If you are interested behind the story of solving Sudoku puzzles with math then you must read the article “Sudoku Squares and Chromatic Polynomials”, by Agnes M. Herzberg and M. Ram Murty, which appears in the June/July 2007 issue of the Notices of the AMS.

The article [in pdf 224 kb] “Sudoku Squares and Chromatic Polynomials” is also available on the web site of the Notices of the AMS. The authors use tools from the branch of mathematics called graph theory to systematically analyze Sudoku puzzles. They also find that analyzing [Read More...]

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Warbears Puzzle mission is yet another block puzzle with a twist. The Warbears are on their way to the location of Mission 3, but something has diverted their attention.

Object is to get rid of the blocks. Click on a chunk of three or more consecutive blocks of the same color to eliminate them. The more blocks your eliminate at once the more point you will get.

Depending on their color, eliminated blocks will increment an agent action bar at the bottom of the screen. When the action bar is full you will be able to use the agent [Read More...]

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Sudoku, Match Three and Collapsing Blocks (also known as SameGame) are the first three puzzle games to be released for the iPhone from MacMost. The games can be played for free by iPhone users by simply using their iPhone to browse to MacMost.com.

MacMost.com is a Apple enthusiast site with news, tutorials and a weekly video podcast. It is produced by CleverMedia, an Internet content company that has created more than 300 Web-based games since 1995.

Gary Rosenzweig, founder of CleverMedia and executive producer of MacMost, created the games in anticipation of the iPhone launch, without [Read More...]

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At Lego.com you can find a puzzle based driving game for kids. Lego City Game features a city made from Lego.

Object is to drive your emergency car through Lego City and help to solve the problem (robbery, fire etc.). Simple but addictive puzzle games for kids where they have to find the route to the place where the emergency happens.

You can also call Lego City Game a Lego maze build with Lego City.

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Category: All Puzzles, Maze Puzzles

If you liked Online Puzzle Game Bloxorz you will probably also like Cube-It.

Just like Bloxorz, Cube-It (aka Red Square) is a simple but very addictive puzzle game. The aim of Flash Puzzle Game Cube-It is to move the green cube around each level by clicking on any cube next to it.

There are different colors of cubes which do different things. The Red cubes will fall down after you have moved of them. Keep your green cube moving around the level until you have made all red cubes fall down.

Cube-It [Read More...]

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Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles is a lovely collection of puzzles by a bestselling author consists of more than 560 puzzles from around the world and throughout history.

Only a familiarity with elementary algebra and geometry is needed, and complete answers appear at the end.

This lovely puzzle book of 400 pages and 382 illustrations is published by Dover Publications and available from Amazon.

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