Lateral thinking puzzles are designed to truly test your creative thinking skills. With these challenging riddles that require lateral thinking, you have to step outside the box and consider all the ...

Easy puzzles come with all kinds of mental benefits.

If you have ever taken an IQ-type test, then you are familiar with “odd-one-out” puzzles. Most such puzzles present figures, images, or symbols in a sequence, with the goal being to spot the one item ...

We’re on the road this week, sans computer. In place of the Sunday Puzzle column, I thought I’d turn you on to Futility Closet, and some lateral thinking puzzles recently featured on its podcast. What ...

Or rather, more accurately, it requires outside the “pen” thinking — pigpen thinking, to be exact. This week’s puzzle is an exercise is practical pig ownership. It was submitted by reader Mary L., who ...

There are riddles, and then there are riddles. Lateral-thinking puzzles fall into the latter category. Among the trickiest riddles out there, these brain games will give your noggin a serious workout.

I have shared puzzles based on arithmetic in previous posts. They generated quite a bit of correspondence, acknowledging both their challenging nature and the possibility of different solutions to the ...