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Here we offer you a variety of puzzles - some great classics, some of them our own original content - that you can play on your own or with friends. You'll also find a few illusions, magic tricks and other amusements.

For the most part they're intended to be played with simple props, such as coins, or by cutting out paper shapes, away from the computer. Check them out on your screen and, for the ones that intrigue you, print out the challenge and play it wherever it suits you.

Play Six Puzzles of the Months

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The Eighth Triangle
The Eighth Triangle
Seven matchstick triangles are scattered around in quite a chaotic order. How to move just three matchsticks so that an additional triangle would appear?
Play  |  Download  |  Author  |  Matchstick Puzzles
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The Rock Climber Maze
The Rock Climber Maze
Climb up a mountain in a little bit unusual way since all of the mountain's rocks are colored in one of the four colors and your route to the top depends on what color sequence you choose.
Play  |  Download  |  Authors  |  Mazes
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Rose Garden
Rose Garden
A gardener has an ambitious plan to replant his flower bed, increasing the number of the 4-rose-straight-line rows but keeping the overall number of roses intact? Would it be possible?
Play  |  Download  |  Pencil 'n' Paper Puzzles
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The Egg of Columbus
The Egg of Columbus
Break the Egg apart and arrange it in the other way to complete a few extra figures. Explore on your own and invent new shapes!
Play  |  Download  |  Tangrams
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Read the Message
Read the Message
Some message is hidden in a grid in which only several cells are shaded. Should any special approach be employed to read the message clearly in the grid?
Play  |  Download  |  Word Puzzles
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The Sedan-Chair Puzzle
The Sedan Chair Puzzle
A sedan chair is useful for not too distant trips. But what to do when it rains? Close the sedan chair up and get a covered square box in the simplest possible way!
Play  |  Download  |  Dissection Puzzles

Download New PDF Collection

Download PDF Print ‘n’ Play Collection of the 12 Coin Puzzles

Play New Puzzles of the Previous Months

Eight Checkered L's The Four Sevens How Old is the Rose-Red City? Dodecagon-to-Square Dissection Triangle in Addition The Three Dice Sum
Sphere Between Cubes Digits in the Square Pearls in the Grid 2 The Triangular Grid Square to Triangle The Theobalds Maze
The Cat Colored Umbrellas A Star of Numbers      
Last Updated: June 27, 2008 top
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The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles by Serhiy Grabarchuk, Peter Grabarchuk, and Serhiy Grabarchuk, Jr.
The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles
More than a hundred original and creative puzzles from the Grabarchuk family group. The puzzles collected in the book are very different but they all require "out of the box" approach and are based heavily on a visual appeal...
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