Passion For Puzzles

Macgamestore and Sli-Fi Games have partnered to announce the release of Super Tile Sudoku for Mac. Super Tile Sudoku combines fresh, cool graphics and the interactivity of tile games, with over 25,000 brain-busting sudoku puzzles! It’s especially designed for all skill-levels; so whether you’re new to the game – or a total Sudoku junkie. The game features three difficulty levels, varying themes (change on the fly Beach, Pool and Forest themes), a game timer, note options, and a hint feature. Super Tile Sudoku includes a check puzzle feature, the ability to clear the board, a solution option, save/load functionality, original music, and documentation that covers rules as well as strategy. Super Tile Sudoku is priced at $20, and requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

Tags: Sudoku | Mac

While doing some research about the readers of this puzzle blog I found a report from Telephia. They found out that puzzle and strategy games drive one-third of the total mobile games revenues. This alone is not very interesting but as the report continuous they state that Mobile games appeal to women. Sixty-five percent of mobile game revenue is driven by female wireless subscribers and they are the biggest drivers of revenue for the Puzzle Strategy category; comprising 72 percent of the total share revenue, while men made up 28 percent of the revenue. But can we say that women play more puzzles and strategy games than men and do they also like puzzles like puzzles like Rubik's Cube? Maybe it is time to at a poll to this blog to find out if there are more female or male readers.

Press release [pdf version 60 kb]: One-Third of Mobile Game Revenues Driven by Puzzle/Strategy Games, with Tetris, Tetris Deluxe and Bejeweled Leading the Pack

Tags: Puzzle Woman

I thought this blog would survive without any article about the World Cup Soccer 2006. But now only the best teams are left in the World Cup Soccer 2006 I found an article about a jigsaw puzzle related to soccer you can play on your mobile phone. The gameplay is the inverse of Sven's tactical shenanigans – simplicity itself. You just have to find and put together all the pieces of an oddly bear-football-blended Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle released by Handy-Games.

Via Pocketgamer.co.uk

Tags: Mobile Puzzle

Puzzled about floor design? no more! This modular carpet is functional fun for the floor. Each set includes 6 interchangable pieces that you can arrange any way you like. Buy multiple sets and watch your rug grow! One puzzle piece is approximately 40x45 cm [15.7"x17.7"] and available in light grey, charcoal grey and sand. Designed by contrafma and available at Ona.

Tags: Puzzle | Carpet

Being bored by Sudoku Puzzles and you want to make some calculations then now it is time for Kakuro (sometimes also called Kakro).

In a previous post at this blog I already explained how to solve Kakuro puzzles. Next to that I recently added a page at passion for puzzles strategy section where you can read the techniques which you can use to solve Kakuro Puzzles.

All what was missing was a online version of Kakuro, but now at free web arcade dot com you can play an online version of Kakuro. The instructions are in French but as they use numbers for Kakuro this should not be any problem.

You can also find Kakuro Puzzle Books at amazon.com if you want to be able to solve Kakuro Puzzles offline.

Tags: Puzzle | Flash Puzzle

After previous posts like about puzzle related furniture like Puzzotto, Rubik's Puzzle Table and Puzzle Floors we now have the Playtime Puzzle table by Bui & Jorgensen Design. With the colorful puzzle pieces you can create any size of table or bench.I think playtime puzzle table will do fine in hospitals for children and meeting rooms for creative people.

Tags: design furniture

For all environmental friendly puzzle lovers I found Gridlock. This flash puzzle is based upon Rush hour (original from Binary Arts) and has 40 addictive levels and no cars involved. The object is to slide the blue block out the right hand side exit just like rush hour. Gridlock is designed in 2001 by Corwin Derkatch from Crystalnewmedia.com and has a special look which I like very much.

Tags: Gridlock | Flash Puzzle

After the first Sudoku championships were held in Lucca (Italy) last year. The second World Championships in Sudoku (WSC) as an independent event will be held in Prague in April 2007. This was announced June 24 by the organisational committee chairman Vitezslav Koudelka. The World Sudoku Championships in Prague might have not only individuals', but also a teams' competition.

