All puzzles
Over 1.6 million challenges across 38 puzzles. Pick their ages, what you’d like them to practise, or levels. Every puzzle is free to try.
Fit every log into the box. Some logs have half-cut ends, and two cut ends can share one spot: one cut on top, one underneath.
Fill the hexagon tray with every wooden piece. Turn the pieces until they all fit.
Slide the tiles into the empty space until every number is in order. Bigger boards at every level, from 3 × 3 to 9 × 9.
Use all seven wooden shapes to fill the picture. Turn them, flip them, and see how they fit together.
Move the whole tower to the last peg, one ring at a time. A bigger ring can never go on a smaller one.
Jump a peg over its neighbour into an empty hole, and the jumped peg comes off. Finish with one peg left.
Fill the wooden rectangle with every piece. Turn them, and at the harder levels flip them, until none is left over.
Fill the wooden square with every piece. Turn them, and at the harder levels flip them, until none is left over.
Fill the wooden triangle with every piece. Turn them, and at the harder levels flip them, until none is left over.
Fill the wooden parallelogram with every piece. Turn them, and at the harder levels flip them, until none is left over.
Fill the wooden diamond with every piece. Turn them, and at the harder levels flip them, until none is left over.
Hakoiri Musume, “the daughter in the box”, is Japan’s classic sliding-block puzzle. Slide the wooden blocks to get the big one out through the gap.
Himitsu-bako are secret boxes from Hakone, Japan, covered in wood mosaic. Each panel only slides when the one before it has moved. Find the order and open the box.
Made famous by Nikoli in Japan. Fill the grid so each row, column and box has every number exactly once. Starts with a small 4 × 4 grid.
Invented in Japan in 1987. The numbers say how many squares in a row or column are filled. Work them out and a picture appears.
Hashiwokakero, “build bridges”, from Japan’s Nikoli. Each island’s number says how many bridges it needs. Bridges run straight, never cross, and must join every island.
Sokoban, “warehouse keeper”, was made in Japan in 1982. Push every wooden crate onto a marked spot. You can only push, never pull, so think before you move.
Only four pieces, but they make a T, an arrow, a boat, a bird and many more. Turn and flip them to fill each shape.
Every number tile and frame piece has to fit in the tray, with the numbers in order. The frame pieces wind around the tiles, so plan where each one goes.
A carved wooden board is almost finished. Fit the loose patterned pieces into the hole. The carving hides where one piece ends and the next begins.
Each wooden tile has shapes sticking out and shapes cut in. Turn and swap the tiles until every shape fits its matching hole.
There is no picture to help. Look at every tab and hole, and find the one place each piece fits.
Slide the wooden road tiles into the empty space until the arrows join up into one road from start to finish.
Fill the house with the coloured blocks. At the harder levels the blocks arrive one at a time, like the NEXT queue in the real toy.
Every bottle must be filled, and all the pieces come from one shared pile. A piece used in one bottle can’t go in another, so plan ahead.
Each coin has bites taken out where another coin overlaps it. Find how they nest together so every coin fits in the round tray.
Every block has black and white patterns on its faces. Turn and arrange them until the tray shows the picture on the card.
Luban locks are China’s classic interlocking wooden puzzles. The pieces hold each other tight; find the one that slides, then the next, until it comes apart.
A wooden box with shaped holes in the lid. Tap a shape, then tap the hole it fits, and in it drops. At the harder levels shapes look alike, so look closely.
Tap a ball, then tap the bowl with the same colour. More colours come in as you go, then shades that are close, and at the top level the size has to match too.
Shinkei-suijaku is Japan’s favourite memory puzzle. Turn over two tiles: a matching pair stays face up, two different tiles turn back. Remember where each picture was.
A happy picture cut into big jigsaw pieces. Tap a piece, then tap where it goes. The easy levels show the picture on the board to help; later only the little card does.
Each peg has a little card showing its stack, bottom to top. Tap a ring, then tap its peg. It only goes on when it’s the next one, so start from the bottom.
A tree, a boat, a star: fill each picture with the classic wooden pattern blocks. Every block already lies the right way round, so just find where it fits.
Beads on a string make a pattern, and the end is missing. Pick the beads that come next. Patterns grow from red-blue to colours and shapes together.
Each row of the pegboard starts with a card: dots at first, then numbers. Put that many pegs in the row. One too many, and it won’t go in!
Look at the tiles and tap the one that doesn’t belong. Sometimes it’s a different picture, sometimes a different kind of thing, a different colour, or facing the other way.
Tap beside the bead to roll it. It rolls along the groove until it reaches a fork, then you choose again. Find the way to the little house.