Blog Roundup 2/4/08

Jim Bumgardner reports on his blog, KrazyDad, that the online magazine Mung Being, which regularly publishes his puzzles, has published an interview with him. Jim fields a number of questions about puzzles including what makes a good puzzle, and why it’s hard to make money as a puzzle constructor.
Bozzball’s Puzzling World continues to greatly expand the variety of puzzles available. This week saw slitherlink and battleships added to the bunch along with a series of Lost themed puzzles.
Passion for Puzzles had a link to a java game called Paso Doble. The game requires you to move a puppet around a room to land on an “X.” There are a couple tricks involved. First, the puppet can only take two steps at a time. Second, you may need to walk on the walls or the ceiling to reach the “X.”
Mathpuzzle.com has been updated twice since last week. New links include a catalog of heptomino oddities (a heptomino oddity is a symmetric figure made up of an odd number of identical heptominos.)
Winston Breen’s blog includes an interestig word puzzle called “A bit of this, a bit of that.” It’s very much like a crossword in that you are given clues that can be used to fill in specified empty squares. What’s interesting is that the puzzle is constructed in such a way that many of the squares are a part of three different clues.

Posted by Josh in Website (Tuesday February 5, 2008 at 12:10 am)
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Puzzle fans who have a website or host their own blog might be interested in http://www.blogpuzzles.net, which allows people to integrate a word search creator into their site with one tag. Try it out!

Comment by Philip Paradis — February 8, 2008 @ 12:20 am