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There are eight doors in front of you labeled A through H. Behind one of the doors is a prize. A guard is aware of the ...

A maths professor challenges students with a number puzzle sequence: 3, 8, 15, 24, 35, ?. Can you find the mysterious number?

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 sudoku in the sense that the player must put the numbers into a square array ...

Test your knowledge ahead of the 2023 New Year as Gergely Dudás, a graphic artist from Budapest, Hungary, shares a coffee cup math puzzle. Can you solve it?

The world’s oldest collection of math puzzles had seen better days. In 1865, the British Museum received a brittle and breaking scroll of papyrus that was well over 3,000 years old.

Two teenage girls cracked a mathematical code that has stood for thousands of years: Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, ...