As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve solving problems by making a ...

The twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that: “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.” These words bring out the crux of the problem ...

The following puzzle devised by Lewis Carroll is a classic one in puzzledom: A bag contains one counter, known to be either white or black. A white counter is put in, the bag shaken, and a counter ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...

The game’s most devoted solvers have unlocked creativity and complexity in the classic logic game. By Elie Levine and Sam Corbin Sudoku is like any other logic puzzle, in that it relies on deductive ...