Via Prague Daily Monitor

Tags: sudoku | WSC 2007

Lately I was wondering if there are more possibilities for designing a new Sudoku. At this moment almost every possibility is used in Sudoku design. The size of the Grid, numbers, letter, symbols, colors and so on. While searching the internet I found a very good presentation by Puzzle Master Scott Kim called "The Art of Puzzle Design" about how to invent new puzzles. It is a glimpse behind the scenes into the process of designing a puzzle. Including crossword puzzles, Sudoku and puzzles for the science magazine Discover. If you are interested in puzzle design than this presentation is a must for you.

Tags: Puzzle Design

Click Drag Type Puzzle consist of 10 individual puzzles which you have to solve. No hints or instructions are given. Just look at the puzzles and try to solve them. By the way, hints for puzzle number six are welcome ;-)

Tags: Flash puzzle

3 cup puzzle how something so simple can be so hard. 3 cup looks very simple, so simple that they show you how to solve this puzzle first before you start. Over and over again. Just turn all three cups up by turning two cups at the same time by clicking on them. 3 cup puzzle will drive you crazy ;-)
Tags: Flash Puzzle

Toys For The Brain dot com is a new website where you can rediscover the extraordinary relationship between yourself and your brain. Dedicated at creating a community, gathering all lovers of brain teaser, enigma and riddle, their goal is to have the greatest number of quality puzzles, allowing the biggest fanatics to submit their own creation and challenge the best players.

To be certain to offer net surfers puzzles of the highest quality, users can rate each puzzle for the level of difficulty and for how much fun it was to solve. Multiple category of puzzles can be found on the site; Riddles, Stories, Math, With Picture, With Object, Series, User Submitted. There is also a challenge section containing a series of very difficult questions that require a multiple set of skills from different categories. They promise new puzzles will be added constantly.

At this moment Toys For The Brain has not much puzzles to offer but I think this site has much potential especially because the high level of their possible interaction with their visitors.

Go mad is a addicting flash puzzle game by 2Dplay.com. The object of Crazy Cube is to connect every pair of colored markers on three sides of a cube. On my notebook I had to move the cube around and connect the colored markers by using the touchpad which worked perfectly. I am used to use the touchpad in stead of using a mouse on a notebook. The movement of the cube and drawing the colored lines to connect a pair of colored markers just works intuitively and very smooth. All black cells are blocked. For a better game experience I recommend to read the complete instructions which are available at the start screen. Some puzzlers will find the first puzzles easy but the difficulty of the puzzles will increase after several puzzles solved.

Go mad with Crazy Cube which is easy to play ... and let the Crazy Cube not beat you !!!

Tags: Crazy Cube | Flash Puzzle

If your are looking for a lovely personal gift for a puzzle lover than the Cryptex is something for you. The Cryptex is modeled after a device believed to have been invented by Leonardo da Vinci as an instrument for delivering private messages. A secret code unlocks the cryptex (by aligning the seven rotating tumblers in a sequence matching the code), providing access to a hidden-chamber key in which a gift-treasure is placed.

It is also possible to arrange the characters on the tumblers such that "hidden codes" (words or other character sequences that appear on other tumbler faces when the secret code has been correctly dialed in) or "dummy codes" (words or other character sequences that can be dialed in but that won't unlock the cryptex) exist.

Your (personalised)Cryptex is available at Encrypta Gifts in several versions made of different kinds of wood, additional personalization options and packaging.

You can also try to solve Cryptex online with the help of a riddle or even a serie of e-mail hints.

