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This is a list of puzzle topics, by Wikipedia page.

• Acrostic
• Anagram
• Back from the klondike
• Ball-in-a-maze puzzle
• Brain teaser
• Burr puzzle
• Chess problem
• Chess puzzle
• Computer puzzle game
• Cross Sums
• Crossword puzzle
• Cryptic crossword
• Cryptogram
• Daughter in the box
• Disentanglement puzzle
• Edge-matching puzzle
• Egg of Columbus
• Eight queens puzzle
• Einstein's Puzzle
• Eternity puzzle
• Fifteen puzzle
• Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle
• Geomagic square
• Globe puzzle
• Graeco-Latin square
• Gry
• Happy Cube
• Induction puzzles
• Insight
• Jigsaw puzzle
• Kakuro
• KenKen
• Knights and knaves
• Knight's Tour
• Lateral thinking
• Latin square
• Letter bank
• Lock puzzle
• Logic puzzle
• Magic square
• Mahjong solitaire
• Matchstick puzzle
• Mathematical puzzle
• Maze
• Mechanical puzzle
• Merkle's Puzzles
• Minus Cube
• Morpion solitaire
• N-puzzle
• National Puzzlers' League
• Nikoli
• Nine dots puzzle
• Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition
• Nurikabe
• Packing problem
• Paint by numbers
• Peg solitaire
• Pentomino
• Pirate loot problem
• Plate-and-ring puzzle
• Problem solving
• Rattle puzzle
• Rebus
• Riddles
• Rubik's Cube
  • Speedcubing
  • Pocket Cube
• Rubik's Magic
• Rubik's Revenge
• Rush Hour (puzzle)
• Situation puzzle
• Sliding puzzle
• Snake cube
• Sokoban
• Soma cube
• Sphere packing
• Stick puzzle
• Sudoku
• Tangram
• Three-cottage problem
• Three cups problem
• Tiling puzzle
• Tour puzzle
• Tower of Hanoi
• T puzzle
• Tsumego
• Tsumeshogi
• Verbal arithmetic
• Wire puzzle
• Wire-and-string puzzle
• XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle

People

• Araucaria
• David J. Bodycombe
• Emily Cox
• Henry Dudeney
• Tony Fisher
• Martin Gardner
• Scott Kim
• Lloyd King
• Sam Loyd
• Uwe Mèffert
• Larry D. Nichols
• Henry Rathvon
• Tom M. Rodgers
• Ernő Rubik
• Mike Selinker
• Will Shortz
• Jerry Slocum
• Stephen Sondheim
• Jelmer Steenhuis
• Oskar van Deventer
• Nob Yoshigahara
• Kit Williams
• Arthur Wynne