TOP 10 Most Famous Puzzles

Since ancient times people try to complicate their lives, by inventing new puzzles for themselves. Welcome to the top 10 most famous puzzles.

1. The Rubik's Cube - The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle. In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, among six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow). For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour.

2. Sudoku - number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. Japanese people are smart, isn’t it?

3. Fifteen puzzle - who did not play fifteen in childhood? The game is very simple – you should place 15 tiles in order (1 to 15) by making sliding moves and using one empty space.


4. Crossword puzzle – his majesty crossword. It’s a word puzzle, nowadays known in different variations. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers.


5. Sokoban – warehouse keeper in translation, is a puzzle, where the player pushes boxes around a maze, viewed from above, and tries to put them in designated locations.Only one box may be pushed at a time, and boxes cannot be pulled.

6. Nonograms – also known as Paint by Numbers or Griddlers. It’s a picture logic puzzle in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture.



7. Maze – Maze solving is the act of finding a route through the maze from the start to finish, technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth.




8. Jigsaw puzzle – is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. Jigsaw puzzles typically come in 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece sizes, however the largest commercial puzzle has 24,000 pieces and spans 428 cm by 157 cm!


9. Tower of Hanoi – Towers of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle. It consists of three rods, and a number of disks of different sizes which can slide onto any rod. The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to another rod, obeying the following rules: Only one disk may be moved at a time; each move consists of taking the upper disk from one of the rods and sliding it onto another rod, on top of the other disks that may already be present on that rod; no disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.

10. Spot the difference – very famous puzzle, where two images are shown, and the player has to find differences between them. Usually, the image on the left side is original, but the image on the right side contains some differences.

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