Puzzle and Game Trivia
- Solve the puzzle to your past with our HeritageQuest online database.
- Check out this book and try and solve a Chinese puzzle known as the Tangram.
- Enjoy a fabulous crossword mystery and some crossword puzzles.
- Do you have an antique game? Find out with the P4A Antiques Reference database.
- Monopoly® is licensed in 80 countries and published in 26 different languages. (from Monopoly).
- The Germans like their board games, awarding some the prestigious title of Game of the Year (Spiel des Jahres). Some winners are popular here in the U.S., like Settlers of Caton, which won in 1995. Find more winners.
- The board game Sorry was introduced in 1934. (from BoardGames.lovetoknow.com).
- Backgammon is one of the oldest board games in the world; originally played by Egyptians. Its name has nothing to do with bacon, however. It comes from the words 'back' and the Old English 'gamen', meaning 'game'. (from Ezine@rticles).
- The PlayStation 3 is out now, but Sony introduced the first PlayStation game console in North America on September 9, 1995. Game on!
- Mario, you've come a long way, baby. The Nintendo 64, Nintendo's third home video game console, was released on September 29, 1996 in North America. It was followed with the Game Cube and the Wii. (from Nintendo.com: Company History).
- Yahtzee was invented in 1956 by a Canadian couple aboard their yacht, hence the name Yahtzee. (from Idea Finder).
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Library Online Resources
The puzzles of history, fact and fiction, reveal themselves. Trace the phenomenon of radioactive alpha decay, the links of gene theory, the perplexity of Gravity's Rainbow, and the cleverness of Sherlock Holmes.
Unmask New York Times puzzle editor Margaret Farrar, and probe Scientific American's logic puzzler Martin Gardner's career.
Pursue your passion for puzzles as a career. Archaeologists, cybersleuths, and risk analysts engage in puzzling work. Enter puzzles in the search box to find other extraordinary jobs.
Find the Elsie Puzzle Box, Milton Bradley, Tasha Tudor, and more as you locate values on collectible puzzles and games selling at auction houses in the United States.
From arithmetic puzzles to the periodic puzzle, explore the challenges of science. For activities, experiments, and science news enter puzzles in the search box and select by category.
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 Kids & Teens
Library Materials
Puzzling plots, characters, and stories can be found in this booklist all about puzzles. Or you can find fun things to do with these boredom buster books.
Teens, test your skills with these puzzles of the eye. Check out 101 Amazing Optical Illusions: Fantastic Visual Tricks by Terry Jennings for a fun-filled afternoon.
Library Online Resources
Enjoy your time on the computer with fun puzzles and games on Tumblebooks. Or you can check out our juegos y rompecabezas con Tumblebooks en Español.
The library is not always "serious." We are also about having fun! Check out this Web Arcade, where you will find all kinds of games, quizzes, puzzles, and more from around our website.
Websites
Create your own personalized puzzles! Choose from a variety of fun activities, including word searches, math squares, or cryptograms.
Kids and teens, give your brain a workout with Sudoku games. Have fun using each number one to nine.
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Mobile
Bright Puzzles: Wild Animals Lite
Play with this free jigsaw puzzle application that features many wild animals.
iTunes | Website
Suduko Daily
Enjoy this free puzzle application that has 14 levels of difficulty.
iTunes | Android | Website
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Library Materials
From cards to Sudoku, enjoy a variety of resources on different games. Travel back in time and have some fun with Early American activities and entertainment.
Take the challenge and design your own game. Try these books and learn professional tips and tricks of the gaming industry.
Crossword puzzle dictionaries for puzzle solvers and wordsmiths alike. Encounter the world of words teasing crossword challengers to meet their champion game.
Piece together the clues in these puzzling mysteries and solve the crime.
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Websites
Visit this exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games, and optical illusions.
Match your wits with The Puzzler from Car Talk. Answer this week's Puzzler, review the Puzzler archives, or submit your own stumper and it may be the next Car Talk Puzzler.
The International High IQ Society is a membership site, but offers free IQ tests and challenging puzzles for the general public to test their brain.
Choose between 3 puzzles to assemble a bird, boat, or man! Your problem solving skills will be challenged as you search for the right spot for each unique puzzle.
Puzzles, games, and problem-solving challenges for students and teachers from the Faculty of Mathematics and Education at the University of Cambridge.
Enrich your mind with the Norton Museum of Art Memory Game or try the Slide Puzzle.
Enjoy the sounds of music you know in a whole new way with the creative juxtaposition of great composers with tunes from all times and place in this week's Piano Puzzler. Test your knowledge of notes and sound with this delightful puzzle of music for the brain.
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Social
Listen to National Public Radio's Sunday Puzzle podcast hosted by William Shortz. Solve the puzzles!
Join host Jim Horne for a lively discussion on each day's crossword puzzle of the New York Times.
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