W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...

Boxed copies of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games only include the Switch 1 versions, as fans dismiss them as ‘totally worthless’. Fans already suspected certain Nintendo Switch games would see ...

It seems like another winner (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images) GameCentral has played all of this year’s biggest games for Nintendo Switch 2 and they make the console seem like very good ...

If you're a fan of these quirky puzzles, we’ve got a fresh one that has recently caught the attention of the internet. A new maths brain teaser shared on X has puzzled users.(X/@brainyquiz ...

The bottom-left number in Mr Burgin's puzzle is 20 instead of 2. In 2015, people in Singapore were similarly unable to solve a math question nicknamed "Cheryl's birthday." The question was first ...

Now, researchers are proposing an enhanced metric, which combines the two using basic math: Divide your average daily resting heart rate by your daily average number of steps. The resulting ratio ...

In honor of April Fools’ Day, I offer the puzzling case of the Lesser Fool. In a fictional town, there lived an odd wanderer. People would present him with two amounts of money or goods and ask ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the ...

A math puzzle is a type of brain teaser that tests the reader's critical thinking and problem-solving skills by challenging them to solve a problem. These challenges have the potential to boost ...

A simple math ... 2=7). 512=58 (First digit is 5, second digit is 5+1+2=8). So for 612, the answer would indeed be 69. The 6 serves as the first digit. The sum 6+1+2=9 becomes the second. This ...

A carpenter, working with a buzz saw, wishes to cut a wooden cube, three inches on a side, into 27 one-inch cubes. This can be easily done by making six cuts through the cube, keeping the pieces ...