Explore: Thinking Puzzles

Situation puzzles, often referred to as minute mysteries, lateral thinking puzzles or "yes/no" puzzles, are puzzles in which participants are to construct

puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles.

Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including

a puzzle, the solver must find a solution that satisfies the given conditions. Mathematical puzzles require mathematics to solve them. Logic puzzles are

typeface. Other puzzles challenge the solver to rearrange a crude matchstick picture. Some matchstick puzzles require lateral thinking, such as changing

puzzles in the widely used XSokoban test suite. Despite these advances, even the most sophisticated solvers cannot solve many highly complex puzzles that

and lateral thinking puzzles, while later editions added other types of brain teasers including tangrams and stick puzzles. Lateral thinking problems are

Nine Dots Puzzle, and the sewing machine (automating the work rather than adding more workers) as examples, among many others, of lateral thinking. Lateral

1908-03-02. p. 6. "Three Puzzles Are Amusing". The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. North Platte, Nebraska. 1910-05-20. p. 7. "Three Puzzles are Amusing". Audubon

Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box or thinking beyond the box and, especially in Australia, thinking outside the square) is an idiom