Passion For Puzzles

You can not carry your cube with you all time. But when you have your mobile always with you Morrix Cube is the solution for you. At Passion for Puzzles mobile cube page you can download Morrix Cube for your mobile. By experience I know that Morrix Cube does not work on all mobile devices but you can give it a try. The requirements for Morrix Cube are at least:
1. a mobile devices like Mobile Phones and PDA's
2. Java
3. And have a color display size of at least 128 x 128 pixels.

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For all fans of the ABC's LOST TV series there are four LOST jigsaw puzzles available in flash. When you solve the LOST puzzle within ten minutes you can download a LOST wallpaper for free. So if you are a real LOST and puzzle lover solve all four and download the wallpapers.

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All pictures of my puzzle collection can also be viewed via Flickr. Becky created a very nice application to use Flickr photo's for a Sudoku puzzle. For the ones who love to solve a sudoku with pictures of my puzzle collection from Flickr just click here and type at the bottom of the page 'puzzle' as picture tags and 'passionforpuzzles' as username.
Don't forget, all credits are for Becky ;-)

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"It's not usual practice for a High Court judge to issue a ruling in which he has hidden an encrypted message". That's a quote from one of the articles about the ruling concerning the book "The Da Vinci Code". The judges hide a secret message in the ruling (the pdf version can be found here). Judge Peter Smith put a secret message in the ruling of 71 pages by putting some letters in italic. The first letters formed the words "Smithy Code", referring to the title of the book of Dan Brown.

A group of lawyers found a number of random letters which could be transformed into: "Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought". They cracked the code by using the so called "Fibonacci sequence". Judge Peter Smith made it for the puzzlers a bit more difficult by making some typos.

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A new kind of puzzle called hexafex was mentioned at puzzlinks. After a few busy weeks today I found some time to check out hexafex. After solving a few hexafex I can say I like them but not as much as Sudoku. The puzzle area where you are working on is smaller than at sudoku and you just have to count till six ;-)
The objective of Hexafex is to place numbers one to six in 6 triangles around each circle in the hexafex puzzle. I recommend you just visit their website to try one hexafex puzzle. By the way every day the release a new puzzle ... enjoy

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Probably for a lot of readers this is an old puzzle but for the ones how don't know this one yet it wil be 10 levels of puzzle pleasure based upon the Xbox 360. You only have the clues provided with each level to make it to the next level. Just be creative and look wherever you can (page source, URL etc.).

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A lovely flash puzzle for the smart ones. You start with five pieces and you'll have to figure out how to fit them into the square. They may touch each other but any overlap of the pieces is not allowed. Five pieces and one square should be easy but be aware …

Instructions: To rotate, hold SHIFT-key and click your left mouse button

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Esc. is a difficult three-screen point and click puzzle game and is made by the Japanese programmer YCC. This is a game you can solve or not and you will find out very soon. You start in a prison cell and as the name of the game already tells ... you need to escape. Enjoy the puzzle or get frustrated.

What more can you see when you see art, especially when it is inspired by a puzzle. Just watch and enjoy or not.
The title (in Dutch) is "Puzzel vrouw" translated in English "Puzzle Woman" and is created by Karin Arink.

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In a previous post I already mentioned Puzzle Japan where I found my favorite Slither Link Puzzle books. At Puzzle Japan they have much more number puzzles and if may say so the are all Sudoku look-a-likes. One of my favorite puzzle right now is Hitori. The rules are simple:
1. Numbers never appear more than once in each row or column.
2. Painted cells are never adjacent in a row or a column.
3. Empty cells create a single continuous area, undivided by painted cells.
And the best thing is you can also solve Hitori puzzles at the Puzzle Japan website.

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Just for fun and for all Sudoku lovers you can find a video at YouTube.com about Sudoku. If you are still looking how to solve all Sudoku's visit Passion for Puzzles Sudoku's Solution page.

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The answer to the Question "How to solve the world largest puzzle" is given on Jibbl.org. The world's largest Sudoku puzzle was constructed on a hillside near Chipping Sodbury in the UK, very close to the Bath exit of the M4 motorway. The Sudoku is visible to motorists traveling Eastbound towards London. The size of the puzzle measures almost 85 meter square. The solutions to this sudoku and a larger picture of the sudoko can be found at Jibbl.org.

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For people who love jigsaw puzzles and especially handcrafted and customized jigsaw puzzles there is Stave Puzzles. As they say at Stave puzzles: "they love to drive crazy with wooden jigsaw puzzles. Whether you're looking for a puzzle to distract you from life OR if you're looking for the perfect gift for someone who's impossible-to-buy-for, you'll find it at Stave." All their puzzles are crafted by and that shows in the price you will pay for a puzzle. For a handcrafted puzzle of 75 pieces (size 7" x 5.5") you will pay as little as $368 and their price range ends at a bit more than $3100 for a puzzle of 750 pieces (size 21.5" x 17.5").
And as they say this is what you will experience when you will receive your puzzles:
"When you see or touch a Stave puzzle, you'll know why. Each puzzle is meticulously hand-cut, one piece at a time, by a skilled crafter. No computers, no high-tech. One saw, one cutter - that's it. The material: cherry-backed, 5-layered, 1/4" wood polished to a soft gleam. Cut with delicately fine blades, each piece fits snugly with its mate. When you experience the slide, you appreciate the fit."
And I think it will when I touch a Stave puzzle ... I only have to save some money to order one ;-)

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Always wanted to know who was the first world record holder for restoring Rubik's Cube or who is world record holder for solving Rubik's Cube with his feet only? All Rubik's Cube records holders are shown at RecordHolders.org.

