My son came home from school one day a few months ago asking whether he could play yet another new video game a friend had told him about. This happens a couple of times a month—and often results in ...

Matheminecraft puts players in a classic math puzzle called an Eulerian cycle, which you’ve almost definitely tried before. Can you draw a star without crossing your own line or lifting your pen? This ...

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Are you a fan of escape rooms? You don’t actually need to leave the house since there are plenty of virtual escape rooms on the internet. One such escape room is Trace, from Cool Maths Games, and if ...

In this timelapse video, the same child with ADHD is shown watching a math instructional video and a Star Wars clip. The child displays fidgeting and excessive movement only while watching the math ...

A group of former ZA/UM staff have formed a new studio, Dark Math Games, and are working on a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium. The team of 20 describe themselves as a "breakaway group from the ...

One string in each of the following pairs can be unraveled into a circle—the so-­called unknot. Which one is it? Show puzzle solution The knots at the top left and the bottom right can be unraveled ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A study published last week in the ...

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...