.playr.co.uk/sudoku/index.php SlitherLinkI like this puzzle. It has good depth for difficult puzzles, and a lot of patterns which can be recognized. This site has online versions of several other Japanese puzzles as well. The largest size can be challenging. KakuroThis puzzle involves some actual arithmetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Sums Inductive Logic PuzzlesSome Logic Puzzles on this site. Formal LogicLewis Carroll was an math professor and expert in formal symbolic logic. Here are some nice puzzles: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~hile/math100/logice.htm |