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Please bookmark this page (press CONTROL D on your keyboard). Welcome to the main page of Puzz.com, your source for IQ tests, puzzles, trivia, games & contests for entertainment & education. Below you will find links to all of our games, puzzles, & tests, plus a few other items we feel are likely to interest you. Have fun!
IQ Brain Teasers - Fun brain teaser puzzles that we have run in our free newsletters. Try the problems and submit your answers, then see how you compare with our subscribers. New teasers are added regularly. IQ Testers - Brain teasers that we have run in our free newsletters and have been added to the database of our Random IQ Test. New testers are added regularly. Daily SUDOKU Puzzle - Updated DAILY (Monday-Saturday) with a new puzzle and rotating difficulty rating. Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every box contains the digits 1 through 9. There's no math involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. It's fun, it's challenging, it's addictive! Solving time can take anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes, depending on your skill, experience, and a little luck. So play daily and have fun! Daily Brain Teaser & Puzzle Solution Page - Even more brain teasers that we have run in our free newsletters. New brain teasers are added DAILY (Monday-Saturday). Daily Word Jumble - Since June 1954, fans around the country have turned to their newspaper for their daily Jumble fix. Jumble is the most recognizable scrambled word game to millions of players -- and now it's available online! The concept is simple: unscramble a list of words, and use the circled letters to unscramble the bonus solution. The resulting game play is challenging and addicting. New word jumble puzzles are added DAILY (Monday-Saturday). Daily Word Search Puzzles - Word search puzzles that we have run in our free newsletters. New word search puzzles are added DAILY (Monday-Saturday). Daily Cryptogram Puzzles - Cryptogram puzzles that we have run in our free newsletters. New cryptograms are added DAILY (Monday-Saturday). Daily Crossword Puzzles - Crosswords that we have run in our free newsletters. New crosswords are added DAILY (Monday-Saturday). MORE Crossword Puzzles - Online interactive crosswords that we have run in our free newsletters. New crosswords are added regularly. Multiple Daily Puzzles - Several puzzles that are updated DAILY (Monday-Saturday). OnlineGamingZone.com - Our site completely dedicated to totally free online games! You'll find memory & IQ test games, puzzle, jigsaw, logic, trivia, arcade and many more games. Be sure to give them a try!
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Random IQ Tester - Gives you 1 random puzzle each time you reload the page. Easy Random IQ Tester - ONLY easy brain teasers. Gives you 1 random puzzle each time you reload the page. Medium Random IQ Tester - ONLY medium brain teasers. Gives you 1 random puzzle each time you reload the page. Hard Random IQ Tester - ONLY hard brain teasers. Gives you 1 random puzzle each time you reload the page. Lloyd King's Lateral Thinking Puzzles - 10 excellent & tough puzzles (some visual & graphical) plus links to brain teaser books by our friend Lloyd King. I provide hints to assist you, should you need them (likely!). Lloyd King's Amazing "Aha!" Puzzles - 10 more great lateral thinking puzzles from our buddy Lloyd King. Hints are provided, along with the answers. Puzz.com's 1,001 Best Puzzles -
Originally designed to be sold as a downloaded eBook, our "best" 1,001 (actually 1,021) brain teasers are now part of our site and are 100% FREE. Give them a try:• Anagrams (55)
• Analogies (152)
• Series Puzzles (35)
• Logic & Lateral Thinking Teasers (62)
• Riddles (147)
• Cryptograms & Cryptoquotes (50)
• Verbal Items (237)
• Trivia Teasers (187)
• Associations Puzzlers (76)
• Math Problems (20)
Puzz.com's Trivia Tidbits - Each time you reload the page a new trivia factoid appears. There are 1258 of these trivia tidbits in our database. Have fun learning!
Trivia Brain Teasers - Fun trivia teaser quizzes that we have run in our free newsletters. Try the quizzes and submit your answers, then see how you compare with our subscribers. Puzz.com's Randomly Generated IQ Test - Enjoy our multiple choice test that gives you 10 new puzzles each time you reload the page! Classic "Chimera" Tests & Puzzles - Some of our oldest and best quizzes and teasers:• Chimera's Conundrums Puzzle IQ Test - A fun puzzle IQ test that has been published in high IQ society newsletters, & appeared in modified form in the August '98 issue of GAMES Magazine.
• Chimera Analogies Test - Test your IQ with this verbal exam, complete with automated scoring
• Difficult Analogies Test - Also with automated scoring, this test is shorter but tougher than the CAT
• Chimera High Ability Riddle Test - Published in several Mensa & other high IQ society newsletters, & previously used as an admissions test for the Collegium High IQ Society. Answers & ranking scale are available online.
• Chimera Oblique Riddle Exam - A shorter, tougher test by comparison to the CHART.
• Enigmatic Puzzle IQ Test - 10 more Chimera-style IQ puzzles.
