If the cards shown here are rearranged to form four new poker hands of five cards each, what is the lowest possible winning ...

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You and I go out to eat at a conveyer-belt sushi restaurant. It serves four types of sushi: ahi roll, Boston roll, caterpillar roll and dragon roll. We each have access to our own conveyer belt that ...

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 ...

You have an IQ above 140 if you can solve this math puzzle. Test your problem-solving skills and intelligence with this IQ ...

Ever wanted to tear your hair out and question everything you've ever learned about math? Well, thanks to the website Brain Dare, you can. The company recently posted a math puzzle to its Facebook ...

The solution to this month’s puzzle examines the use of abstract probabilities as an antidote to real-world ignorance. Read Later The second Insights puzzle, “The Slippery Eel of Probability,” was ...