Tags: Cryptex

Being bored playing Sudoku alone ? Well Marc Belmont created Sudoku Combat [link updated]. This browser-based multiplayer version of the popular Sudoku puzzle offers you a new experience for those that prefer a more competitive challenge. If you just want to practice solving Sudoku's there is also Sudoku Basic (one player version).
Enter a user name, or just play as guest, select a puzzle difficulty (easy, medium, hard or evil) and then choose to play against a friend or a another visitor of the Sudoku Combat website and race to the finish.
At the beginning of a new Sudoku game, your opponent's progress is shown in a grid to the right of your own, which adds a little pressure to the mix. A chat window allows for teasing and taunting or friendly chat during play.
Friendly play: To play against a friend, have one person initiate a game by clicking the "Play against a friend" button. Doing so will display a URL link to copy and send to your friend via email or instant messenger.
Settings: During play you may select to have cells display multiple numbers if you are like me and need to make little notes while you solve a puzzle. You may also turn on/off the use of colored numbers, as well as the display of the timer. An additional feature called "sticky keys" will insert the last number you typed into a cell just by clicking it.
Sudoku Combat works on Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6. It hasn't been tested on other browsers. As long as the browser is "AJAX compatible", it should work.

Good luck with your Sudoku Combat.

via Jay Is Games

Tags: Sudoku Combat | Sudoku Basic

Via ventonline I found a very addictive flash puzzle called Puzzle Bubble which is a classic Arcade Game original by Taito in 1986. One of the great things about the Puzzle Bubble game was all of the different hidden things that were discovered by playing the game. Basically you had to clear each room of all the enemy to let you advance to the next room. You did this by trapping the enemy inside you bubbles and then bursting the bubbles. Along the way you could pick up power ups and extra weapons that were only available for that room. As a rule only one food bonus and one weapon bonus per room.


Tags: Puzzle Bubble | Flash Game

Finally I have added another Rubik's puzzle called Rubik's Sudoku to my puzzle collection. It comes in a nice box (like most puzzles I have from Think fun - formerly known as Binary Arts) with a small drawer where you can store pieces of the Sudoku puzzle and the booklet. In this booklet you can find tips and a explanation how to solve Sudoku's and 100 Sudoku puzzles at different levels.

You can also buy Rubik's Sudoku at amazon.com

Tags: Rubik's Sudoku | Rubik's | Sudoku

In June's 2006 edition of the Scientific American there is an article about "The Science behind Sudoku," written by Jean-Paul Delahaye. In this article he explains the rules of Sudoku, its history and strategies, as well as methods of generating Sudoku puzzles are all in this article. Delahaye also deals with the maximal and minimal number of given starting squares that still guarantee a unique solution: 77 and 17, respectively (the latter has not been proven, but no one has found a Sudoku puzzle with 16 squares filled in that has a unique solution). Variations on the standard 9 x 9 Sudoku puzzle are given at the end of the article.

Tags: Sudoku

Are you ready for an exciting quest of adventure and discovery? Then Atlantic Quest is a PC game for you which will be released in North America summer 2006 by Got Game Entertainment. It is an classic style matching game with a new twist, you must discover pieces of ancient artifacts to help to find your way to your destination. It has a great storyline with a addictive new gameplay, 76 levels, power-up items, and a lot of extra features. "Fans of Bejeweled and its successors know how insanely habit-forming these puzzle games can be," said Got Game President Howard Horowitz.

You can already download a free trail version Atlantic Quest 1.0. Here you can already by online your copy of Altlantic Quest.

For more information, visit Got Game Entertainment.

Tags: Atlantic Quest

The Ikoso Kits Colorcube is a 3D Color Puzzle manufactured very precisely to .001" and the cubes are finished with a high-impact color-injected polystyrene plastic. The object is to put all the 176 pieces together in the right order and construct a matrix of colors. At Color cube they say: "that the matrix of color will dazzle your eyes and spark your imagination. This ain't the typical jigsaw; there's WAY more motor skill, finger dexterity and intellect involved!".

