Thanks to Leigh Anne for sending a link along to the website of the Sudoku 2007 2nd World Sudoku Championship in Prague (Czech Republic).

Here you can find a lot of information about the World Sudoku Championship, but the best thing is that there is a 34 page pdf document [750kb] which you can download for free with a lot of Sudoku variants (Jigsaw Roundoku, Futoshiki, IsoSudoku and much more) and also examples you can expect at a World Sudoku Championship.

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Category: All Puzzles, Jigsaw Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzles

One of the best Sudoku makers is Nikoli as they design the Sudoku’s they publish by hand.

Now there is also an electronic Sudoku Game available with 99 different Sudoku’s. If you want to be the first to own this neat little device you can buy Franklin Electronic Sudoku Game by Nikoli from Amazon.co.uk.

Settings for beginners, intermediate and advanced enthusiasts. Details: operated by two AA batteries, supplied; 14.5 x 9 x 2.5 cm (5 3/4″ x 3 1/2″ x 1″). Happy Puzzling!

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After my previous post ‘Maze in Maize Theme is Space‘ I looked for more mazes.

Via about.com I found two pages with Corn Mazes, one with a list of Corn Mazes in the USA and one listing Corn Mazes in Canada. On both pages you can find per state with Mazes. Another page I found about mazes is called MazePlay but this one is not updated yet for 2007 so you can only find aerial photos [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Maze Puzzles

Also this year for the third time in Whaplode (UK) there is a Maze in Maize and this years theme is Space.

The maze is open from Saturday 21st July 2007 till Sunday 30th September 2007. Open daily 10.00am until 6.00pm (last entry 5.00pm) from Saturday 21st July till Sunday 9th September. After Sunday 9th September they will be open at weekends only until Sunday 30th September.

The field is measured and marked out by hand, this means lots of walking for farmer Lance Whittington (brainchild of maze in maize) up and down the field, counting every row. Once the [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Maze Puzzles

The objective of Cucaracha is to stop the Cucarachas (smiley look-a-likes that doesn’t look very happy) from expanding to both sides of the board.

To remove them from the board you need to create groups of three or more connected Cucaracha’s. Use the special miner and magic Cucaracha wisely because every minute this creatures do a super-attack, that adds 10 extra Cucarachas to the board.

Game play is easy, just use the mouse to aim and fire the Cucaracha creatures. The miner-Cucaracha will remove the whole row, a magic Cucaracha will remove all of [Read More...]

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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...]

Category: All Puzzles, Sudoku Puzzles

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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