IQ Puzzles

IQ puzzles, brain twisters, or cognitive stimulating puzzles... Call them what you will, but if you want to train your intelligence, you've come to the right place. With these puzzles, you are guaranteed to be tested in your abilities to recognize patterns and decipher systems. Here you will find everything from the classic Rubik's Cube to entirely new challenging puzzles.

But even though they may seem difficult to start with, this type of IQ Puzzles is something you can train yourself to handle. The more you challenge yourself, the harder challenges you can overcome. IQ Puzzles also come in many different difficulty levels, so whether you want to train your own intelligence, or perhaps want to give your child some brain food, there are IQ Puzzles that fit perfectly.

IQ Puzzles take many different forms. The most famous is probably the classic Rubik's Cube, or 'professor cube' as it is also called in Danish. The cube was invented in 1974 by the Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik. The cube's six sides are each divided into 9 colored sections; white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. The cube has an internal rotating mechanism that allows each side of the cube to be rotated individually. Thus, the colored sections are mixed around. The goal is now to use the rotating mechanism to get the colored sections back in place, so each side of the cube has only one color again. Since then, many variants of the Rubik's Cube have emerged, e.g., cubes that have 5 x 5 squares on the surface instead of the classic 3 x 3.

Another type of IQ Puzzle, with a wealth of variants, is where you have to fit a number of pieces into a tray. One of the oldest is Tangram, believed to have originated in the 18th century in China. Here you must fit a number of geometric shapes into a square tray. The task has many different solutions, and you can either try until you succeed, or challenge yourself by deciding on a starting piece that must be placed in a specific position.
Many IQ Puzzles use the same basic idea, but with many different shapes of pieces and sizes. Some flat, others spatial - but all with the same principle that you need to find room for all the pieces in a limited area.