There are numerous categories of puzzles. The following lists the most common:
- Puzzles derived from board games include chess-type problems (chess and eight queens puzzle)
- Logic puzzles (paint by numbers)
- Mechanical puzzles (Rubik’s Cube)
- Computer puzzle games
- Cube games
- Solitaire-type puzzles
- Brain teasers
- Riddles
- Tiling puzzles (including jigsaw, polysquare, and Tangram puzzles)
- Whodunits
- Word puzzles (anagrams, cracking a code, crossword puzzles, find-the-word puzzles, and verbal arithmetic puzzles)