Occasional Puzzles - What, we said they were occasional!
After a long hiatus, we're back! Scroll down to skip straight to today's puzzle. If you've forgotten about us, Occasional Puzzles is a newsletter that...
Occasional Puzzles - Let's shake on it
Today's puzzle is from a dedicated Occasional Puzzles reader and tortellini lover from Silicon Valley. Today's Puzzle In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
WORD WEDNESDAY - The good, the bad, and the weird friend who keeps throwing parties
Today's Puzzle Your very quirky friend (yes, the same one who made you solve logic puzzles at her birthday) has invited you over for a dinner party. You are...
Math Monday - Adventures in Puzzlevania 2
Today's Puzzle You find yourself, once again, in the magical land of Puzzlevania. This time, you are here to purchase some baked goods from the famous...
Occasional Puzzles - Tipping the scales
Today's Puzzle You have ten bags of coins, each containing 1000 coins. One of the bags, though, is full of counterfeit coins - instead of weighing 1 gram...
Occasional Puzzles - Three logicians walk into a bar...
Today's Puzzle Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "Do all three of you want a drink?" The first logician says, "I don't know." The second...
Occasional Puzzles - Oaky, with a hint of...poison?
Reader Raphaël graduates from Harvard University this week with his PhD in Applied Mathematics. Congratulations, Raphaël! Today's Puzzle As any good...
Occasional Puzzles - Adventures in Puzzlevania
Today's Puzzle In the magical land of Puzzlevania, you are on your way to visit your friend Theo for his 10th birthday. As is tradition in Puzzlevania, you...
Occasional Puzzles - Give this one a tri
Today's Puzzle Ten circles are arranged in a triangle, as above. Turn the triangle upside down by moving just three of the circles (and no, just turning your...
WORD WEDNESDAY - What's the name of the game?
Today's Puzzle Name a well-known game that's eight letters long. Drop the fifth letter. Move the first letter into the vacated spot and you'll spell a part...
MATH MONDAY - Evapoweight
Today's Puzzle Suppose you have 100 pounds of cucumbers that are 99% water by weight. You leave the cucumbers out in the sun until they're 98% water (again,...
Occasional Puzzles - Let them eat cake
Occasional Puzzles readers across the country wrote in to report that yesterday's Word Wednesday was too easy, with feedback ranging from "on par with my...
WORD WEDNESDAY - Put. A. Word. On. It.
Today's Puzzle What one word can you put at the end of each of the following to make new words? a back down for in on out to up wind To be clear, you're...
Occasional Puzzles - You need braiiiins for this one
Today's Puzzle It is nightfall, and you and three of your friends are being pursued by hideous, brain-hungry zombies (seriously, how did you get yourself...
Occasional Puzzles - Pronouns for pro moms
Happy Mother's Day! In honor of the authors' wonderful moms, who both majored in English (and definitely swiped left on last Monday's puzzle), here's a bonus...
WORD WEDNESDAY - Three of a kind
Today's Puzzle What do these three words have in common? JOB POLISH HERB Source: Giphy Monday’s Puzzle - Swipe left if you hate Math Monday Find a six-digit...
MATH MONDAY - Swipe left if you hate Math Monday
Today's Puzzle Find a six-digit number with all unique digits such that, if you take the last digit and move it to the front (i.e. take the rightmost digit...
Occasional Puzzles - Does your answer hold water?
We were thrilled to receive so many responses to Wednesday's puzzle! Thank you to everyone who wrote in. We love hearing from you. All in all, we counted 11...
WORD WEDNESDAY - Quadruple or nothing
This week's Word Wednesday comes to us from reader Steve Cowan. Today's Puzzle Our puzzle today is all about homophones. You probably remember these from...
MATH MONDAY - Easy as 1-2-3 (4-5-6-7-8-9)
Okay, yes, we hear you - the locker puzzle was really hard. This week's Math Monday is a little less diabolical (but it's not, like, easy or anything...where...