• Intelligence Test - This 10 puzzle IQ test received a Pick of the Week award from HitBox.com.
• Chimera Test - Some of the most difficult IQ puzzles ever created! The Chimera List lists the names of the individuals who achieved the highest 10 scores on this test. Answers are now available online.
Free Classic IQ Test - The Classic IQ Test is the most thorough and scientifically accurate IQ Test on the Web. Previously offered only to corporations, schools, and certified professionals � it's now available to you. It's free, private and developed by PhDs. The International High IQ Society's 5 Free Online IQ Tests -
Score 126 or higher on any of the tests, and you are eligible to join the Society:• The Ultimate IQ Test
• Verbal IQ Test
• Timed 12 Minute IQ Test (50 questions)
• Culture-Fair IQ Test
• Test For Exceptional Intelligence
Puzzle Contests for Prizes - Archive of hundreds of puzzles that we used as contests for prizes. Cryptoquote Contests for Prizes - Archive of hundreds of cryptoquote puzzles that we ran as prize contests. 10 Jigsaw Puzzles - Our 120 piece online jigsaws are better than doing puzzles at home, and we guarantee no missing pieces: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 Easy 49 piece Jigsaw Puzzles: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 Hard 120 rotating piece Jigsaw Puzzles: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Free Word Finder Tool - A convenient mini-site with tools to help you solve crosswords and other puzzles and games.
Random Mazes - Race against the clock to beat the maze... a different maze each time you play the game!
Random Maze Generator - A new maze every time you reload the page!
1 Minute Logic Puzzle - Consists of a single short logical puzzle. It is seemingly easy to solve, yet about 95% of participants fail to find the correct answer. The remaining 5% can be said to reason according to the rules of logic. The puzzle takes only a minute to complete.
2 to 1 Animal Anagrams - Unscramble the two words and combine them to find the name of a creature. Par is 7 points out of 21 possible, and you're some kind of anagram genius if you can score more than 15 points.
Aardvark Puzzle Squares - Measure your ability to find patterns with these thought provoking puzzlers.
Aardwolf: Master of Puzzles - Ten tough puzzles from the Master Puzzler and adventurer Aardwolf!
Abnormal Amalgamated Scrambled Sayings & Movie & Book Titles - 12 difficult teasers that require you to decode various titles.
Aboard Puzz.com: Are You Ready To Test Your Brain Power? - Well, are you?
Adaptive IQ Test - "Cheat-resistant" test developed by members of the Mega Society, which accepts those with IQs at or above the 99.9999th percentile (1 person in a million). The problems and the test are intriguing.
AfreeB.com - A Puzz.com owned site that features free stuff, contests, sweepstakes, games & bargains. Updated often with new freebies... check it out!
AhaPuzzles.com - Web site of lateral thinking author Lloyd King.
AllTheTests.com - Site has links to tons of tests (including a few of ours).
Amgine Lexical Assessment Scale - See how many words you can come up with that meet the criteria specified. Comes with an approximated IQ ranking scale.
Ancient Cryptography Group - Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe wrote cryptograms, 1 of which was solved for the first time in the year 2000, more than 150 years after he wrote it? Many other codes and ciphers remain unsolved after decades and even centuries. Have you ever considered working with others on solving such things? Solve a puzzle by Puzz.com, and you can join this 100% free online puzzle club!
Anomalous & Amazing Apt Adages - Fun & sometimes silly puzzles that will make you think!
Apt Adages, Maxims & Sayings Puzzles - The sequel to AAAA. More silliness & strangeness to entertain your brain!
AssociateSales.com - Have a web site? Get paid by Puzz.com for linking to games, IQ tests, free offers & more.
Associate This! - A fun little word association quiz that will test both your knowledge and lateral thinking.
Association Puzzles - 20 difficult but fun word association puzzles.
Association Puzzles II - Yes, these things are fun! 20 difficult but fun word association puzzles.
Astronomy & Mythology Trivia Quiz - A matching quiz that allows you to test your knowledge of the planets, Greek gods, & their Greek & Latin names.
Best Quote of the Day - A different famous quotation appears on this page each day!
Bluffing Word Game - This simple word game is suitable for 2 or more players ages 10 & above.
Brainteasers and Mindbenders - Puzzle Book reviewed by Puzz.com.
(Mensan) Carl Masthay's Kaskaskia Illinois-to-French Dictionary - Click the link to learn more.
Carolina Intelligence Test - Cool puzzles involving numbers, words, letters, logic, and lateral thinking.
Castles Besieged - A Simple Game of Medieval Battle. A 2 player game using 2 dice & a standard deck of cards.
Challenging IQ Quiz - 12 fun puzzles to tease & exercise your brain!
Chimera Puzzlers - Even more puzzles to perplex & entertain you.
Chimera Returns - More tough puzzles styled after Chimera's Conundrums.
