Passion For Puzzles

A nice puzzle called WindMill at Puzzle.com designed by Oskar van Deventer. The objective of WindMill is to scramble the disks and then try to get them sorted again by tilting the windmill left or right. Only downside of this puzzle online is that it takes quite long to scramble. But it is still a nice game, also for children.

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A new flash puzzle at passion for puzzles is called Grid Game and is made by Marc James. The objective of the game is to get a chain reaction of tiles as long as possible. Tiles will start eachother f their lines are connected. Click on a tile to start and keep the tiles moving. You can just play it by clicking tiles or try to find the way the puzzle works and keep the tiles moving to break you high score.

River Crossing made by ThinkFun/Binary Art is one of my favorite puzzles. At Clickmazes you can find different kind of plank puzzles like Route 66 (minimal 66 moves needed to complete), Hex Swamp and much more. Your challenge is to find a route across a crocodile infested swamp using just a handful of rather short and different size of planks. Fortunately the planks are light enough to move around, and the swamp is full of old tree-stumps which will support the planks to form temporary bridges. So by careful planning, and re-use of planks, you might just find a route. Needless to say you can only move planks you can physically reach, so try not to leave any too far behind. Enjoy solving plank puzzles.

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The best flash puzzle game Samorost continuous with Samorost 2. Samorost's pet dog gets abducted by aliens and you need to help Samorost save his dog and your planet from Armageddon. Samorost 2 is also available in a commercial CD-version. The game has brilliant graphics and a very nice plot. The only downside is that it takes Samorost 2 quite long to load.

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In a previous post I already told you about my first experience with Slitherlink. Recently I found a website where you can try to solve Slitherlink online. For the ones who love to try to solve Slitherlink read the explanation about the rules.

The board consists of a number of cells. Each cell is surrounded by four dots. In some of the cells there is a number; this number indicates how many lines you must surround the cell with. You add lines by connecting two adjacent dots at the time (e.g. you can connect the upper left dot with the upper right dot which makes the cell surrounded by one line, etc.) so that in the end all lines form a single loop without any branches or crossings.

The rules summarized:
1. Connect adjacent dots with vertical and/or horizontal lines.
2. One single loop of lines is to be formed, without crossings or branches.
3. A number in a cell indicates how many lines that must surround the cell, while empty cells can be surrounded by any number of lines.

You can also buy slithelink puzzle books online.

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Are you a puzzle designer than you probably already know about the Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition which was established in 2001 to promote and recognize innovative new designs of mechanical puzzles. This year you can join the 6th annual competition with judging and awards at IPP26 in July 2006). The Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition website shows you the full details about the competition.

Jaap Scherphuis has a huge collection of puzzle collection and solution on Jaap's Puzzle Page. For the real Sudoku lovers he wrote an application to generate random Sudoku Puzzles, with all kind of options like difficulty, explanation of the solution, solution Code etc.. For those who want to create their on Sudoku's at any level this is the tool for you.

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This is one of the puzzles I found on the web (I can't recall the website otherwise I would have mentioned it). The objective is to create a 3 by 3 cube with all seven pieces (five of them are exactly the same. Can you find the solution ?

While looking for new puzzle books I found a very interesting puzzle book at Amazon.com.

Just reading the customer reviews made me order this book. Some of the comments:
"No amateur or expert math lover should be without this indispensable volume ..."
"What a great collection of puzzles. Anyone who likes puzzles SHOULD own this."
"...Every puzzle-lover should have it for hours of fun."

Some puzzle books have just a bit extra to enjoy your passion for puzzles. If you are also interested in this puzzle book you can also check Puzzle Master Inc.. If you have this book already and also want others to share your experience with the Colossal book of Short puzzles and Problems just leave a comment. Happy Puzzling!

To complete my puzzle collection online I still had to make a picture of a solved Happy Cube (also known as Snafooz or Wirrel Warrel).

For some extra information to add I found the site Happy Cube with a new collection of Happy Cubes, solution and even software you can download which helps you to solve Happy Cube.

For me a new lovely puzzle experience with an old puzzle. You can buy Happy Cube / Snafooz at PuzzleMaster Inc.. Happy Puzzling!

Conslide puzzles on the web are a redesigned type of sliding block puzzles invented by M. Oskar van Deventer. The objective of the ConSlide puzzle is to move the red block marked with a "1" to the upper left corner by moving the pieces just like regular sliding block puzzles, but some of the pieces are connected by bars of different heights. This means pieces can pass over or under one another as long as the bars and posts do not run into each other. The complete set of rules you can find at the website where you can find a webbased version of ConSlide. This website will give you hours of puzzle pleasure.

In my collection I have a few puzzle books, but most of the time they show the same old puzzles over and over again. Puzzle Classics is different. It shows also the old puzzles but it will surprise you with some brand new original ideas. Let this puzzle book also surprise you and relight your passion and love for puzzles. If you are interested please check amazon.com.

Children are fascinated with puzzles from an early age on. When I was young one of my teachers put a tangram puzzle on the table and all children started to puzzle and tried to create the shapes with the tangram pieces. Barbara White wrote an article about the added educational value for children in all types of jigsaw puzzles.

A few weeks ago I became uncle for the first time in my life and that makes you think about all those kids surfing on the internet searching for puzzles and maybe end up at websites with all kind of puzzles (even for adults). That's not what you want as a parent. The site kids-puzzles.com is a complete safe website for you child(ren) to find all different kind of puzzles they like. From jigsaw, memory puzzles to math puzzles. All children can find a puzzle they like and could challenge them to be more creative or think more structural. Let you child enjoy this lovely website.

Are you brilliant in Math or do you just want to test your math skills or are you just puzzled by any math puzzle? Than you must visit Nick's Mathematical Puzzles website. There are already more than 130 different math puzzles on his website and each week more will follow.

The major website about puzzles Puzzles.com links to a page on passion for puzzles to play online Pannerotto. It's mentioned under "special features", but you can also click on the Online Puzzle item in the menu to visit play online pannerotto.
The objective of pannerotto is easy: Get all the colored squares moved into the boxes of the respective colors. A yellow target is used to move the outer cells around. Keep moving them strategically so that all of the same colored squares and boxes are matched up in the same cells. Enjoy playing Pannerotto online.

People with love and people with passion for puzzles and brain teasers and who love to wrestle with geometry problems can find puzzles at Archimedes' Laboratory. According to Archimedes' Laboratory: "Most researcher says it's good for you; brain games and mental activities keep your brain young and active. The brain comprises only about 2% of the total body weight, it receives 15-20% of the body's blood and oxygen supply".

Are you interested just visit their website. I loved it, how about you?

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