• The griddle has a new puzzle this week called a “Funky Kakuro.”  It’s a kakuro with a couple extra twists.  All of the squares that will have an even number in them are marked with an “E” and other squares, with circles in them all contain the same number.
• Bozzball’s Puzzling World relaunched this week and a lot of new puzzles of various kinds were added including sipralgalzies, akari, and slants along with the traditional favorites.

My Puzzle Fix is a puzzle blog that offers a daily puzzle for your enjoyment.  Of particular interest on this site are the “Double Meaning” crossword puzzles.  These are crossword puzzles where there are two clues for each word.  Additionally, the clues are grouped by across and down but, otherwise, they are given in completely random order.  So you don’t know, at the start, which clues go with which words.

• Passion for Puzzles has a link to an interesting game called Open Doors.  The game is played in a maze that’s filled with doors that only open in a specific direction when you move through them or move by them.
• Logic puzzler had a type of puzzle on the site called “Architect puzzle.”  This puzzle came from from a site called Wydawnictwo LOGI, that has more architect puzzles available and plenty of other puzzles.

• This may be a little late thematically, but the puzzle is still fun.  Blaine’s Puzzle Blog has a leap day puzzle.
• A while back, I tried to mix puzzles with poker.  I just recently discovered that Puzzle Monster has a casino puzzle section.  Its latest addition is primes.
• Passion for Puzzles posted about a flash game called BrickS.  It’s a little bit of a twist on an ubiquitous puzzle style.  The goal is to match three bricks of any color to collect them.  The difference in this game is that a brick will change color when you click it to the color of an adjacent brick that the arrow inside the brick is pointing to.

• Logic puzzler has a post about a puzzle called Trigon.  Trigon puzzles involve a grid made of triangles, each with a number in the center.  The goal is to fill in a number on each of the edges such that the numbers  in the centers of the triangles are the sums of each triangle’s three edges.
• Passion for Puzzles has a post about a Creative Commons cross platform implementation of Theseus and the Minotaur mazes called Nimuh.  The game is pretty nicely made and it tells the story of an extra terrestrial who visits Spain.

Just a quick roundup this week, with only one blog post.  This post over at the Winston Breen blog struck me because the puzzle concept is exactly the same as the one used by Will Shortz on NPR Sunday Puzzle yesterday.  Of course, it is President’s Day today in the US and the puzzles are themed around US Presidents, so maybe that’s just a coincidence.  The goal is to the name of a US President hidden in the sentences that are given.  As far as I can tell, none of the sentences are the same.  So if you enjoyed it yesterday, enjoy it again today!

• Mathpuzzle.com has an interesting tidbit this week about “circle packing puzzles.”  The idea is to fit a certain number of fixed sized discs into a given space.  There’s a lot of discussion about how to create such a puzzle with a unique solution.
• Passion for Puzzles has a couple of interesting puzzle games posted this week.  The first is the Gaia 3d Jigsaw Puzzle which basically takes the online jigsaw puzzle game to a new level by creating a 3d environment (though as far as I can tell the puzzle is still 2d.)  The other is a game called Just Skidding.  It involves moving a worm to an apple over a series of blocks.  The trick is that if a worm moves off of a block, the block moves in the opposite direction as long as there are no other blocks in its way.
• Puzzle Monster has a new puzzle called weakest link.  You are given a sequence of numbers and asked to find the one that doesn’t fit the sequence.
• Smartkit features a puzzle this week called I/O.  It’s one of those flash puzzles where very little information is given and you have to intuit the object.  It looks a little bit like a computer circuit board.

• 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.

The writer over at the Gridless blog has written me to let me know that a modification of the Kevin Bacon puzzles can be found there also.  On Gridless, they’re called Ouisa’s Ladder.

I read a lot of blogs about puzzles and I’m thinking of making a quick roundup of the blogs a regular feature.  I’ll not be mentioning all of the blogs I read here but if you have a blog that’s not listed here, drop me a line and I’ll add it to the list.

• Bozzball’s Puzzling World has posted a new type of puzzle called a “Kevin Bacon Puzzle.”  It appears to based on the popular Kevin Bacon Game that challenges you to find links between Kevin Bacon and other actors through the films that they’ve starred in together.  In the Kevin Bacon Puzzle, you appear to be given a full chain with only the initials of the actors and movies.  I say appears because I can’t for the life of me get the first link.
• Passion For Puzzles continues to be the blog for flash puzzle games.  Featured this week are Arctic Quest (tangrams meets tetris), bobteds (arrange balls so that they fall on targets), LazerBeamz (a laser deflection game), and TNT Runner (find your way to the next level while avoiding ticking time bombs.)
• Mathpuzzle.com was updated this week to include approximation puzzles, hexacubes, and a new feed to watch from a puzzle site called The Griddle.  The puzzles to check out there are the haunted mirror mazes.

A long time reader has written to tell me about his new blog titled: Bozzball’s Puzzling World.  The intention of the blog is to have a regular daily puzzle of different variety.  Currently, there are quite few sudoku puzzles and a domino puzzle available on the site.  For any who are interested in seeing additional requests, Bozball appears to be taking requests.

I’ve recently come across two blogs that I’d like to mention here.

The first is called logic puzzler and the author posts puzzles of all kinds with the occasional video clip thrown in. There’s a pretty good mix of puzzles available here, most of which come from other sites which also makes it a great place to find new puzzle sites.

The second is called Cassowary Crossing and it’s the blog of Australian writer David Astle, who has also written a book called Cassowary Crossing: A Guide to Offbeat Australia. David Astle is also a major fan of puzzles and blogs often about them. He even has a specific category called birdbrain, where he challenges readers with a word puzzle every week. It’s a great weekly word puzzle that is usually considerably harder than the one posed by Will Shortz on NPR Sunday Puzzle.