Editing Mathematical puzzle (section)

== List of mathematical puzzles ==
=== Numbers, arithmetic, and algebra ===
* [[Cross-figure]]s or cross number puzzles
* [[Dyson number]]s
* [[Four fours]]
* [[KenKen]]
* [[Water pouring puzzle]]
* [[The monkey and the coconuts]]
* [[Pirate loot problem]]
* [[Verbal arithmetic]]s
* [[24 (puzzle)|24 Game]]

=== Combinatorial ===
* [[Cryptograms]]
* [[N-puzzle|Fifteen Puzzle]]
* [[Kakuro]]
* [[Rubik's Cube]] and other [[Mechanical puzzle#Sequential movement|sequential movement puzzles]]
*[[Str8ts]] a number puzzle based on sequences
* [[Sudoku]]
* [[Sujiko]]
* [[Think-a-Dot]]
* [[Tower of Hanoi]]
* [[Bridges Game]]

=== Analytical or differential ===
* [[Ant on a rubber rope]]

* See also: [[Zeno's paradoxes]]

=== Probability ===
* [[Monty Hall problem]]  <!--- Not a game --->

=== Tiling, packing, and dissection ===
* [[Bedlam cube]]
* [[Conway puzzle]]
* [[Mutilated chessboard problem]]
* [[Packing problem]]
* [[Pentomino]]es tiling
* [[Slothouber–Graatsma puzzle]]
* [[Soma cube]]
* [[T puzzle]]
* [[Tangram]]

=== Involves a board ===
* [[Conway's Game of Life]] <!--- Not a game --->
* [[Mutilated chessboard problem]]
* [[Peg solitaire]]
* [[Sudoku]] <!--- Not a game --->
* [[Nine dots problem]]

==== Chessboard tasks ====
* [[Eight queens puzzle]]
* [[Knight's Tour]]
* [[No-three-in-line problem]]

=== Topology, knots, graph theory ===
The fields of [[knot theory]] and [[topology]], especially their non-intuitive conclusions, are often seen as a part of recreational mathematics.

* [[Disentanglement puzzle]]s
* [[Seven Bridges of Königsberg]]
* [[Water, gas, and electricity]]
* [[Slitherlink]]

=== Mechanical ===
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* [[Rubik's Cube]]
* [[Think-a-Dot]]
* [[Matchstick puzzle]]

=== 0-player puzzles ===
* [[Conway's Game of Life]] <!--- Not a game --->
* [[Flexagon]]  <!-- Not a game -->
* [[Polyominoes]]