Puzzles and Mazes:
David's Puzzle Page
A serious puzzle aficionado post lots of brain benders in categories like logic puzzles, math matrix, crosswords and others. Most are fairly challenging, and your host requests submissions from interested parties.
Fundrum My Conundrum
Divided into difficulty categories of easy, medium and hard, this collection of riddles, puzzles and logic problems is supposed to be for young people, but they are challenging enough for all ages.
Horsefun Horsey Puzzles
If you like horses, this puzzle page is custom-made for you. All the games have an equine theme, from Horse Wordsearch to the Show Jumping Quiz. You'll even find a Match the Horse activity, the Stable Stumper and Missing Horse Words.
Leash Maze
A 14-year-old drew this clever maze in which six dogs have their leashes hopelessly tangled. Print the page to make solving the problem a little easier, and then check your solution online.
Manic Maze!
Tackle this maze when you have plenty of free time, because there's nothing easy about finding your way through this labyrinth. Nice graphics and a sound option add to the adventure.
Maze Maker
Maze makers can use this tool to make their design work a whole lot easier. Choose a shape -- rectangular, Christmas tree, Valentine -- and then select from several customizing options.
Maze, The
The prologue tells the story of how Cinderella was outsmarted by an old witch and a packet of extra light chewing gum. She's now a household slave for the witch, and your quest is to enter a maze and rescue her.
Paradox's Puzzles
Can you turn a triangle into a square, and can you spot all the hidden pictures in Pop's Pizza Puzzle? Both of these brain teasers, along with others -- including the Secret of the Spiral Notebook -- are waiting to test your skill.
Pit of Peril
Maybe this online labyrinth isn't as graphically rich as others you can dawdle over, but this maze has a few tricks inside that make it a little different from similar puzzlers on the Web. Beware of rooms with no exit and one-way doors.
Preponderance of Puzzles, A
Plenty of puzzles from the honors students include a grown-up color by number, a strategy board game called Phalanx, a probability game with dice and loads of word puzzles, including crosswords in bizarre shapes.
Puzzle Game
Play an interactive version of the classic nine-square puzzle. Move eight pieces through a single blank space in a 3-by-3 playing grid to put together the Boston 'niversity coat of arms.
Puzzlemaker
Now you can make your own puzzles with this selection of templates for crosswords, mazes, math squares, cryptograms and word searches. The computer does all the work; you just supply the words and clues or select shapes and sizes.
Quest for the Ruby, The
Shockwave powers this hot desert adventure game in which you must first find a map, and then follow it through a maze to find the hidden ruby. Beware of wrong turns.
Riddle du Jour
Every day, registered users get a new one. Some are hard; some are not so hard. People who respond with the correct answer get their names posted at the site. You too can be one among thousands.
Shocking Worms Puzzle
Designed with little kids in mind, Otto's place touts itself as a safe place to play in cyberspace. Appropriately, the games and puzzles all have a safety theme -- at play, in the house, around the neighborhood and in the car.
Soozie Clue Page, The
Soozie has posted a page of puzzles to tease the brains of young folks, and invites real puzzle whizzes to send their favorites along for the chance to be posted at her page and win a T-shirt. Answer her riddles correctly to be entered in a prize drawing.
Speedbump
Your delivery truck's out of gas, but you have to get that pizza delivered in the next five minutes. Earn success, fame, cash and temporary bragging rights in this obstacle course game that throws anchovies, rusty nails and pesky pooches in your way.
Sphinx, The
Each puzzle at The Sphinx has two characteristics: category (logical, physical, games-related, mathematical and mixed) and level of difficulty (very easy to very hard). Once you've solved them all, submit your favorite puzzle to see if it gets posted.
Squigly's Pencil Puzzles
You'll have to print these pages to solve the puzzles, but choices for different age levels invite kids to find hidden messages and break a secret code, count hidden mice, find the differences between two pictures that look alike and solve a crossword.
Strawberry Macaw's Puzzle Page
Written especially for younger kids, these puzzles challenge children to move a fox, a duck and a sack of corn across a river in order to to try to win a cracker-eating contest and play a puzzling game that involves 23 matches.
Ultimate Puzzle Site, The
The three students responsible for this site guarantee that all their puzzles -- choose from categories such as basic, mathematical, brain teasers and complex problems -- are interesting. They offer a mathematical proof as illustration.
Web Cube
If you've lost your old Rubik's Cube -- or never had one and suffered from the lack -- this Web version offers the chance to solve the puzzle of arranging 27 little cubes so that each side is composed of a single color.