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.

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