Mr. Smith drove at a steady clip along the highway, his wife beside him. “Have you noticed,” he said, “that those annoying signs for Flatz beer seem to be regularly spaced along the road? I wonder how ...

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I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person). Still, I like to think I have a solid grip on basic math: I can usually gauge whether a ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

Label the rectangles correctly with the letters A to I. Show puzzle solution Only the four blue-shaded rectangles below intersect three other rectangles, and therefore they must be F, G, H and I. H ...

Rose and Ivy are logic-savvy landscapers tasked with creating a rectangular garden. Their client has told Rose the desired width and Ivy the desired length (both positive integers). One day their ...

It’s easy to dismiss games as a distraction with all that's going on in the world today. Crossword puzzles, word searches, Sudoku — they might seem like frivolous pursuits compared to the stream of ...

Squaring a square sounds simple, but the math behind it is one of the strangest puzzles ever created. It requires cutting a square into smaller squares—all different sizes—with a pattern that doesn’t ...

Two professors, one of English and one of mathematics, were having drinks in the faculty club bar. “It is curious,” said the English professor, “how some poets can write one immortal line and nothing ...

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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...