Pavel's Puzzles

Artisanal befuddlement!

Featured Puzzle

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What is the Name of this Puzzle?

A deck of cards with no name and no instructions! What can it all mean?

All Puzzles

[Photo of The Devil's Half Doven]

The Devil's Half Doven

Tie these pieces into a compact knot, fitting every dovetail tab into a neighbor's matching notch!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Cornered: the Logical Jigsaw

It looks like a jigsaw, but really, this is a mind-bending logic puzzle!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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What is the Name of this Puzzle?

A deck of cards with no name and no instructions! What can it all mean?

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Punana Split

Cleverly mixing wordplay, assembly, and mystery, it's a multi-stage adventure for a team of 4-6 solvers!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Ana-Links, Series A

A new kind of puzzle combining jigsaws and word play: find your way through some awful puns!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Puzzle Jewelry

These eye-catching enigmas are both beautiful jewelry and fully functional puzzles!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Logical Leaps and Landings: an Adalogical Ænigmas Collection

Like Sudoku? Here are 24 new kinds of logic puzzles, sure to challenge you!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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The Maze of Games

Eighteen years in the making, this is the world's first and only interactive puzzle novel!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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The Librarian's Almanaq

Hours of puzzling fun for you and your friends! You're going to need a duck, though.

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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The Conjurer's Almanaq

It's a puzzle escape room in book form! Can you escape from the evil clutches of the Great Qdini? (No duck required.)

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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The “12th Piece” Puzzle

12 blue and 12 white pieces create the iconic emblem of Seattle football fandom!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Eccentric's Dream

This idea came to Pavel in a dream, but it may prove a nightmare for you!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Dancing Shoes

Fit four shoes and a cross into an obstructed tray to solve this award-winning puzzle!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Pair-Shaped

Pavel's unique take on the classic edge-matching puzzle form: a multi-stage solving adventure with a one-word answer!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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X Games

Weaving these 20 strips together is just the beginning of this multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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The Buttonhole Puzzle

This century-old puzzle ties on in just a second, but it's remarkably difficult to remove!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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'T' Party

Four simple pieces form a block letter T in this surprisingly tricky little classic!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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The Four T's Puzzle

Fit four identical T's into each of two trays in this deceptively simple classic!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Marble March

March two groups of marbles past one another in this classic brainteaser!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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The Plumber's Candelabra

From a pipefitter's fever dream, can you remove the rubber O-ring from this candle holder?

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Star-Crossed

Young lovers, cruelly separated: a sad but timeless tale. Can you reunite this couple?

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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The Bickering Couple

Two estranged plumbing parts are no longer on speaking terms: reconcile the couple and get them face-to-face again!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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The Bricklayer's Challenge

No good mason would make a wall where the cracks between bricks line up! Can you do as well?

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Trail and Error

This starts off like a classic jigsaw puzzle, but it's really a multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Easy)
[Photo of Dali Bottles]

Dali Bottles

If you leave bottles in the sun too long, they melt and slump over each other!

Difficulty:  (Easy)
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Edgewise

Watch out! This jigsaw looks simple, but it's really a multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Tromino Trails

Five progressively more difficult path-forming puzzles, each with a unique solution!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Icicle Jam

Brrr! This huge, frigid beauty is both a bracing challenge and a striking addition to any room!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Get a Clue!

Assemble the nine pieces of this magnifying glass in two different ways to reveal its secrets!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Easy Eight / Hard Eight

E-I-G-H-T: those simple letters have never before hidden such a diabolical challenge!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Square Dance

Four pieces to fit into two different trays in this elegant, award-winning design!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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The Calibron 12-Block Puzzle

A super challenge from Thomas Edison's son, this has been unavailable for over half a century!

Difficulty:  (Extreme)
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Anansi's Maze

Anansi the spider god presents a tricky maze with no walls or paths: a multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Crystal Ball

Match the notches on the arms of these twelve stars to create a beautiful result!

Difficulty:  (Extreme)
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Gamesters of Triskelion

Eight pieces and an engraved tablet mysteriously combine in this multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Octamaze

Triangles, tabs, slots, and a whole lotta holes! A multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
[Photo of The Finnish Cross]

The Finnish Cross

Six simple little pieces assemble so elegantly, we made it our company logo!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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Ooo Tray

Each step of this puzzle reveals another challenge: it's Pavel's original multi-stage solving adventure!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Easter Island Dominoes

Commune with Pavel's (entirely fake) Easter Island history lesson to get all twelve pieces into the tray!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
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The “Perkinson Guest Bathroom Tile” Puzzle

Inspired by a lovely Craftsman-style room: there are only two ways to fit in all 12 pieces!

Difficulty:  (Tricky)
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Sleazier

It's just four pieces and a simple tray, but our most popular puzzle is surprisingly difficult!

Difficulty:  (Challenging)
[Photo of The Grand Vizier]

The Grand Vizier

Fit these mind-boggling non-periodic tiles into the turbaned head of the Grand Vizier!

Difficulty:  (Hard)
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Hinomaru: The Japanese Flag Puzzle

Recreate the Japanese flag's elegant symmetry from these 12 two-sided dominos!

Difficulty:  (Hard)

Special Feature

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Adalogical Ænigmas

Every month, Pavel publishes a new paper-and-pencil logic puzzle, crafted by Countess Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, and oft-reputed first computer programmer. The puzzles are all available for free, and you can earn a discount on our physical puzzles simply by solving the current month's ænigma!

Even better, we are now also hosting a contest every month, where a randomly selected solver will receive a free physical puzzle!

 Click here for all of the ænigmas!