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So this starts out as a pretty simple question: what's the oldest recorded puzzle?

I'm aware that we could get into "what's the definition of a puzzle" here, and I don't want to get sidetracked by that, so I'm expanding the question a bit to cover:

  • What are some interesting puzzles from ancient civilisations (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Persian, Aztec, Inca, etc)?

  • What are the oldest known puzzles of particular types? (e.g. physical puzzles which survive as artifacts, wordplay, image puzzles)

So this starts out as a pretty simple question: what's the oldest recorded puzzle?

I'm aware that we could get into "what's the definition of a puzzle" here, and I don't want to get sidetracked by that, so I'm expanding the question a bit to cover:

  • What are some interesting puzzles from ancient civilisations (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian, etc)?

  • What are the oldest known puzzles of particular types? (e.g. physical puzzles which survive as artifacts, wordplay, image puzzles)

So this starts out as a pretty simple question: what's the oldest recorded puzzle?

I'm aware that we could get into "what's the definition of a puzzle" here, and I don't want to get sidetracked by that, so I'm expanding the question a bit to cover:

  • What are some interesting puzzles from ancient civilisations (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Persian, Aztec, Inca, etc)?

  • What are the oldest known puzzles of particular types? (e.g. physical puzzles which survive as artifacts, wordplay, image puzzles)

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What's the oldest recorded puzzle?

So this starts out as a pretty simple question: what's the oldest recorded puzzle?

I'm aware that we could get into "what's the definition of a puzzle" here, and I don't want to get sidetracked by that, so I'm expanding the question a bit to cover:

  • What are some interesting puzzles from ancient civilisations (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian, etc)?

  • What are the oldest known puzzles of particular types? (e.g. physical puzzles which survive as artifacts, wordplay, image puzzles)