Passion for Puzzles has a newly posted puzzle that was found on beer coaster in Belgium. The puzzle is a 10X10 grid with filled circles and open circles in various squares. The goal is to fill in more circles so that there are the same amount of filled circles and open circles in each row and column. I’ve only looked at the puzzle briefly, but it’s very interesting. I’m curious to know if it has a single unique solution. Also, if it can be solved purely by logic or requires trial and error.
Flippit is a puzzle game that reminds me a lot of the game Lights Out which I wrote about not long ago. The challenge is similar flip over a collection of tiles so that they are all red side up. The way in which its more interesting than Lights Out is that the tiles are arranged in different shapes and configurations allowing for more variety in the puzzles. So, if you were interested at all in Lights Out, Flippit ought to be even more enjoyable.
I’ve written a couple articles recently about puzzles that must be solved prior to consuming beverages. This is apparently a tradition that goes back at least as far as the middle ages. Puzzle Jugs, which date back to at least 1300AD, are a type of mechanical puzzle. The challenge is to drink the contents of the jug without spilling. Often this challenge is inscribed on the jug in some poetic form. Sounds easy, but the conventional way of drinking from the jug is impossible since the neck has a number of sizable holes in it. If you’re curious about how a puzzle jug works and how one can drink from it, check out this wikipedia article where the picture and most of my information came from.
Bubble Island is a flash game that plays like a mix between Tetris and Puzzle Bobble. The game, which was nominated for an Independant Games Festival award, involves dropping colored bubbles onto an island below. Line up four or more bubbles of the same color and they’re cleared away. There’s an arcade mode for the game, where you play against a computer player until one of your screens fills up. But there’s also a puzzle game that will likely be of more interest. In the puzzle game, the object is simply to clear all of the bubbles on the island with a fixed set of bubble drops. There’s no time limit in the puzzle game, so success in the game is entirely dependant on your own wits. As a puzzle game, it’s more challenging than you would think at first and quite addictive.
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