Mathematical puzzles make up an integral part of recreational mathematics. They have specific rules as do multiplayer video games, but they do not usually involve competition between two or more players. Instead, to solve such a puzzle, the solver must find a solution that satisfies the given conditions. Mathematical puzzles require mathematics to solve them. Logic puzzles are a common type of mathematical puzzle.
Conway's Game of Life and fractals, as two examples, may also be considered mathematical puzzles even though the solver interacts with them only at the beginning by providing a set of initial conditions. After these conditions are set, the rules of the puzzle determine all subsequent changes and moves. Many of the puzzles are well known because they were discussed by Martin Gardner in his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. Mathematical puzzles are sometimes used to motivate students in teaching elementary school math problem solving techniques.
This list is not complete.
Video Mathematical puzzle
List of mathematical puzzles
The following categories are not disjoint;
Numbers, arithmetic, and algebra
- Cross-figures or Cross number Puzzle
- Dyson numbers
- Four fours
- KenKen
- Liquid Water Pouring Puzzles
- Feynman Long Division Puzzles
- Pirate loot problem
- Verbal arithmetics
- 24 Game
Combinatorial
- Cryptograms
- Fifteen Puzzle
- Kakuro
- Rubik's Cube and other sequential movement puzzles
- Str8ts a number puzzle based on sequences
- Sudoku
- Sujiko
- Think-a-Dot
- Tower of Hanoi
- Diamond 25
- Bridges Game
Analytical or differential
- Ant on a rubber rope
- See also: Zeno's paradoxes
Probability
- Monty Hall problem
Tiling, packing, and dissection
- Bedlam cube
- Conway puzzle
- Mutilated chessboard problem
- Packing problem
- Pentominoes tiling
- Slothouber-Graatsma puzzle
- Soma cube
- T puzzle
- Tangram
Involves a board
- Conway's Game of Life
- Mutilated chessboard problem
- Peg solitaire
- Sudoku
Chessboard tasks
- Eight queens puzzle
- Knight's Tour
- No-three-in-line problem
Topology, knots, graph theory
The fields of knot theory and topology, especially their non-intuitive conclusions, are often seen as a part of recreational mathematics.
- Disentanglement puzzles
- Seven Bridges of Königsberg
- Water, gas, and electricity
- Slitherlink
Mechanical
- Rubik's Cube
- Think-a-Dot
0-player puzzles
- Conway's Game of Life
- Flexagon
- Polyominoes
Maps Mathematical puzzle
References
External links
- Historical Math Problems/Puzzles at Mathematical Association of America Convergence
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