Earlier this month, my newest book entitled Exceptional Eye Tricks was released.  The book features nine chapters of different categories of optical illusions with additional information about the illusions located in the back.  One of these chapters is devoted to “motion illusions”.  These types of illusions are static but appear to be moving (as if they were animated).  As such, they tend to be very popular on the Internet.  While the effect is noticeably better when viewed on a computer monitor, they also work well in print.

The cover of this book features a great example of a motion illusion [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Optical Illusions

The Wedding Vows is a classic puzzle if there ever was one.  It was around when marriage was deemed to be a permanent union.  Nowadays,things have changed, and separations are much more common, and the parties go back to where they were.  This puzzle demonstrates this phenomen wery well.

All that aside; the Wedding Vows is a great puzzle that is very well made and will entertain puzzlers of all aqes and solving skills.  Though fairly difficult; once you get it figured out, the 2 rings can be joined together and separated [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Wood Puzzles

Although a bit expensive, Architecto is a great game and will provide years of entertainment. On the side of the box,it suggests the game is for 7+. I suggest kids even younger will love playing with it and making whatever they make with different shaped blocks. Then, there is the enjoyment that older youth and all adults will have trying to build the structures suggested in the book. Even when one has made all the structures,those with a creative mind will find there are many other structures that can be constructed. Although there are 18 “blocks”, not [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Put together Puzzles, Wood Puzzles

Mickey is another cute design by Jean Claude Constantin. This little puzzle looks harmless, but like all string puzzles it can become a knot fest in no time. Read further as I share with you my experience with this little devil.

Just like most puzzles by Constantin, the design is quite original. The metal frame, as the name suggests, resembles the shape of Disney’s character Mickey. The frame is comprised of two small loops perpendicular to each other, and a string with a bead at the end. The goal, as you might’ve already guessed, is to remove the [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Metal Puzzles

Logi5Puzz is a free puzzle game app from Hui-Min Lu. It is simlar to sudoku and is essentially a Latin Square.  Each color region must have the #s 1-5.  Same for each row and column.

Logi5Puzz is not new, but it is fast and free.  Good for young puzzlers.

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Category: All Puzzles, iPhone/iPad Puzzle Games

Whenever you see Jerry Slocum and any of his associates,in this case Dic Sonneveld,involved in something; you can count on it being First Class.

This new book is simply delightful for any puzzle lover. They take one of the most common of all puzzles,The 15 Puzzle,and show that it has a background that arguably makes it the most popular puzzle craze of all time.

The book is a great read,filled with everything about the puzzle; from its creation,and how it took the whole world by storm. Much of what the book covers is unknown [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Puzzle Books

Yikerz is an amazing game conceived using the principles of magnets.As everyone knows two magnets will repel or attract depending on how they touch one another.  We also know that this principle is also demonstrated when they get close,even without touching,and depending on how “strong” the magnets are.  Also several magnets will stick together.

What this game does is use the properties of magnets to create an exciting game or challenge for one player or several. The thing that made a game like this really exciting was the super strength magnets that appeared about a decade or [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Magnetic Puzzles