How Smart Are You? That is the title used in Belgium for an advertisement for Nintendo’s DS Big Brain Academy.

It is printed on a postcard with seven pieces you have to be removed from the postcard to form a square. Funny how they use an old fashion way of advertisement for a new technology.

Click on postcard for a full version of the postcard. Text is in Dutch but I think it’s clear what the object is (difficulty: *****).

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Category: All Puzzles

O2 and Puzzler Media, the publishing firm behind around 50 puzzle titles, are to provide downloadable Sudoku, Kakuro and crosswords through the mobile phone giant’s O2 Active portal. Mobile versions of puzzles will be available to download to O2 handsets, with the option of inviting friends to form a mini-puzzle league, enter competitions and win prizes.

Puzzler Media said users would be able to access more than 1,000 puzzles from its archive, with new ones being added daily. The Puzzler Portal, which is available via O2 Active, will offer downloadable puzzles costing 50p a [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzles

During a regular check on the PassionForPuzzles web site I found out that the Puzzle Japan website does not longer exist (broken link).

You are kindly requested to visit the Nikoli website. I think this is strange because last month they gave free access to all their puzzles (like Sudoku, Kakuro and nurikabe) as posted by Puzzlinks and Zotmeister. So it is time to update your bookmarks. Happy Puzzling!

You can also buy other Nikoli Slitherlink puzzle books from [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzles

A few years ago I received an email in which they offered me a puzzle book if placed a link to their website. Well I did and a few weeks later I received a slitherlink puzzle book from Nikoli. And to be honest I really liked their Slitherlink puzzles. A long time they sold their puzzle books also online. The only downside is that you can not pay by credit card (you have to use paypal). While browsing their website I also found out that Nikoli makes well made and hand made Sudoku’s. And as they at Nikoli [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Puzzle Books, Sudoku Puzzles

This is the puzzle alarm clock that is guaranteed to wake you up! Nobody sleeps through this! It wakes you up by firing four puzzle pieces up in the air, and then it is your task to get the pieces and put them back in the alarm clock – it won’t turn off until then.

Sleep well and wake up puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle Alarm Clock | Jigsaw

Category: All Puzzles, Jigsaw Puzzles, Rubik's Cube

Get hooked on Sudoku and keep digital files safe with the new Clip Flash Drive from Imation Corp.

Just in time for back to school, the high capacity Imation Clip Flash Drive lets students carry summer vacation photos and favorite beach tunes – and of course class notes and school projects – between home, school, the library or computer lab.

And whether you’re new to Sudoku or an expert, you can solve puzzles right from your PC using the full version of the gaming software that comes with the drive and includes four difficulty levels – easy, medium, hard and [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzles

Puzzle enthusiast and author Jerry Slocum has donated his immense puzzle collection to IU’s Lilly Library. The collection includes more than 30,000 mechanical puzzles and nearly 4,000 puzzle-related books.

Beginning Wednesday, 400 pieces from the donated puzzle collection, including hands-on examples, will be on display in a newly refurbished area of the Lilly Library that will be named the Jerry Slocum Puzzle Room, said Jillian Hinchliffe, Lilly Library curatorial assistant.

Visitors to the Lilly Library will be able to test their wits by trying to reassemble or disentangle replicas of puzzles that have entertained for centuries, according to a press [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Crossword Puzzles, Rubik's Cube