This project
was established to conduct puzzle contests within Puzzles.COM.
Two dozens of Mini-Contests have been already released, so now all
Mini-Contests that were or currently are held on Puzzles.COM are
gathered in this section.
If several silhouettes are superimposed in a pile in some certain way a
silhouette of a rabbit can appear. Moreover two different rabbit's
silhouettes can be obtained. Can you find them both?
Do you think it is hard enough to assemble 14 different pieces into a
regular 8x8 checkerboard? Isn't there any connection between the name and
the puzzle itself?
A sequel to
The "Twenty-Six" Puzzle. Numbers 1 through 12 and the magic
sum of 26 remain, but the seven areas have changed. Will it be harder than
the prequel?
A train engine that was pulling over a
hundred cars loaded with freight came to a stop at a junction. The engine
detached and a new train engine backed up and coupled onto the long line
of freight cars...
It's known there is one heavier ball in each of the three pairs. Now the object is using a balance scale in just two weighings to determine the light and the heavy balls in each pair...
You start with four Orange marbles on the left, four Blue ones on the right, and one empty hole in the middle. Your goal is to move the Blue marbles to the left and the Orange - to the right, observing some rules...
I need help solving this puzzle----
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you
remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine
letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what
are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
Hopefully you will be able to figure this out THANKS!!
~ Kristi ~
We have a brainteaser that we have
spent many hours on and cannot solve. Arrange the numbers 1, 1, 2, 2, 3,
3,....., 15, 15, 16, 16 in such a way that there is one number between the
ones and two numbers between the twos and three numbers etc... and so on
up to sixteen numbers between the sixteens.
Thanks,
Mitchell W.
Grade 4
This puzzle I found in an magazine
here in Brazil (where I live). I know how to solve it and i THINK you
don't know it yet. So i'm challenging you or the visitors of your site to
solve it.
Thiago A. S.