More information can be found at the Colorcube website where you can also download a 3D Colorcube screensaver. Ikoso Kits Colorcube is available via Amazon.com. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Colorcube | 3D Puzzle

Andy Camann solved during a Rubik's Cube Marathon 300 times within 2 hours (that's a 24 seconds average !!!). Andy Camann has vowed to solve Rubik's cubes at the Newton Highlands Village Day event on June 11, 2006 raising money for the Matty Eappen Foundation, whose goal is to educate the public about the dangers of shaking a child. Andy's target was to raise $ 2,500.00. Until now he raised $2,679.00.

Via Speedcubing.com

Tags: Rubik's Cube | Matty Eappen Foundation

Via Mofuya I found a very nice point and click puzzle called Swan'sroom.
Only a mouse is required to play.
Just click objects on the screen to search them, or click orange triangles to change your direction. There may be something important hidden in the place where it seems unreachable, or looks empty. Click 'about item' button, and you can examine the items you've got more closely. You can choose one item from the list to take effect over objects on main screen or other items.
You will not be the first one to play Swan'sRoom, almost 4 million people already played this very nice flash puzzle.

Tags: Swan'sroom | Flash Puzzle

Holiday season is coming up in the next few months and if you, as a Sudoku enthusiast, want to continue solving Sudoku's during your holiday, Travel Sudoku is something for you. This travel version of Sudoku is based on the Moores magnetic Sudoku game, and neatly folds away and closes like a book. It's held closed with a magnetic clasp. Ideal for train or plane travel or just on the beach. It includes 36 new Sudoku Puzzles, full instructions, full set of colored magnetic numbers and dry wipe pen.

Tags: Travel Sudoku | Sudoku | Holiday

GeoPuzzle is a new puzzle, invented by a former international aid worker, to help children learn African geography in a hands-on manner.

The Africa GeoPuzzle is a jigsaw puzzle map of Africa and the Middle East, with individual pieces shaped like countries. As children assemble the puzzles, they learn about each country from Algeria to Zimbabwe while building cognitive, problem-solving, fine motor, and language skills.

"Lack of geographical knowledge is a big hole in our educational system," says Bob Galinsky, a former international aid worker and founder of GeoToys. "And in the case of Africa, the hole is the size of the Grand Canyon. Clearly, we can do a better job in this country of teaching our kids about the world, and the first thing we need to do is to make geography fun."

GeoPuzzle is designed by art professor Karina Cutler-Lake for children 4 and up, the Africa GeoPuzzle contains 65 brightly colored pieces that fit together to create an entire continent. The Africa GeoPuzzle, which includes the Middle East, is the latest in the line of award-winning GeoPuzzles of major continents. Europe and Asia are already available, with North and South America due in August of 2006.
GeoPuzzles are available online at Timberdoodle, as well as at fine toy retailers (for a list, visit Geo Toys).

Via Prweb

Tags: Geo Puzzle

Made from Robert Neale's penultimate module. This puzzle, folded according the origami techniques and is described in Hugo Steinhaus' book Kalejdoskop matematyczny (Mathematical kaleidoscope). This puzzle consists of six pieces, which can be assembled together to form a cube (see image) or a variety of different shapes.

Via Michal Kosmulski's Homepage

Tags: Origami | Puzzle

TileToy is a modular, electronic game prototype for tangible LED game tiles. TileToy brings the flexibility inherent in digital software to a physical tile that people can touch and interact with. By arranging the electronic tiles, players can engage themselves in various kinds of game play, ranging from fast-paced arcade style games to puzzle an learning games.

The tiles are plastic cases approximately 2" square. The main inspiration for the look and feel comes from the heyday of the LED, when plastic hand-held games ruled the gaming world. This retro-look is fused with a more modern minimal design. The minimalism enhances the magic of cordless boxes that simply communicate with each other. In TileToy, technology is sealed within the design. The interaction is based on tactile experience where no user manual is needed.

The flexible architecture of the tiles makes TileToy a versatile platform for development of various applications from several genres. Compared with traditional tile games TileToy can take advantage of such things as changing state, animations and games where the tiles can effect the state of adjoining tiles. Simple word games can be created where each tile displays a random letter and the players organize the letters into the longest word possible. Numbers and arithmetic characters can be displayed with the player having to arrange the tiles into a sum to give a specified result. Matching games are yet another way the tiles could be programmed to act as a learning aid. Applications can be developed also to utilize the tiles purely for display purposes to show patterns, animations or even live information.

