Next to The World’s Longest Sudoku there is also the longest crossword puzzle book.

This puzzle book is 21 feet long, it’s nine squares high, 966 squares long, and with a colossal 2,439 answers to figure out: this is truly a record-breaking, brain-busting crossword puzzle! Crossword mavens can make a choice: they can either start a marathon solving session or come back to it time and time again—doing a little more and stretching out the pleasure.

It starts simply—with easy first solutions. But as you get deeper into the puzzle, the clues get harder. [Read More...]

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Hoshi Saga is a simple looking little flash puzzle game created by Yoshio Ishii.

There are little to no instructions given. The game is to discover a star covered in each of the 36 stages. That’s all you get, as said it look and sound simple but the truth is different. It’s a game of trial and discovery. Your clicks will do something different in each stage. And, yes, there is always a star to be found.

The 36 stages in Hoshi Saga (Japanese for “Search a Star”) are all given a [Read More...]

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Are regular Sudoku’s starting to seem too easy? At more than 21 feet long, and with 8,929 empty squares to fill, this huge Sudoku puzzle adds big excitement to the popular game.

The World’s Longest Sudoku Puzzle is composed of 167 regular-sized (9×9) Sudoku puzzles, linked together at 3×3 corners. Among the noteworthy features here: each individual Sudoku puzzle’s starting numbers are symmetrically placed in the puzzle, and no more than 30 numbers are given. Also, each 9×9 puzzle has a unique solution: no two are alike.

And, finally, the difficulty level increases as you progress from left to right, [Read More...]

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Today I received an email from Jonathan about a new puzzle and new website called Pathem.

This new puzzle is a kind of crossword puzzle. From a description you will have to puzzle to find a phrase. The letters from the phrase you’ll have to fill into a grid in one single continuous path.

There are only enough open grid spaces to write each letter once, so the path will overlap itself as it moves horizontally, vertically and diagonally through the grid, revisiting letter spaces as needed to complete the continuous letter path. One [Read More...]

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Particlasm.com is the originator of the Flash Puzzle Game called Blue which can be found on several websites.

Blue is a logic puzzle game and is very similar to the ‘Light Out‘ games. In Blue you have to use your arrow keys to move the blue ball on the platform and switch out all the light blocks around it. This according to the pattern shown on the left top of the screen.

There are 50 levels to solve before an extra game feature will be unlocked so you can create your on [Read More...]

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OpenPuzzle is a so called web 2.0 website where a jigsaw puzzle is composed of people’s faces.

In actuality, the puzzle is more of a mosaic of portraits which doubles as a social network. There really isn’t any solving necessary. Instead, you sign up, add your pic and profile, and find your friends and acquaintances. The search function lets you scour for old classmates and search for people in your area.

You can save parts of the puzzle using a puzzle mark, essentially a snapshot bookmark to which you can add comments and descriptions. You can [Read More...]

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a lovely metal puzzle available in their online store. The seven stylized metal animals pieces (including an elephant, whale, crocodile, cow, dog, pig, and bird) fit together to build a single square block [2.5"sq] in this clever puzzle. The seven animal puzzle comes in a paperboard gift box and is made in France and will cost you US$ 28.

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