Pavel's Puzzles

Artisanal befuddlement!

Multi-Stage Puzzles

Puzzles with multiple stages: solving one stage somehow reveals the next!

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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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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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Trail and Error

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

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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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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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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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)
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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)

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!