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Next to the Rubiks Cube Table there is also Puzzotto. Puzzotto is available at Perpetual kid and can be described as a multi purpose furniture. Put several Puzzotto's together and you have a coffee table. Separate them and you have some additional chairs although from the picture they look not really comfortable. They are only available for US residence only.

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For those who really love rubik's cube and want or need some new furiture in their living room you can find a very nice looking Rubik's cube table at Jellio.com. For $500 they have a unique Rubik's table for you. Their website does not mention any shipping costs outside New York. So if your living outside of NY you probably can add some extra costs for shipping. If you want more information just contact them via e-mail.

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As you probably noticed this website contains Google Ads to cover the costs of hosting this website. Once in a while I check out the ads to see if the ads are still relevant. Today I saw a link to physlink.com and took a look at it. They have an e-store with games & puzzle section. In there I saw a very nice magnetic cube called Q-bism magnetic puzzles. The Q-bism puzzle is a 3-D, magnetic puzzle with 27 cube shaped pieces.
Physlink.com describes this puzzle as "a profoundly puzzling puzzle! This innovative magnetic puzzle is comprised of many three dimensional cubes which join together to form one large cube. The trick to solve the puzzle is to match up the many different cubes colorful patterns with other matching cubes patterns. The forces of magnetism, working with and against you, as well as the colored graphics on each of the six faces of the smaller cubes, serve as a guide to solving a Q-bism puzzle, which can only be solved one way."

Are you also interested? just check Physlink.com's estore

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Fred Vonk from the Netherlands wrote a Java version of Rush Hour with more than 80 levels.

As you already know you have to free the red car from the grid by dragging and dropping the other cars and trucks out of the way. The 80 different games are the same as the original cardset 1 & 2 from rush hour. You can select a card set and a game in the overview at the bottom and start to play. For the real puzzle lovers the minimum number of moves are indicated together with your score. Happy Puzzling!

Update : There are two Rush Hour versions available via Apple's App Store. Rush Hour FREE has 80 challenges to solve, and Rush Hour 99CENT has a pulse-pounding 2,500 challenges, from EASY to EXPERT. Happy Puzzling!

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Next to the regular Sudoku and the Samurai Sudoku, which has 5 Sudoku joined in a quincunx arrangement, there are much more variations of Sudoku available on the web. Although Sudoku's are never boring, sometimes it is nice to solve some variants of Sudoku. The first website I found showing you Sudoku variants is called Age of Puzzles which shows you five variations of Sudoku. Math Games shows you a dozen of Sudoku variations. Just Find the variation you like and start creating the Sudoku Variation puzzles you love most.

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Trying to solve Rubik's Cube is one thing, knowing how it looks like inside is another thing. On YouTube.com you can find a video which shows you a simulation on how Rubik's Cube looks and works inside. A very nice animation revealing the inside of Rubik's Cube.

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For the real puzzle lovers which can spend some serious money there is the website of Maxton Art Gallery. On this site you can buy puzzles which consist of shaped metal puzzle pieces from different kind of metals like brass, copper, aluminum, steel, stainless steel plus and so on. Different shapes are available, from cube, tower to pyramid. This would really looks nice in my collection, but first I have so save some money before I can buy one ;-)

On a Japanese site called Aura Collection I found a puzzle called Plenus 21 and is designed by Peer Clahsen. Although the puzzle is sold out it's looks very nice and interesting. The puzzle is solved when it is subdivided into a number of unequal squares (net), or reversed, when several squares are completely put together as a square. Plenus 21 forms a "perfect" square block. Peer Clahsen discovered the base code of Plenus 21 (linking of a smallest possible square) in 1976. Each different square consisted of 21 squares is put into one square.

The University of Zhejiang designed a Rubik's Cube especially for blind people. There are six different basic materials used for each side a different one. The materials used are metal, wood, textile, rubber, plastic and stone. The different materials give people different senses, which thus enabled the blind people to enjoy solving Rubik's cube.

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Surfing on the internet and looking for puzzles, well just enjoy Rubik's Cube when you are not using your computer. Useless Creations.com offers you a free Rubik's Cube Screensaver. Enjoy Rubik's Cube on your screen. And as Useless Creations.com says ... Guaranteed to make you go "'Gee that's nifty!"

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The European Championship Speedcubing 2006 (official competition WCA)will be held on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of September 2006 in Paris, France. More details will follow end of April 2006 at speedcubing.com. This competition is open to citizens of the European countries and Israel.

If you want to learn speedcubing this puzzle book called Speedsolving the Cube will definitely help you. Happy Puzzling!

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Walkthrough games can be very easy to solve and be fun only once when you solved them. Walkthrough game Orbox B will keep you puzzling for a longer time. Orbox B randomly flips the level on the horizontal and vertical axis. A set of directions can't be easily provided, nor will screenshots be enough on their own. Hopefully you enjoy playing Orbix B as much as I did.

Solutions for Orbox can be found here.

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