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)