🏰 Medieval Brain Teasers

A curated collection of medieval-inspired logic, math, and reasoning puzzles from Henry Ernest Dudeney’s Canterbury Puzzles (1907). Public domain. Classroom-ready.

⚔️ Knights, Nobles & Courtly Life

• Knight
• Noble Demoiselle
• Four Princes
• Squire
• Squire’s Puzzle
• Round Table
• Romeo’s Journey
• Romeo and Juliet
• Wife of Bath

⛪ Clergy, Scholars & Learned Minds

• Canon’s Yeoman
• Clerk
• Doctor of Physic
• Friar’s Puzzle
• Monk’s Puzzle
• Nun
• Parson
• Prioress
• Pardoner
• Sompnour
• Man of Law
• Ovid
• Plato and the Nines

🧺 Trades, Crafts & Medieval Work

• Carpenter’s Puzzle
• Cook’s Puzzle
• Dyer’s Puzzle
• Haberdasher
• Miller
• Merchant
• Ploughman
• Weaver
• Plumber
• Market Woman
• Shipman
• Skipper
• Tapiser

🐄 Farms, Animals & Rural Life

• Farmer’s Oxen
• Hogs
• Porkers
• Bears
• Foxes and Geese
• Geese
• Frogs
• Frogs and Tumblers
• Frog’s Ring
• Snail
• Snail on the Flagstaff
• Spider and Fly

🧮 Numbers, Arithmetic & Mathematical Curiosities

• Magic Square
• Chalked Numbers
• Eleven Pennies
• Coinage
• Number Blocks
• Thirty One
• Wizard’s Arithmetic
• Cubes
• Column

🧩 Spatial, Movement & Logic Puzzles

• Maze
• Lock
• Block
• Chessboard
• Noughts and Crosses
• Game of Kayles
• Ribbon
• Rope
• Teacups
• Tea Tins
• Tiled Hearth

🌿 Land, Gardens & Property

• Gardens
• Orchards
• Fish Pond
• Grangemoor
• Moat
• Cliff Mystery
• Window and the Donjon
• Ravensdene Park

🗺️ Journeys, Transport & Routes

• Tour
• Tilting
• Railway Tube
• Chinese Railways
• Motor Car
• Motor Cars
• Robinson Crusoe
• Ramsgate
• Saint Edmondsbury

🗃️ Objects, Containers & Curios

• Amulet
• Casket
• Sack of Wine
• Buried Treasure
• Photograph
• Postage Stamps
• Primrose
• Mistletoe

🧠 Social Reasoning, Disputes & Judgment

• Dispute
• Dorcas Society
• Errand Boys
• Tramps
• Host
• Franklin
• Reve