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 [Read More...]

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. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: design furniture

Finally I have added another Rubik’s puzzle game called Rubik’s Sudoku to my puzzle collection.

Rubik’s Sudoku  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.

Buy Rubik’s Sudoku from Amazon.com. Happy Puzzling!

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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. Happy Puzzling!

Via Speedcubing.com

Tags: Rubik’s Cube

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 combination’s 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 [Read More...]

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 [Read More...]

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

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