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Josh Kidd — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:30:18 +0000

DailyTech – Brain Age: Not as Good for Your Brain as Claimed

It should surprise no one that Nintendo is exaggerating in their claims about Brain Age.

tags: brain-age, games, puzzles
iPhone App Solves Rubik’s Cube in 20 Moves or Better | Epicenter from Wired.com

Can’t solve the cube? Have your iPhone solve it for you.

tags: rubiks-cube, puzzles, iphone
Amusing Math Puzzles

A new blog dedicated to puzzles.

tags: puzzles, math

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Figure Ground

Josh Kidd — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:07:04 +0000

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.

Puzzlinks Roundup (weekly)

Josh Kidd — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:30:32 +0000

A day in the life of a MIT Mystery Hunter – Features

A news article about participation in the MIT Mystery Hunt.

tags: mit, mystery-hunt, puzzles
Galactrix

This is a flash demo of the upcoming Puzzle Quest: Galactrix game.

tags: galactrix, flash, game
The Big Totem Pole Puzzle: Four Squares | Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers

An interesting math puzzle that requires you to find the volume of a collection of blocks.

tags: puzzles, math, smartkit

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Puzzlinks Roundup (weekly)

Josh Kidd — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:30:31 +0000

Amazon.com: Homage To A Pied Puzzler: Ed Pegg Jr., Alan H. Schoen, Tom Rodgers: Books

A new book about Martin Gardner.

tags: puzzles, book, gardner
Auditorium – Index

Aditorium is a puzzle game in which you use tools to redirect the flow of light to hit specific targets. It’s probably not unlike puzzle games that you’ve played before, but it’s got a unique interface.

tags: game, flash, music, puzzles
My Favorite Math Puzzle from the US Puzzle Championship « The Number Warrior

The title of the link says it all. From the blog of Jason Dyer.

tags: puzzles, wpc

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Puzzlinks Roundup (weekly)

Josh Kidd — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:30:23 +0000

Puzzlr – Word Puzzles

A simple word puzzle game. Find the common first two letters for a set of four words. Do this for three sets and form a new word with the resulting six letters. Clicking the question mark for a dictionary definition often makes this puzzle too easy.

tags: puzzles, word
Crossword covers side of building – UPI.com

A giant crossword puzzle on the side of a building in Lvov, Ukraine.

tags: puzzles, crossword, news
NSP Games – Free games for your computer. MatchBlox 2 – Abrams Quest Puzzle Pack 1.

A flash puzzle game that requires you to mave colored blocks around a grid so that they form groups of three or more. This game has a few more tricks than the standard matching game.

tags: flash, puzzles, game
Puzzle :: Firefox Add-ons

This is a firefox add-on that converts any image into a simple jigsaw puzzle.

tags: puzzles, firefox, jigsaw
Push N Snap – flash game @ Gameshot.org – browser based games

A transport puzzle flash game. Similar to Orbox B in some ways.

tags: puzzles, sokoban
4D Sudoku

This is actually a fairly interesting Rubik’s-Cube-like puzzle (and is only really 3D.) Arrange a collection of magnetic blocks such that every face, including the internal faces, shiw the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

tags: sudoku, puzzles, rubiks-cube

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Web Kendoku

Josh Kidd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:25:34 +0000

Anyone who keeps an eye on the comments on this blog has probably found this site already, but I would just like to draw your attention to the Web Kendoku site. It’s a site that lets you play Kenken puzzles on the web. Enjoy!

Treasure Challenge

Josh Kidd — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:15:16 +0000

I got an email a while back about a site called Treasure Challenge that offered cash prizes for solving puzzles. I just tried the puzzle for the first time today. The site requires you to create a user to log in. You are then presented with the treasure challenges for the week. It will either tell you who solved the challenge or when the challenge will be active, or it will let you try the challenge.

First, you are presented with a series of trivia questions that shouldn’t be too difficult for anyone connected to the internet. Some of the questions require you to click on an ad link. The answer to the question takes you to a page that contains the answer. For example, today’s treasure challenge was cleary sponsored by Amazon and all links went to their site. This is, apparently, how the site makes money. After you answer the trivia questions, you are presented with a riddle for which you only get one guess per day.

After this, thinks get a bit murky. I haven’t gone any further, so I can’t say for certain what happens. The rules say something about a FASTCASH round and multiple clues. If you want to find out what that means, I suppose you’ll have to play.

Wordplay Blog

Josh Kidd — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:04:06 +0000

The New York Times has started up a new blog called Wordplay and it is, not surprisingly, a crossword puzzle themed blog. I looked through some of the previous posts and most of them seem to be about the NYT crossword that day, with a few news items about Will Shortz sprinkled in.

Texas Holdem Puzzles on the web

Josh Kidd — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:47 +0000

Back in January, I wrote about an idea for Texas Holdem puzzles. One of the recent coments on that post directed me to a site with puzzles exactly like the ones I described. Check it out.

Puzzles of Leonid Mochalov

Josh Kidd — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:52:36 +0000

I got an email from Leonid Mochalov, a Russian puzzle inventor. He was drawing my attention to his web site which features many original puzzles, some of which are very unique.

The puzzle types on his page include Squarewords, a sudoku like puzzle involving words, and Express-Labyrinth, a maze-like puzzle that requires you to visit every square in a grid. The site also shows us a number of Mochalov’s block puzzles including a “Chess Cube” that you can print out and try to construct for yourself.

The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library

Josh Kidd — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:39:46 +0000

Through mathpuzzle.com, I discovered that the Cambridge Univesity Press is releasing a new series of books called The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library. Over at the Cambridege Press blog, they are giving away some of the books to those who can solve some of Martin Gardner’s famous puzzles.

The URL Riddle

Josh Kidd — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:39:31 +0000

I got an email about a new site called The URL Riddle. It’s one of those sites where each page presents you with a riddle and the answer to the riddle is the next page that you need to go to.

The author is looking for feedback, so post any thoughts on the site here. One thing that I noticed was that on sites like this, players can often feel like they are making no progress. It’s often good to have pages up for answers that players are likely to guess with a short message and maybe another hint. I’ve emailed the author with this suggestion, so maybe we eill see improvements soon.

Smartkit Puzzle Book

Josh Kidd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:19:16 +0000

Smartkit has put together a puzzle book with 79 of the best puzzles from their site. Check it out.

Logic-Puzzles.org

Josh Kidd — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:49:47 +0000

Logic-Puzzles.org is a great new site that is dedicated to logic grid puzzles. These puzzles feature a set of assertions, generally about a group of people and what kind of pets they have, what color hats they wear, etc. The goal is to determine from the limited set of assertions, which pet each person has, etc. There is a grid that accompanies the puzzle that helps you solve it.

Logic-Puzzles.org provides a seemingly unlimited amount of these puzzles and a great interface for playing them. The grid is provided for you and you can fill it out on the site. The site will also keep time, so that you know how long it takes you to solve a puzzle. I would highly recommend checking it out.

Mozaniac Picture Puzzles

Josh Kidd — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:16:19 +0000

I got an email about a new kind of puzzle called Mozaniac. The puzzle involves assembling pieces to create a picture, but it differs from jigsaw puzzles in a couple ways. The pieces interlock in a way such that they overlap each other. In this way, a single set of pieces can be used for four different puzzles when both the front and back of the pieces are used.

There are a number of puzzles for sale on the site. Some of them feature fine art painting, which the creators not are not terribly difficult, and others require you to assemble pictures of numbers which are the more challenging puzzles. What’s missing from this site is a small Mozaniac puzzle that you can print out and try for yourself.