Monthly Archives: February 2009

Puzzlinks Farewell

February 9, 2009
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I’ve been in denial about this for quite some time, hoping that I could put some more time into this blog, imagining the ways that I could make it better.  As of this week, Puzzlinks has been in existence for three years.  It was time to do some evaluation about what the future of the site would hold and I have decided not to continue.  I just can’t put enough time into the blog to make it as good as it should be and there are plenty of other great puzzle blogs out there.  (Passion For Puzzles, SmartKit, The Griddle, and su.doku.es, to name just a few.)  I have no intention of taking down the site, I just won’t be posting to it anymore.

I’ve had a lot of fun running puzzlinks and I think that the last three years have been great ones to run a puzzle blog.  Shortly after I started, there was the Starbucks crossword competition and then the Google Da Vinci Code puzzle competition.  We witnessed the rise and fall of Perplex City and the documentary Wordplay turned cruciverbalists into celebrities.  It’s not easy to turn away from this project, but I know that it’s the right decision for me.

So long, everyone, and thanks for reading.

Puzzlinks Roundup (weekly)

February 8, 2009
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Figure Ground

February 3, 2009
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Figure Ground is a unique new puzzle game from Ian Gilman.  The concept is simple, moved colored blocks around on the right to match an image on the left.  There are a couple catches though.  When blocks of the same color are laid next to each other, they are permanently attached.  Also, moving blocks of one color reveal blocks of a different color beneath.

Rubik’s 360

February 3, 2009
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Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, has developed a new puzzle that is coming soon to a store near you.  The puzzle is called Rubik’s 360.  There aren’t a whole lot of details about the puzzle, but from pictures it appears to be a clear plastic ball with smaller colored balls inside.  The goal is to get each ball into the appropriately colored ring on the surface of the larger ball.