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Problems and Puzzles
A collection of websites containing problems and puzzles of varying difficulty. Some are purely mathematical, others are of a recreational nature. Be warned that many of the mathematical problems would be considered "4 Star".
Mathematical
- Nick's Puzzles range over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, and logic. Problems and solutions are presented clearly and provide an excellent challenge.
http://www.qbyte.org/puzzles/ - Professor Alberto L. Delgado of Bradley University has produced a 'Problem of the Week' since 1997, featuring a superb collection of challenging mathematical problems.
http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~delgado/potw/potw.html - Macalester College Problem of the Week, hosted by the Math Forum.
http://mathforum.org/wagon/ - Purdue University Problem of the Week.
http://www.math.purdue.edu/pow/ - Canadian Mathematics Competition.
http://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/contests/contests.html - The International Mathematical Olympiad's official website.
http://imo.math.ca/ - problemcorner.org (formerly the 20,000 Problems Under The Sea problem set), contains a wealth of highly inventive and challenging maths problems taken from contests and journal problem columns from around the world.
http://www.problemcorner.org/
Recreational
- wu :: riddles, created by William Wu, contains a massive collection of riddles and puzzles. Although solutions are not published, there is a forum where problems can be discussed.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml - For the definitive guide to dissection problems I would refer you to Stewart Coffin's amazing, The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections.
http://www.johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorld/ - The rec.puzzles archive is an immense collection of categorised puzzles taken from years of newgroup puzzle discussions.
http://rec-puzzles.org/ - The Grey Labyrinth is a superbly produced and presented website, containing a vast collection of puzzles of a lateral and perplexing nature.
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/ - Although a little ambitious in its name, 'The Ultimate Puzzle Site!' provides a good mixture of challenging problems of varying difficulty.
http://www.dse.nl/puzzle/index_us.html