49 Sunflowers Puzzle |
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For a cheerful start let’s have a field of sunflowers to puzzle over. |
Acorns Puzzle |
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The squirrel needs help gathering all the acorns in the oak wood. |
Akif’s Puzzle |
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An elegant puzzle to solve in the smallest number of moves. |
Alcuin’s River Puzzles |
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Simple puzzles from possibly the earliest book of puzzles. |
All Change Puzzle |
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A simple puzzle to turn the board from all orange to all blue. |
Ancient Greek Puzzles |
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The oldest arithmetical puzzles from Greece but easy to solve. |
Archipelago |
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Aka “Islands” and “Bridges”. Link all the islands by bridges. |
Arrows Maze Puzzle |
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Follow the arrows around the board until you hit the target. |
Ball Push Puzzle |
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Mix up the balls and then try to put the colours back together. |
Ball Tumble Puzzle |
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The classic puzzle where you must clear the board of the coloured balls. |
Bubbles Puzzle |
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Blowing soap bubbles to build up your score is the challenge. |
Button Mania |
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A number puzzle using buttons to set all the numbers to zero. |
Cave Explorer |
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Explore the cave by torchlight to discover wonders. |
Chomsky’s Dream |
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A bit different. A mind puzzle rather than a board puzzle. |
Clive’s Puzzle |
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A magazine puzzle over 40 years old known to millions of people. |
Coconuts Puzzle |
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How many coconuts were collected? The monkey got five. |
Classic Solitaire |
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The solitaire you know from the well-known, well-loved toy. |
Codebreaker |
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Known for many years as the plastic puzzle ‘Mastermind’ |
Codeword |
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The famous crossword puzzle without clues. Several levels to choose. |
Coin Puzzle |
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Put gold coins on the board placing them according to the clues. |
Connections Wall |
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Sort 16 clues into four groups of four related items. |
Cross Sticks |
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A matchsticks puzzle to test on your family on quiet afternoons. |
Crossword |
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We had to have an example of a UK-style crossword. |
Dominosa |
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So simple, this dominoes puzzle. But can you solve it first time? |
Double Slide |
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A new puzzle that promises to be the most addictive here. |
Fifteen Puzzle |
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A classic sliding puzzle that has been around since 1878. |
Firelight Puzzle |
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A medieval puzzle with braziers to keep lit on a cold night. |
Flood It |
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A colourful, dynamic way to use this computer characteristic. |
Froghopper Puzzle |
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Another classic puzzle with frogs hopping about on lily pads. |
G.C.H.Q. Puzzles |
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Four difficult thinking puzzles set by cryptographic experts. |
Henry’s Puzzles |
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A small selection of Henry Dudeney’s mathematical puzzles. |
Hitori |
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Shade numbers so rest appear once in each row and column. |
Hoppity |
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A simple cross-the-board puzzle based on Halma. |
Hungry Rabbit Puzzle |
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You need to build a rabbit-proof fence in the field and save the cabbages. |
Hymn Board Puzzle |
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Henry Dudeney’s most difficult puzzle with a full solution. |
Ice Maze Puzzles |
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Three puzzles where you leap between the ice floes to reach solid ground. |
Jigsaw |
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At last a playable webpage jigsaw puzzle completes the compendium. |
Kakuro |
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Another Japanese number puzzle once called “Cross Sums”. |
Key Spinout Puzzle |
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All you do is turn the tumblers to free the key. Simples! |
Knight’s Tour |
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Another classic. A chess knight must visit all the squares on the board. |
KuroMasu Puzzle |
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Not often seen, this is a clever Japanese number puzzle. |
Laserlight Puzzle |
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A very simple puzzle to explain, a mite less easy to solve. |
Lawnmower |
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Mowing the lawn to remove all the daisies is tricky. You’ll see why. |
Leaf Fall |
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Place leaves according to the rules to create a colourful solution. |
Letter Slide |
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A 21st century puzzle which, like Codeword, is a crossword without clues. |
Lights Out Puzzle |
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Switch all the lights off to solve the puzzle. Then you can create your own. |
Living World Puzzle |
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A mesmerising puzzle to create self-sustaining life in a small world. |
Locks Puzzle |
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We like simple puzzles and this is definitely one but still fun. |
LT Puzzles |
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The picture gives you a clue how to solve these puzzles. |
Magic Buttons Puzzle |
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Choose a button and magically another one changes colour. |
Market Challenge |
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Farmer Giles’ cattle or your sheep. Who will win at the market? |
Master SuDoku |
