Chemistry Puzzles & Games
Try your hand at some brain-busting puzzles and games that will put your knowledge of chemistry to the test.
- Mahjong Chem
Clear away the tiles while testing your knowledge of polyatomic ions, oxidation numbers, element symbols, and more.
- Periodic Table Battleship
You sank my… elements? Familiarize yourself with the periodic table when you turn it into the game board for this classic game.
- Adventures in Chemistry Games
Join the molecule chase as you navigate the maze to escape Space Station Seven and save the world!
- Balancing Chemical Equations Game
Take the PhET challenge. Can you complete all three levels?
- Element Hangman
Guess the name of the element before your atom man completely decays.
- Chemistry Games
Who wants to be a matter millionaire? Can you reach the top level without using up your hints?
- Periodic Table Bingo
BINGO! BINGO! Sorry, got carried away. You will too, as you learn about elements using this classic game with a periodic table twist.
- Periodic Table Game
It’s a game, but a review at the same time—valence numbers, element symbols, and more.
Can’t find quite the word puzzle you’re looking for? Make your own with this free tool!
- The Strange Case of Avogadro Airlines 602
This flight to “Molelaysia” ended in tragedy. Use percent composition data to find the culprit.
This might be the only time you’ll have fun while you’re in gridlock. Your chemistry knowledge is the key.
- Nobel Chemist Word Search
Uncover a secret message. It starts with finding the names of Nobel Prize chemists.
- Logic Puzzle Collection
It’ll take more than just chemistry know-how to solve this collection of puzzles.
- Ionic Su Doku
Charges, formulas, and Sudoku come together in these three puzzles, from easy to difficult.
- Chemistry Crossword Puzzle
Get a clue! A crossword clue, that is. Stretch your memory for chemistry with this puzzle.
- Chemistry Word Search Puzzles
Take your pick from this list of word searches: element names, chemical reactions, ideal gases, and more.
- Baccalaureate to the Future
Solve this crossword puzzle that was specially designed as an end-of-year gift for International Baccalaureate students.
- The Puzzle Corner
Jump down the list at this link to the chemistry category to find metric and element challenges, plus periodic table puns to solve.
- Martian Periodic Table
These fictitious elements need to go into their proper places. Can you help using the clues provided?
- An Elemental Tale
“The Gold Dust Kid” is in his element as he races off to rob the stagecoach. Fill in the blanks to tell the rest of the story.
- Element Riddles
Caution! Element pun overload. (But, come on, you know you want to click anyway.)
- Chemistry by the Numbers
298 = S.S.T., in K. Can you decipher the chemistry code? (Psst: Answers here.)
- Element Anagrams
From puzzle clue to puzzle answer to anagram of one of the elements. Can you solve all twelve?
- Mole Maze
Use your mole calculations to lead you to the end of the maze and that cute chemistry digger.
- Safety Puzzle and First Day Message
Your periodic table will help uncover some of the safety rules you’ll need to follow in the lab.
- Elemental Facts of Santa
Even Santa loves the periodic table. Use it to help tell the story of that jolly red-suited fellow.
- Colour-by-numbers Chemis-tree
Figure out the colors you’ll need to fill in the flasks that decorate this festive tree.
(all sites accessed December 2016)