Chimera's Lair - A simple, but challenging & entertaining word game written & designed by Yours Truly. Suitable for solo & multi-player games.
Chimera's Puzzles - Several more tough puzzles with a puzzler ranking scale.
Chimera Test of Mental Maturity - Test your IQ with this fun little quiz.
Chivalrous Attrition - A strategic game using some of the rules of chess. A portion of the rules (reworded by the Editor), along with commentary, appeared in Variant Chess, the Journal of the British Chess Variants Society.
Classic & Logic Puzzles - 10 high quality classic puzzles involving logic & other skills.
Classic & Logic Puzzles II - More puzzle fun for exercising your brain!
Contextual Anagrams - Determine which 2 anagrams are being used in each of these 20 sentences by using context clues.
Contextual Anagrams Plus One - 20 more sentences with 2 anagrams apiece, but one of the words in each sentence contains an extra letter.
Conventional Wisdom IQ Test - Test your knowledge of various sayings and phrases!
Cryptograms - Many of these fun & sometimes humorous cryptograms were made from famous sayings.
Cryptograms of Bart Simpson's Blackboard Writings - Have you ever noticed that Bart writes a different bizarre thing on the blackboard each time they show him writing on it? Several of Bart's writings have been converted into cryptograms for you to decode.
Cryptographer - Review & download link for a free shareware program that allows you to solve our cryptograms & cryptoquotes without using paper or pen/pencil.
Cryptographs - Cryptograms with a Portrait - A puzzle with a picture, changed every weekday.
Cryptoquips & Cryptograms - More deciphering fun. See if you rank as a Cryptoquipographer!
Cryptoquotes - Cryptograms of Sayings by Famous People.
Cube Games - Four 3 dimensional games to challenge your friends to. Illustrated by Darryl Miyaguchi.
Culture Fair Memory Test - A 5 minute timed test to measure how strong your short term memory is.
Dial-A-Grams - Cryptograms that use a number code based on the familiar telephone dial.
Einstein I.Q. Test - I.Q. test contains several mathematical & spatial puzzles.
Enigmus Analogies Test - A 25 minute IQ test.
The Enigmus Associations Experiment - Even more association fun!
The Enigmus Riddle Exam - Try to solve 30 educational and enjoyable riddles. Gives an estimated "IQ" score.
FreeDungeons.com - A Puzz.com owned site that is currently under construction.
GAMES Magazine - To find books by the Editors of GAMES Magazine, click here.
Ghotiwhaid Frenzy - Did you know that the word "fish" can be spelled "ghoti?" See how, then try to solve similar teasers!
Goth: A Horror Trivia Board Game - Reviewed by Puzz.com. A review with links for purchase of a fun horror-related trivia game.
Grave Robbers from Outer Space: A Sci-Fi/Horror B-Movie Card Game - Reviewed by Puzz.com. It's a great game that makes a wonderful gift for anyone with a sense of humor!
High Ceiling Verbal IQ Test - A quick verbal test that is to an extent a spoof of some actual tests.
Kim's Riddles - Be sure to give this Canadian author's brain teasers a try - they're fun, and some of them are pretty tough!
Lateral Thinking & Logic Puzzles - How strong are your lateral thinking skills? Are you illogical, or as logical as a vulcan?
Lateral Thinking IQ Test - 10 puzzles that will determine your lateral thinking IQ!
Lateral Thinking Puzzlers - 30 short brain teasers that are similar in style to some puzzles you may already be familiar with. Example: 26 L in the A. Answer: 26 letters in the alphabet.
Letter Removal Puzzlers - Test your knowledge of words and trivia.
Letter Removal Puzzles - Solve these fun puzzles to find the hidden words.
Logical & Mathematical IQ Quiz - Test your brain power with these difficult but fun & educational puzzles.
The Mammoth Book of Astounding Puzzles - Reviewed by Puzz.com. Contains an interesting culture-fair IQ test.
Mind Numbing Puzzles - These puzzles aren't as tough as the name implies, but they'll definitely give your brain a workout!
MindTrap and MindTrap II: Games that will challenge the way you think! - a review with links for purchase of 2 brainy board games.
Motivational Quotes of the Day - 4 different famous motivational quotations appear on this page each day!
Motivational Thought for the Day - A different motivational thought appears on this page 6 days of the week (Monday-Saturday).
Movie Trivia - Try to match the actors & actresses to the roles they played in various movies.
Movie Trivia II - A quick true/false quiz that covers several different movies.
Myths, Legends & UFOs - A short, automated quiz.
Name Those Initials! - See how well you can do on the NTI quiz!
Number Series Puzzles - 14 fun (but tough!) numeric brain teasers.
Odd Man Out - A quick test on which you try to determine which word, symbol or number does not belong in each of the 20 mind bending puzzles presented.
