As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve making a series of inferences ...

Brain teasers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are age-based riddles designed to test your logical reasoning. Others are visual puzzles that play tricks on your perception. Then there are the ones ...

Here’s a fairly recent twist on an old type of logic puzzle. A logician vacationing in the South Pacific finds himself on an island inhabited by the two proverbial groups of liars and truth-tellers.

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative ...

The ability to solve maths picture puzzles, especially when timed, is a good measure of your logical and pattern recognition skills. Solving maths puzzles requires you to be mentally sharp and agile ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...

Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, City St George's, University of London Mathematics is a “science which requires a great amount of imagination”, said the ...