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Seriously challenging puzzle needing advanced techniques shown. |
Match Four |
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A simple puzzle that needs some clear thinking to solve. |
Mazes |
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The classic maze with some unusual variations for you to try. |
Memory Puzzle |
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A turning card memory puzzle on an animal theme with elephant cards. |
Missing Person |
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Look for the famous missing person in these two amazing pictures. |
Monty Hall Problem |
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A bit different. A quiz show mind puzzle rather than a board puzzle. |
Mousetrap |
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Find the hidden mouse. Choose for him to stay still or move about. |
Oasis Puzzle |
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As chief water engineer, the irrigation plan depends on you. |
Open Sesame! |
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If magic fails then you must use your wits to open the doors! |
Parking Lot Puzzle |
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Aka ”Rush Hour”. Help the red car to leave the parking lot. |
Patchwork Puzzle |
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Sort the patchwork squares to recreate the original quilt. |
Peg Jump Puzzle |
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Two versions of the little wooden jumping puzzle to solve. |
Pencils Puzzles |
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Two puzzles with pencils which change colour and disappear. |
Pennant Puzzle |
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A sliding blocks puzzle which requires patience. It first appeared in 1909. |
Picture Puzzles |
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Four pictures to re-assemble will test your observation skill. |
Plank Puzzle |
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Not quite a maze, more a jungle adventure — with added peril. |
Polar Journey |
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Your snowmobile has to make it from base camp to the pole. |
Presidents Puzzle |
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A knowledge puzzle with a follow-up English alternative. |
Puzzle Boxes |
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Pack the valuable boxes carefully on the tray so that none slide about. |
Ralph’s Puzzle |
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This puzzle may date back 400 years. It is set in a tavern. |
Rebus Puzzle |
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Discover the hidden words in these easy image puzzles. |
Red Donkey Puzzle |
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An ancient puzzle re-invented several times in different countries. |
Rolling Cube |
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A simple but intriguing puzzle. Rarely seen on the web. |
Sam’s Puzzles |
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A small selection from the large number of Sam Loyd’s brainteaser puzzles. |
Sheepdog Puzzle |
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Help the dog collect the sheep from the field into the pen. |
Sliding Doors |
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Two sliding puzzles with one-way doors to add extra difficulty. |
Slide Puzzles |
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Three interesting picture puzzles to solve by sliding the blocks. |
Slider |
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A new and clever variant on the many sliding puzzles. |
Spot The Difference |
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Simple observation solves these photo puzzles of world cities. |
Star Turn Puzzle |
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A new twist in puzzling involving sliding the piece and turning the board. |
States Puzzle |
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For everyone who finds the United States a puzzling country. |
SuDoku Puzzle |
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Eight ‘Number Place’ puzzles in various different styles. |
Squares Puzzle |
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A puzzle you could make with pins and string. Or draw on the screen here. |
Suguru Blank Puzzle |
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A particular example of a new puzzle from Japan with a twist. |
Tangles Puzzle |
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A connecting puzzle needing all your skill to solve. |
Tapa Puzzle |
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A Turkish games designer created this unusual puzzle in 2007. |
The CUBE |
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Do you remember the world’s best-selling puzzle? Still going strong. |
Three Rings Puzzle |
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Three rings to be re-assembled and three puzzles to choose from. |
The Puzzler |
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Turn the wheels to bring the red wheel together behind the blue. |
Tiles Puzzle |
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Inpired by the beauty of tile patterns here is a creative puzzle. |
Tile Solitaire |
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A tile-matching puzzle using Mah Jongg tiles and ‘famous faces’ tiles. |
Tom & Jerry Roller |
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A different slide puzzle where rows and columns roll up and down. |
Tower Blocks |
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A very simple test of your spatial awareness and reflexes. |
Tower of Hanoi Puzzle |
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A patience puzzle said to be based on a Brahmin creation legend. |
Traffic Lights |
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Even changing traffic lights can be made into a tricky puzzle. |
Train Tracks |
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A favourite newspaper and magazine puzzle ideal for the screen. |
Triangles Puzzles |
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So simple to solve but fascinating to invent more of the same. |
Turnstile Puzzle |
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Turn the discs to rearrange the colours to their starting position. |
Two by Two Puzzle |
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A minimalist but colourful puzzle to exercise the little grey cells. |
World Countries Puzzle |
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How well do you know the world we live in? A puzzle for all the family. |
Wordled Puzzle |
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A simple puzzle created by Josh Wardle in October 2021. |
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