The re-programmable and constantly updated graphical information on each tile is displayed with a LED matrix system. The screen displaying the information is an endlessly versatile surface for updated visual communication. Each tile is controlled individually and can be used to transmit information on its own or in groups of several tiles. The assembled tiles transmit wirelessly their individual position in relation to each other and based on that changing information, a central computer, or a dedicated tile runs the different applications.

TileToy is an open project. Both the source code and the hardware is available via open licenses. This will allow anyone interested to create their own applications and games and feed these back into the community hopefully to spark innovation further. It may even lead to new projects that branch off to make new version of TileToy based on the original hardware. The TileToy process is available from the TileToy blog.

Tags: TileToy | Electronic Game

A long time ago I played Hapland so I checked out if there was a new version available (I found the hapland 1 by cleaning my bookmarks). Via foon.co.uk I found next to Hapland 1, Hapland 2 and also Hapland 3. Hapland looks like a simple Flash puzzle but sometimes you really have to puzzle to find the solution. You can solve the Hapland mysteries by clicking on things. Sometimes you have to click on things (can be more than once). Sometimes it is all about timing. Sometimes helpful icons are engraved on the walls. Just look, click and solve. The Goal is to activate the Portal!

Tags: Hapland 1 | Hapland 2 | Hapland 3 | Flash Puzzle

For all puzzlers with a passion for Rubik's Cube there are now software versions (Java, Linux, Windows) available of Rubik's Cube in four-dimensional and in five-dimensional and they are called Magic Cube. The four-dimensional version has over 1.75E120 possible combinations and is available for free for both Windows and Linux users. They even published their source code for download. Solving it will get your name listed in their Hall Of Fame, and there is also a running competition for the most efficient solution with the least number of twists. At this moment there are already three persons mentioned in hall of insanity who solved the five-dimensional Rubik's Cube.

Tags: Rubik's Cube |4D Magic Cube | 5D Magic Cube

You can register for the 2006 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship (USPC) until June 15, to be held Saturday, June 17, 2006. There are 25 or so mind-bending pencil-and-paper puzzles that you have to solve within 2-1/2 hours. The USPC is a qualifying test to choose 2 members for the U.S. team at the 2006 World Puzzle Championship (WPC) to be held in Borovets, Bulgaria in October 2006. To find out what kind of puzzles you can expect you can try the 2006 Practice Test. For more of a workout the real tests for 2004 and 2005 are still available.

Via slashdot

Tags: World Puzzle Championship | WPC | USPC

Colour Sudoku is another variant of Sudoku and can be found online via Colour Sudoku. Also an explanation how Colour Sudoku should be solved can be found on their website.
It's very simple: In Colour Sudoku, instead of filling in the numbers 1 to 9 in each of the 3 by 3 blocks, you must enter 1 to 9 in the 9 boxes of each colour - for example there are nine yellow boxes. This means you have to look all over the Sudoku to see where the numbers fit in stead of each row or column.
I think the only downside is that you have to print them on a colour printer because you can not solve them online (yet) and the colours are too close to really see the diffence in a blink. Hopefully they solve these two problems soon.

Tags: Sudoku | Colour Sudoku

A few days ago I already read an article about WordPlay on Puzzlinks. On several websites you can find clues for the WordPlay Puzzle Contest. One of those sites is Movie Online.and they take part of an internet Crossword Puzzle to celebrate the release of WordPlay. You will have to visit a variety of sites to solve a puzzle on the official WordPlay site go there and then click on "The Challenge" and then "Scavenger Hunt".
WordPlay Hits theatres June 16th 2006. This irreverent and humorous film focuses on the man most associated with crossword puzzles, New York Times puzzle editor and NPR puzzle-master Will Shortz. Director Patrick Creadon introduces us to this passionate hero, and to the inner workings of his brilliant and often hilarious contributors, including syndicated puzzle creator Merl Reagle.

