Word puzzles, including anagrams, ciphers, crossword puzzles, Hangman (game), and word search puzzles. Also the logic puzzles published by Nikoli: Sudoku, Slitherlink, Kakuro, Fillomino, Hashiwokakero, Heyawake, Hitori, Light Up, Masyu, Number Link, Nurikabe, Ripple Effect, Shikaku, and Kuromasu. Paper-and-pencil puzzles such as Uncle Art's Funland, connect the dots, and nonograms. 
Metapuzzles are puzzles which unite elements of other puzzles.sliding puzzles (also called sliding tile puzzles) such as the 15 Puzzle and Sokoban.A puzzle box can be used to hide something - jewelry, for instance.Puzz 3D is a three-dimensional variant of this type.
construction puzzles such as stick puzzles. Examples are the knight's tour and the eight queens puzzle. A chess problem is a puzzle that uses chess pieces on a chess board. Mechanical puzzles or dexterity puzzles such as the Rubik's Cube and Soma cube can be stimulating toys for children or recreational activities for adults. The etymology of the verb puzzle is described by OED as "unknown" unproven hypotheses regarding its origin include an Old English verb puslian meaning 'pick out', and a derivation of the verb pose. The OED 's earliest clear citation in the sense of 'a toy that tests the player's ingenuity' is from Sir Walter Scott's 1814 novel Waverley, referring to a toy known as a "reel in a bottle". 
The word later came to be used as a noun, first as an abstract noun meaning 'the state or condition of being puzzled', and later developing the meaning of 'a perplexing problem'. Wyatt, by himself, and by Abram Kendall, master (published circa 1595). Its earliest use documented in the OED was in a book titled The Voyage of Robert Dudley.to the West Indies, 1594–95, narrated by Capt. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the word puzzle (as a verb) to the end of the 16th century.
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