Puzzle - Types of Puzzles

Types of Puzzles

The large number of puzzles that have been created can be divided into categories, for example a maze is a type of tour puzzle. Other categories include construction puzzles, stick puzzles, tiling puzzles, transport puzzles, disentanglement puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, lock puzzles, folding puzzles, combination puzzles and mechanical puzzles.

  • Lateral thinking puzzles, which can be open ended and sometimes referred to as situation puzzles, or 'closed' lateral thinking puzzles which are designed to have only one correct and obvious answer.
  • Logic puzzles using a chess board, such as Knight's Tour and Eight queens.
  • Mathematical problems such as the missing square puzzle. Many of these are "impossible puzzles", such as the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, Water, gas, and electricity and Three cups problem. See List of impossible puzzles.
  • Mathematical puzzles
  • Mechanical puzzles such as the Rubik's Cube, Soma cube, Tower of Hanoi, Burr puzzle and impossible bottles.
  • Meta-puzzles are puzzles which unite or incorporate elements of other puzzles. It is often found in puzzlehunts.
  • Paper-and-pencil puzzles such as Uncle Art's Funland, Connect the dots, Nonograms, and the Logic puzzles published by Nikoli: Sudoku, Slitherlink, Kakuro, Fillomino, Hashiwokakero, Heyawake, Hitori, Light Up, Masyu, Number Link, Nurikabe, Ripple Effect, Shikaku and Kuromasu; see List of Nikoli puzzle types
  • Peg solitaire
  • Picture puzzles, such as sliding puzzles like the fifteen puzzle; jigsaws and variants such as Puzz-3D.
  • Puzzle video game
  • Sangaku
  • Sokoban
  • Spot the difference
  • Tangram
  • Word puzzles, including anagrams, crosswords, word searches and ciphers.
  • The Anagram Jigsaw is a jigsaw puzzle where pieces are rearranged for two correct solutions.

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