Puzzles and maze games, intended to test the ingenuity of the player, are the focus of this category.
Recommended Resources
Archimedes Lab is a website that provides a variety of puzzles to help develop your mind. You can find Latin wordplays, number gains, allusions and paradoxes on the site. The site also has a "create your own" section if you would like to create your own puzzles.
http://www.archimedes-lab.org/
Contains resources that helps in making puzzles of various types and forms. Includes puzzle generators and programs for wordsearch, crossword, word scramble, bagels, math, quotes and optical illusions.
http://www.armoredpenguin.com
Offers free online chess games with information on chess rules and the basics, openings, game tactics and strategies. Includes a game finder, downloads, chess set reviews, daily puzzle and online lessons.
http://www.chess.com
Maintained by Andrea Gilbert, Bill Mitchell, and Mildew the Cat, the site includes several online puzzles and mazes of various types, along with a history of the development of mazes.
http://www.clickmazes.com/
Provides puzzles for you to solve. The puzzles range in difficulty from easy six piece cuts to complex +240 piece cuts. The website also sells a range of traditional and 3 dimensional jigsaw puzzles. You6 can share your jigsaw solving scores with others on this website.
http://www.jigzone.com
Offering a selection of interactive online puzzles, including hidden objects, mazes, word searches, cryptograms, connect-the-dots, jigsaws, math puzzles, and others, some of which may be printed on shirts and gifts. A customizable calendar is available for sale.
http://www.kids-puzzles.com/
Search for answers on tough American-style crossword puzzles by simply entering the clue and pattern. Includes an anagram search index, cryptograms help and dictionary word search.
http://www.oneacross.com
Hundreds of printable mazes are available here for free, which can be downloaded and printed out, including simple, easy, medium, hard, and difficult mazes, as well as a maze book of two hundred and fifty mazes.
http://www.printablemazes.net/
The Rubik's Cube website shows how these cubes can be solved and new ways to play with them. The website also provides a Rubik's Academy that helps people learn how to solve the cube. Whether you want to solve 3x3 cubes, 4x4 cubes or 5x5 cubes, you can learn how here.
http://www.rubiks.com
