What Is a Visual Puzzle? Kinds, Rules and a Worked Example
A visual puzzle is solved by looking, comparing, folding or turning shapes. Its main kinds, how it differs from other puzzles, and what makes one fair.
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Picture and spatial puzzles
Puzzles you solve by looking, folding and turning.
These puzzles are solved by looking: folding a net into a cube, rolling a die across a grid, fitting shapes into a square or reading a picture closely. Each article uses diagrams and plain steps to show how to see the answer.
Start here: types of spatial puzzles, counting cubes, mental rotation puzzles
Types of Spatial Puzzles: Fold, Turn, Pack, Cut, Tile and Flip
Folding, rotating, packing, cutting, tiling, and mirror and shadow puzzles: the six types of spatial puzzles, with worked examples and riddles to try.
How Many Squares Puzzle: Count Squares, Rectangles and Triangles
Count shapes size by size. A step-by-step method for squares, rectangles and triangles, with quick rules, a worked grid and a practice puzzle.
Cube Counting Puzzles: How to Count Every Cube in a Stack
Count every cube in a stack, hidden ones included. Use a height grid, check by layers and diagonals, then try a worked example and a practice puzzle.
How to Solve Mental Rotation Puzzles: Turned or Mirrored?
Tell a turned shape from a mirror image with one landmark and one side check, read cube nets, then try a worked example and two practice puzzles.
How to Solve Mirror Image Puzzles: Clocks, Letters, Tiles and Light
Undo the flip: read mirrored and water clocks, test letters and words, spot the mirrored tile and trace a light beam, with worked examples and answers.
How to Solve Hidden Picture Puzzles: A Step-by-Step Method
Find every hidden shape, letter and object with one method: one item at a time, an anchor feature and a strip sweep. Worked grid and practice puzzle.
How to Solve Spot the Difference Puzzles: The Grid Method
Scan both pictures cell by cell, sort changes by kind and check your tally. A six-step method, a worked tile puzzle and a practice puzzle with answer.
Rep-Tile Puzzles: How to Cut a Shape Into Copies of Itself
Learn to cut a shape into smaller copies of itself: count cells, fill tight corners first, avoid bad pockets, then try a worked and a practice puzzle.
How to Solve a Polycube Puzzle: Volume, Colour and Layers
Pack cube pieces into a box with four checks: volume, a 3D checkerboard colour count, awkward pieces first and layer by layer, plus a practice puzzle.
How to Solve a Pentomino Puzzle: Area, Corners and Colours
Fill a board with the 12 five-square pieces. Check area and colour, mark tight corners, place awkward pieces first, then try a worked and a practice box.
Tangled Cord Puzzles: How to Remove Every Crossing
Move one dot at a time, count crossings in pairs and fix a triangle first. A worked tangled cord puzzle, a practice puzzle and the networks that never lie flat.
Tangram Puzzle Solutions: A Step-by-Step Method
Place the large triangles first, read the corners and flip the parallelogram. Seven pieces, their size rules and nine verified tangram solutions.
21 Picture Puzzles and Spatial Riddles With Answers
21 original picture and spatial puzzles: fold, roll, trace, count and spot the change. Sorted from easy to hard, with every answer hidden.