By : Link
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person’s ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles.
Puzzles are often created to be a form of entertainment but they can also arise from serious mathematical or logical problems. In such cases, their solution may be a significant contribution to mathematical research.[1]
Genres
Puzzles can be categorized as:
- Lateral thinking puzzles, also called “situation puzzles”
- Mathematical puzzles include the missing square puzzle and many impossible puzzles — puzzles which have no solution, such as the Seven Bridges of Königsberg, the three cups problem, and three utilities problem
- Sangaku (Japanese temple tablets with geometry puzzles)
- Mechanical puzzles or dexterity puzzles such as the Rubik’s Cube and Soma cubecan be stimulating toys for children or recreational activities for adults.
- A chess problem is a puzzle that uses chess pieces on a chess board. Examples are the knight’s tour and the eight queens puzzle.
- combination puzzles like Peg solitaire
- construction puzzles such as stick puzzles
- disentanglement puzzles,
- folding puzzles
- jigsaw puzzles. Puzz 3D is a three-dimensional variant of this type.
- lock puzzles
- A puzzle box can be used to hide something — jewelry, for instance.
- sliding puzzles (also called sliding tile puzzles) such as the 15 Puzzle and Sokoban
- tiling puzzles like Tangram
- Metapuzzles are puzzles which unite elements of other puzzles.
- Paper-and-pencil puzzles such as Uncle Art’s Funland, connect the dots, and nonograms
- Also the logic puzzles published by Nikoli: Sudoku, Slitherlink, Kakuro, Fillomino, Hashiwokakero, Heyawake, Hitori, Light Up, Masyu, Number Link, Nurikabe, Ripple Effect, Shikaku, and Kuromasu.
- Spot the difference
- Tour puzzles like a maze
- Word puzzles, including anagrams, ciphers, crossword puzzles, Hangman (game), and word search puzzles. Tabletop and digital word puzzles include Bananagrams, Boggle, Bonza, Dabble, Letterpress (video game), Perquackey, Puzzlage, Quiddler, Ruzzle, Scrabble, Upwords, WordSpot, and Words with Friends. Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show) is a game show centered on a word puzzle.
- Puzzle video games