In addition to deconstructing this uniquely American institution, WordPlay takes you though the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament where almost five hundred competitors battled it out for the title "Crossword Champ" and showed their true colors along the way. You can also find a movie review of WordPlay (2006) movie review at Movies Online.

Tags: WordPlay | puzzle contest | movie

Play Sudoku on your TV with this Sudoku Video Game. According to First Street Online.com "It's easy to set up, plugging directly into the television, and provides a nearly unlimited supply of puzzles ranging from the easy to the difficult. Multiple functions allow you to get help on a difficult puzzle, note possible numbers for one square, or create your own puzzles. A timer lets you see how long it takes you to complete a puzzle". For $29.95 it's yours. For more information check-out their Sudoku Video Game page.

Tags: sudoku | video game

By looking at the picture I thought is was just a simple puzzle, but I was wrong. This is Art and I found it on a website called Art Wanted. The fine piece of art is called "Puzzle - for print purposes" and painted by Asbjorn Lonvig with Acrylic on canvas, 201 x 139 cm (79.2 x 54,8 inches). It is inspired by company Easy Food in Denmark. This Puzzle symbolizes the human resource policy (HR) in this industrial company. The original is already sold but you can still buy a numbered and signed print on paper or canvas for just US$ 2350.00.
Well did you ever thought this about a puzzle? At least I am looking at puzzles right now in a different perspective.

Tags: Puzzle Art

As requested by a reader of this blog just another link to more than 100+ printable Sudoku's for free in pdf format. Available in levels Easy, Medium and Hard. For the ones how love to solve Sudoku's online for free just click here to visit the online Sudoku pages of thanassis.com. There are
twelve sudoku puzzles to solve, from very easy to very hard, each giving away a letter of the 12-character password that gets you to see the congratulations message. Puzzle with passion!

Tags: Sudoku

A few weeks ago in a Belgium magazine called Humo was a Sudoku variation I did not know yet. It is called ChaoSudoku. Unfortunately this magazine ended up in the paper recycling bin (what is good for the environment) but now I was unable to scan it and publish it right here. The nine, 3 by 3, squares are replace by random shaped boxes with space for still the nine digits you need to enter within the Sudoku. The rule that in each column and row must completed by the digits one till nine is still valid. Some 'Google-ing" did not help me much. Luckily I found a Dutch website called Tazuku where they explain the ChaoSudoku in Dutch. You can use Babelfish to translate the webpage or just look at the images which will explain it all. If you know where I can find ChaoSudoku's on the internet please let me know.

Tags: ChaoSudoku | Sudoku

As promised a few days ago more solutions for Katamino. Still a result from my birthday present a few weeks ago. Progress is not as fast as I hoped for but I am really busy the last few weeks. The solution for Penta 3, penta 4, penta 5 and penta 6 can be found in this pdf-document [280 kb]. The solutions for the other Penta's will be published soon at this blog. So please be sure you bookmark blog this blog.

Tags: Katamino | Katamino Solution

At jigsawdoku you can find a nice flash version of Sudoku. And the best of all, it's for free. Just drag the numbers into the Sudoku grid. There are Sudoku's for children as well as the real Sudoku addicts. There are 4x4 (easy), 6x6 (easy and medium) and 9x9 (easy, medium and hard) Sudoku's available. And to make the Sudoku more difficult you can use instead of numbers, symbols or letters. It's still a beta release but I did not find any problems using it. I really liked the drag and drop option of this Sudoku. Enjoy your new online resource of Sudoku's.

