A Finnish mathematician on Monday claimed he had created the world’s hardest Sudoku puzzle, a brain-teaser that required three months’ work and a billion combinations to produce.

“AI Escargot is the most difficult Sudoku puzzle known so far,” the puzzle’s 37-year-old creator and applied mathematician Arto Inkala said.

“I called the puzzle AI Escargot, because it looks like a snail. Solving it is like an intellectual culinary pleasure. AI are my initials,” Inkala added. According to a rating published on a Sudoku website, AI Escargot claims the top spot for Sudoku’s most baffling puzzles.

Escargot demands those [Read More...]

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In a previous article I already wrote about Maxton’s Metal Puzzles.

Now at eBay you can bid at a Bronze Metal Cube Puzzle Sculpture from Maxton (also known as Mini-Conundrum). The Metal Cube consist of 17 elements composed of Brass, Copper, Magnesium, Bronze and Aluminum; only exterior faces have beveled edges and brushed finish.

The Mini-Conundrum forms a 2″ metal cube weighing approx 2.5 pounds! This is a limited edition; each sculpture is dated and numbered. A certificate of authenticity is included with each sculpture. The sculpture is shipped fully assembled. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Rubik’s Cube | Puzzle

Category: All Puzzles, Rubik's Cube

JUSTIN THYME is one in a googolplex! After all, how many books proclaim that their author is yet to be born … or have a title that reads exactly the same when it’s turned upside-down?

Even the title character is a world away from the clichéd under-dog orphan of standard kid lit; Justin is a self-made billionaire living in a castle overlooking Loch Ness. The day he turns thirteen he sets about converting his vintage motorbike into a time machine, little realising the strange sequence of events this will trigger. (Think “Monarch of [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Puzzle Books

Via Kotuka.com I found the new commercial from PS3. They use an eighties icon (Rubik’s Cube) to promote their latest 21st century PS3.

You can watch the commercial at YouTube. Nice commercial though. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Rubik’s Cube | PS3

Category: All Puzzles, Rubik's Cube

Last week I also received an email from Dirk to inform me about a daily logic puzzle game called Nummix.

Update: No more daily Nummix from gamevertising.com, but you can still read how it works at Puzzelland.com

This logic puzzle game is a digital safe where you have to crack the code. Based on equation you have to try to crack a six digit code. You can ask for hints one by one. Daily there will be a new Nummix puzzle to crack. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle

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Last week I received an e-mail about a Sudoku look-a-like, called Trigon Puzzles.

Trigon is a set of triangular domino’s is put together in various shapes and sizes. There is a number on each side of the triangle and a central number which is the sum of the side numbers. Where two sides meet, the number is the same.

To save writing the number twice a gap is left in the sides. The problem is that you are only presented with the central number and you have to use logic to determine the side numbers. [Read More...]

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Puzzle Land is a remake of the Gameboy game Daedalian opus also known as puzzle road in Japan.

The game play and levels are the same but the graphics, music sounds have changed. It’s a puzzle game with 36 levels, in each level you’ll get a number of blocks and with these blocks you’ll have to try to create a pre-defined shape.

In later levels you’ll have more blocks to your disposal and the difficulty will increase. You can easily spend 30 minutes on one puzzle. You can download Puzzle Land 1.0 at FreshFolder. Happy Puzzling!

Category: All Puzzles