Today's PUZZLE CLASSIC OF THE DAY

Letter Enclosed

What starts with ‘e’, ends with ‘e’, and contains only one letter?

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Flamingo: 2 Congruent Parts

Cut this figure into 2 congruent parts (identical in area and shape).

TriCounting: Envelope

How many triangles are in this figure? Select a triangle and click the "Count" button.

TriCounting: Squared 8

How many triangles are in this figure? Select a triangle and click the "Count" button.

Say It - Break It

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

Head, Tail, Body

What has a head and a tail but no body?

Break to Use

What has to be broken before you can use it?

Full of Words

What has words but never speaks?

Piano: 2 Congruent Parts

Cut this figure into 2 congruent parts (identical in area and shape).

TriCounting: Napkin Folds

How many triangles are in this figure? Select a triangle and click the "Count" button.

TriCounting: Twin Mountain

How many triangles are in this figure? Select a triangle and click the "Count" button.

Balloons' Fairness

Ernie and Irene are getting ready for a friendly water balloon fight when Ernie protests "Wait, it's not fair, you have three times as many balloons as I do!" Ernie, being a good sport, gives Irene 10 of his balloons. "It's still not fair" Irene says, "you still have twice as many balloons as I do!" How many balloons each kid had initially?

Candlelight Dinner

A man lights 2 candles for a romantic candlelight dinner with his wife. The candles are of equal length; the thicker one is set to last for 6h, the thin one - for 3h. At the end of the dinner the thick candle is twice as long as the thin one. How long did the dinner last?

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- The oldest known puzzle is the "Stomachion," dating back to Archimedes around 200 BC;

- The Rubik's Cube, invented in 1974, has over 43 quintillion possible configurations;

- Sudoku, though associated with Japan, was actually invented by an American architect in 1979;

- Crossword puzzles first appeared in the New York World newspaper in 1913;

- The famous "Tower of Hanoi" puzzle was invented by French mathematician Édouard Lucas in 1883;

- Jigsaw puzzles were originally created as educational tools to teach geography to children;

- Logic puzzles have been used in psychological testing and entrance exams for decades due to their effectiveness in measuring reasoning ability.