Brain teasers are activities that require critical thinking skills of varying degrees to resolve. These puzzles range in difficulty from very easy to extremely hard to solve. Typically brain teasers designed for children are on the easy side, however there are exceptions. Brain teasers are designed to challenge and stretch children's minds to think outside the box. Riddles, puzzles, logic problems, all require thought processes that are sometimes outside of normal thinking patterns. In today's market it has become increasingly easy to find these types of puzzles, and in fact, very easy to find brain teasers for kids online.

Links to these online brain teasers can be found throughout this page.

Sudoku is a very popular brain game and the difficulty level can be tailored to all skill levels. This game is based on placing the numbers 1-9 into a 9x9 grid. The object is to place the numbers in a way that allows each row, column and 3x3 grid to have the numbers 1-9 contained within them, with no repeats. Easier puzzles have more of the numbers filled in to begin with.

Braingle is an online brain teaser site with over 20,000 different brain stretching puzzles and games. They boast that they are the largest collection on the Internet.http://www.braingle.com/ Their site is divided into sections for easy navigation: Brain Teasers, Trivia, Mentalrobics, Games and Community. The website is searchable and items are rated for difficulty and popularity.