Tags: Jigsawdoku | Sudoku | Flash game

This amazing piece of work I found via The Goldfish Online. As well as Martin James Howard from the Goldfish Online as Maarten Steurbaut build a working Rubik's Cube by using Lego and are both AFOL's (Adult Fans Of Lego). Maarten explains on his website by using a lot of pictures how he designed and build his Rubik's Cube which weights more than 6 kg (6.6 pounds) and in still able to rotate. The only downside is that the internal axes, which enable Rubik's Cube to rotate, are too weak. Each cube size (in Lego) is 8x8x8 so the total size of the Lego Cube is 24x24x24. Maarten also built a smaller (4x4x4) version of Rubik's Cube with Lego and also described how he builds this one.

Tags: Lego | Rubik's Cube | AFOL (Adult Fans Of Lego)

Every Saturday a Dutch newspaper called NRC publishes a special Sudoku. A normal Sudoku consists of 9 squares (3 by 3) but the NRC Sudoku has 13 squares which all must be filled with the digits 1 till 9. By using 13 squares they can create Sudoku's with not more than eleven clues to start with. To be able to solve Sudoku you need a NRC subscription. I know this is for most of the readers of Passion for Puzzles blog not an option. So if you want more information about the NRC Sudoku's here is a link where you can a brief description of NRC Sudoku's in English, including some Sudoku examples to solve.

Tags: Sudoku

You can now register for The U.S. National Rubik's Cube which will take place from the 4th till the 6th of August 2006 in San Francisco, California USA. More information about registration, the different events, 3-day schedule and preliminary rounds can be found at the U.S. National Rubik's Cube
Championship 2006 website

Tags: Speedcubing | Rubiks Cube

Finally you can register for the European Rubik's Cube Championship 2006 via speedcubing.com. I already announced this in a previous post that more information should be available end of April but with a little delay you can now register for the European Rubik's Cube Championship 2006 until the 8th of September 2006. The European Championship Speedcubing 2006 (official competition WCA) will be held on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of September 2006 in Paris, France. This competition is open to citizens of the European countries and Israel.

Tags: Speedcubing | Rubiks Cube

Another quick link to a 12 page printable pdf version [3.9 MB] of 70 Sudoku's for all Sudoku lovers published by the TimesOnline.co.uk. There are different kind of Sudoku's like classic sudoku, killer sudoku's, poly sudoku's, diagonal sudoku's, odd/even sudoku's and 147 sudoku's including all solutions. So for everyone with a passion for sudoku there are at least a few nice sudoku's to solve.

Tags: Sudoku

Moon Valley released a PDA version of puzzle of 15 also known as Sliding game. You can download the PDA software for free and an iPod will be given away each month to the contestant who can solve the puzzle in the least amount of moves. The software includes different variation of Puzzle of 15 like Puzzle of 8 and Puzzle of 24. For each puzzle there are prizes to win. Winners of the Puzzle of 8 receive an iPod Shuffle, winners of the Puzzle of 15 receive an iPod Nano and winners of the Puzzle of 24 receive an iPod Video. Puzzle ... win ... and listen to your favorite music while puzzling.

You can also find an online version of Puzzle of 15 at Passion for Puzzles online puzzle webpage.

Tags: PDA Puzzle | Puzzle of 15

At Puzzle It you can solve several online puzzles. The Hexa Puzzle is the one I liked most and looks much easier than it seems. You only have to place 12 different shaped puzzle into a hexagon (explanation of a hexagon). You can rotate (X-key) and flip (Z-key) all puzzle pieces to solve the puzzle. This puzzle will keep you online for a while.

Tags: Hexa Puzzle | Online Puzzle | Flash Puzzle

The last days were pretty busy at work, but I found some time to start with the birthday present Katamino from last weekend. The first Katamino solutions for Penta 3 and Penta 4 [pdf format 280kb] I solved very quickly if I may say so, although it costs me still a lot of time to pick the correct Pentaminos (puzzle pieces are called Pentaminos) before starting to solve each puzzle. At this moment looking for the right Pentaminos cost me more time than solving each puzzle but I know for sure that will change quickly when starting with Penta number 5. The solutions for the other Penta's will be published soon.

Happy Puzzling.

Tags: Katamino Solution