List of Mathematical Puzzles

The following categories are not disjoint; some puzzles fall into more than one category.
Numbers, arithmetic, and algebra

  • Cross-figures or Cross number Puzzle
  • Dyson numbers
  • Four fours
  • KenKen
  • Feynman Long Division Puzzles
  • Pirate loot problem
  • Verbal arithmetics
Combinatorial
  • Cryptograms
  • Fifteen Puzzle
  • Kakuro
  • Rubik's Cube and other sequential movement puzzles
  • Str8ts a number puzzle based on sequences
  • Sudoku
  • Think-a-Dot
  • Tower of Hanoi
Analytical or differential
  • Ant on a rubber rope
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