Off With Their Heads! - No, these puzzles do not have anything to do with the Queen of Hearts or Alice in Wonderland! But you will find 40 fairly tough word puzzles to decapitate.
Online Calculator - A totally free online calculator. No download required.
Oracle Exam - An automated & timed test that gives you an estimated IQ score.
Penultimate I.Q. Challenge - A fairly tough 10 puzzle I.Q. test.
Perfectly Perplexing Punzzles From Puzz.com - Example: sprained ankle + "you're ugly!" is what well known saying?
Perfectly Perplexing Punzzles From Puzz.com Part II - More word play silliness!
A Potpourri of Puzzlers - A quiz featuring a variety of word and trivia puzzles.
Puzz.com's Hidden Puzzle Contest Archive - See the puzzles and winners in our ongoing series of puzzle contests for prizes that lasted for more than 2 years - 30 contests in all.
Puzz.com's Puzzle Contests Newsletter - No longer running, but click here to see the archive for this zine, which existed briefly as a replacement for the Hidden Puzzle Contest.
Puzz.com's Puzzles, Games & Contests Newsletter - Defunct, but click here to see an archive of the contests that were run in the newsletter from 11/99 - 8/01.
Puzzle Antics - 10 fun logical, spatial, mathematical, & word based puzzles for you to test your brain on.
Quotes of the Day - 4 different famous quotations appear on this page each day!
Random Inspirational Quotes - A different inspirational & motivational quotation appears each time you reload this page.
Random Interesting Facts - A different interesting fact appears each time you reload the page.
The Raven Quiz - Test your brain power against these 15 riddles.
Real or Hoax? - Try this quick 10 question true/false quiz to see if you can distinguish real stories and events from false ones. I got a paltry 6/10 correct... try to beat my score!
Riddles & Jokes - Over 1,000 riddles & over 3,000 clean jokes!
RiddleNut Random Riddles - A different riddle appears each time you reload the page.
Riddles Personified - These fun riddles conceal the names of famous people. See how many you can solve!
SAT Question of the Day - Review of a 100% free service that gives you a new multiple choice SAT question each day of the year. Excellent practice for the SAT and other tests, or if you just want to stay mentally sharp.
Science Fiction Trivia - A trivia quiz that covers books, tv shows & movies both old & recent.
Series Puzzlers - Be warned that some of these puzzles are a bit devious!
Side Puzzles - 14 word puzzles that (oddly enough!) involve the word side.
Synonymous Synonym Puzzles - 20 very difficult puzzles that require you to match words from lists that are similar in meaning. Some very obscure words are in these lists!
TerryStickels.com - Official web site of Famous Mensan Terry Stickels, who has TWO syndicated puzzle columns, and publishes calendars and books of brain teasers and puzzles.
The Test You Really Should Try - Contains some tough puzzles, and provides an IQ chart for you to see how well you have done after you�re finished.
Test Your I.Q. - 14 brain teasers ranging from low to high in level of difficulty that you are to complete in one untimed session.
Test Your Verbal I.Q. - A tough 10 minute quiz.
Test Your Word Power! - Test your skill with words with this fun multiple choice quiz!
Test Your Word Power, Test Your Knowledge! - Exercise your mind on this verbal & knowledge quiz.
Tortuous Titles - Try to figure out what movie, tv, book, & music titles are being spoofed with these 20 puzzles.
Trivia Brain Teasers I - A quick, entertaining quiz to see how much you know!
Trivia Brain Teasers II - The saga continues!
Trivia & Cryptoquotes Archive - We used these trivial tidbits & cryptoquotes in our daily e-Zine from 1/03 to 10/03, at which time the e-Zine began running daily cryptoquote contests.
Trivia Library - A large number of trivia articles on a wide variety of subjects including quizzes on movies, history, and things like that. These articles were licensed from a popular series of now out of print trivia books.
Trivial Trivia - A short quiz covering a fairly wide array of subjects.
Trivia Puzzles - A tough trivia quiz that will get your "little gray cells" working!
The Ultimate Clever Puzzle Book - Reviewed by Puzz.com.
Uncommonly Difficult IQ Tests - This site archives information about a large number of high IQ societies, and IQ tests. The site contains an enourmous amount of information, and its webmaster, Darryl Miyaguchi, has done an excellent job of it. Puzz.com does not endorse the tests or societies on this site as being "legitimate." Having said that, the site is extremely interesting, if you are into this sort of thing.
Vocabulary Quiz - A 20 question fun quiz that follows in the tradition of the word game Balderdash�.
Vocabulary Test - 20 flawed word definitions. Try to figure out what the words are!
What Happened Today in History? - 10 important events that happened this day in history. Updated daily, and a new list of events is generated each time you reload/refresh the page.
Word Play IQ Test - 20 puzzles that play on the titles of movies. Bizarre ranking scale included with answers.