Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

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

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...

Some people scroll past puzzles. Others stop, squint, and dive in. If you're the second type, then you might just be a math legend. There's a new viral math brain teaser that’s testing how fast people ...

Brain teasers are fun little puzzles that make you think in different ways. They might look simple at first, but they often have a twist that surprises you. Solving them gives your brain a good ...

Are you ready for this math riddle test? Okay, in today’s math riddle, a series of numbers is used as logical reasoning to test your mental ability. So, can you prove you're in the 1% league with an ...

In 1996, the mathematical logician George Boolos (above) published a paper describing “the hardest logic puzzle ever” which he attributed to the logician Raymond Smullyan. The puzzle has gained much ...

Last week, we asked you to solve ‘The Hardest Logic Puzzle In The World.” This week, we’re asking you to do it again – with a brand new puzzle. Let me begin by stating the obvious: The notion that any ...

We are hardly ever consciously aware that we use logic to solve everyday problems. But what is logic? Is the logic used to prove theorems in mathematics the same kind that we use for our practical ...