Twelve brainteasers to flex your mind muscles

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If you're looking for a quick challenge to give your brain a workout, you're in the right place.

These BBC Bitesize brainteasers are perfect for adults and kids alike, helping you to improve your problem-solving skills as well as having a bit of fun.

You might also see them referred to as psychometric tests, often by employers who use these types of puzzles as part of their recruitment process. They're looking to see if you can think creatively and how you fare at finding solutions. Practice makes perfect, so why not give one a go now?

Can you solve these puzzles? Spot patterns and crack codes to test your skills!

It may help to have a pencil and paper to jot down your thoughts as you work through the puzzles.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you find the missing number?

See if you can spot the pattern and figure out which number is missing from this wheel.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you find the missing number?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you solve the final sum?

Use the already completed sums to figure out the missing shape in this brainteaser.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you solve the final sum?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you fill in the staircase?

Challenge yourself and see if you can figure out the missing number in this staircase.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you fill in the staircase?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you work out which airport gate is free?

Put your logistical skills to the test with this tricky brainteaser, in which you need to make sense of an airport departure board.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you work out which airport gate is free?

Brainteaser of the week: Which is the right password?

Put your deductive skills to the test and see if you can work out which passwords meet the requirements.

Brainteaser of the week: Which is the right password?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you balance the scales?

Use your maths and logic skills to figure out which set of scales is perfectly balanced.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you balance the scales?

Brainteaser of the week: What's the right number of eggs?

See if you can figure out the sequence and work out how many eggs there will be on Saturday.

Brainteaser of the week: What's the right number of eggs?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you figure out the truth?

Test your ability to find the truth by matching the school subject to the person.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you figure out the truth?

Brainteaser of the week: What's the value of the diamond?

Give your brain a workout by seeing if you can figure out the value of the red diamond card.

Brainteaser of the week: What's the value of the diamond?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you fill in the grid?

Prove your logic skills by seeing if you can work out which number is needed to complete the grid.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you fill in the grid?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you crack the code to open the door?

Test your code-breaking skills and find the perfect combination to open the door.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you crack the code to open the door?

Brainteaser of the week: Can you draw the right conclusion?

Discover if you can come to the right conclusion with this puzzling word brainteaser.

Brainteaser of the week: Can you draw the right conclusion?

More quizzes and challenges

Want more? These maths, geography and history challenges will keep you busy!

Maths challenge: Can you handle these big numbers?

Have some fun thinking about huge numbers with this quiz, in which the questions get a little bit harder as you go along.

Maths challenge: Can you handle these big numbers?

Quiz: Can you guess the country from its neighbours?

Take this BBC Bitesize quiz and discover how much you really know about the world map and the location of eight different countries.

Quiz: Can you guess the country from its neighbours?

The Seven Wonders of the World quiz

From the ancient to the modern, how much do you know about these famous landmarks?

The Seven Wonders of the World quiz