Spatial puzzle

Spatial puzzles are puzzles that rely on the solvers' spatial reasoning ability, often playing with 3D visualization or manipulation of 2D spaces (with the rare puzzle dipping into 4D geometry). These types of puzzles are commercially quite common, particularly jigsaw puzzles, which saw a surge in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic beginning in 2020. Even beyond that, traditional jigsaw puzzles are often used as a generic symbol for puzzling, even if they're much less common within puzzlehunts when compared to word puzzles or logic puzzles.

A common gimmick across many spatial puzzles is the addition of extra dimensions, as the most common versions of them tend to be two-dimensional. Expanding into a third dimension or the dreaded fourth dimension is sure to add extra difficulty to a puzzle.


 * Mazes - Getting from Point A to Point B (or to many other points in between) through a series of winding passages.
 * Jigsaw Puzzles - An image, physical object, or other source broken into pieces, meant to be put back together to rediscover what they originally were.
 * Sliding Puzzles - Moving objects (tiles, blocks, etc.) around into a limited amount of available space, usually trying to get them into a particular orientation, or get a designated piece out of an enclosed space.