Emma R. Hasson is Scientific American’s Games ace and a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at the City University of New York ...

A functioning Gizmo would never lie and call a good Gizmo broken, so if one declares the other to be malfunctioning, they can’t both be good. Either one of the two Gizmos is functioning and correctly ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Conversation. Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches ...

Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

OK, you’re pretty good at identifying the person in our weekly mystery photo contest. But how sharp are you at math puzzles? You can find out to the left. We present three puzzles that were provided ...

You’re hosting a wedding at your home next summer, and the happy couple asked you to decorate the four gardens on the grounds ...

Only intelligent minds can solve this math puzzle by finding the missing value in 17 seconds. Are you one of them? Try now!

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning ...