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This page features the latest
addition of annotated links to different interesting
websites devoted to puzzles and puzzle related things. To see
even more puzzle websites
just follow the numbered links below to other pages of
our website with annotated puzzle links. |
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Brain Games Books and Puzzles
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Publication
International Ltd. was founded in 1967 and is located
in Lincolnwood, IL. Their popular Brain Games book
series was developed to help men, women, and children
of all ages improve their memory, sharpen their
cognitive skills, and heighten their puzzle prowess.
Scientific research shows that exercising your brain
can make it function better, keeping your mind healthy
and fit at any age. Hence their motto: Lower Your
Brain Age in Minutes a Day! |
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The Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection (Online) |
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This online, easy
searchable collection presents puzzles gathered for
many decades by the World's most renowned puzzle
collector and author, Jerry Slocum. His current
collection counts 30,000 puzzles and 4,000
puzzle-related books, and reflects, literally, all the
long and bright history of the Mechanical Puzzle
phenomenon. Also, about 400 puzzles are on display in
the
Slocum Puzzle Room
at the Indiana University
Lilly Library. |
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Will Shortz Quizzes... |
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Each week,
New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's
Puzzlemaster
Will Shortz
presents an
on-air
challenge
to one contestant and gives a challenge for
Weekend Edition Sunday
listeners at home. Listeners
who
submit
the correct answer to the NPR win a chance to play the
on-air puzzle and test their wits with Will Shortz. |
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UniPuzzle.com |
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I'm pleased to present this new puzzle website created and
maintained by Serhiy Grabarchuk, Jr. Innovative,
family-friendly puzzle and game concepts make the core
mission of the UniPuzzle.com website and the UniPuzzle™
Team. Undoubtedly, this website is a welcomed addition
to the family of great virtual puzzle spaces. Its
motto, "Your Puzzle Resort" promises nice finds for
all and every of its visitors. |
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Peter Grabarchuk. Puzzle Designer. |
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This is a personal
website of Peter Grabarchuk, who is one of the World's
most talented and active puzzle creators. His
activities are very wide: working as the art director at
Puzzles.COM,
collaboration with
ThinkFun, Inc.,
web and puzzle designing, puzzle solving, book
writing, participation in the main international
puzzle events, and many other. This eye-catching website is well worth
visiting and exploring on your own! |
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Celebration of Mind II |
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On Friday, October 21, 2011, the
second annual
G4G Martin Gardner Celebration of Mind event took place all around the World.
This day would have been Martin Gardner's 97th Birthday,
and the simultaneous events worldwide celebrated his
incomparable life and work, including magic, puzzles,
recreational math, Lewis Carroll, and the many other
topics he loved. The
Gathering for Gardner Foundation welcomed everybody
to join this celebration party in any possible forms and
at places just next to you. More details can be found
here. |
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Rubiks Puzzles |
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Juanan's website
(in Spanish)
is fully devoted to sequential movement puzzles, like
the phenomenal Rubik's Cube and other similar puzzles.
The website has a clear navigation, so you can easily
find there information on the World's most noted
puzzle inventors, puzzle collectors and collections,
puzzle descriptions and shops where you can buy them,
links and forums, and other interesting and useful
things. |
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Kadon Enterprises, Inc. |
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If you like
high-quality, award-winning polyform and edgematching
puzzles, and unusual games, this website is the best
place to visit. This company, founded by Kate Jones,
is a pioneer in laser-cutting of different acrylic and
wooden puzzle sets. At their website you'll find an
online gallery of over two hundred games and puzzles
to see and purchase. Also, they propose many
interactive playable features. |
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Logic Mazes |
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Robert Abbott is
the World's leading creator and expert in mazes of all
kinds. His website presents an incredible variety of
different ideas which will entangle your imagination
and amuse your mind. Theseus and the Minotaur (also
for the
iPhone and iPod Touch
now), Alice
Mazes, Sliding Door Maze, Mazes with Things That Roll,
The Bureaucratic Maze, and Dungeon Mazes, just to name
a few. There you'll find some interactive versions of
these mazes. One of them is the
Starry Night Maze;
it is on the
GAMES® website. |
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SmartKit - Brain Gym & Puzzle Playground |
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This website
founded by a neurologist, creates an environment
of mental health supplying at a regular basis things
that stimulate and excersise many areas of your brain.
These are puzzles, brainteasers, interactive
excersises, thinking games, and clever articles on the
matter. Altogether these thinking things make a smart
brain kit immersing you mind into mental gymnastics
and so giving it cognition and health. |
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The Sam Loyd Company |
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This company is
fully devoted to the work and legacy of Sam Loyd, who
was America's biggest puzzlist. At their interactive
website you can see Sam Loyd's original office
reconstructed after one of his interview. In the
website's store you'll find the Commemorative Edition
(limited to just 1000 copies!) of several Loyd's
classic puzzles such as "Get Off The Earth", "Tricky
Donkeys", and "The Pony Puzzle." |
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Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles |
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Alexander
Bogomolny's website is the only one of its kind
resource of math related things selected and prepared
to help teachers, parents, and students in their
efforts to enrich learning of Mathematics, and
building ways to appreciate its powerful beauty. With
more than 700 Java applets accompanying many of
presented topics, this website is a must be
destination for all math and puzzle lovers. |
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Rob's Puzzle Page |
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This online
mechanical puzzle collection is maintained by Rob
Stegmann, and with 2000+ items described, it's the
biggest virtual collection of this kind. First of all,
the website impresses with a lot of pictures showing
puzzles of all possible types accompanied with
relevant information. Go to the What's New page first,
and be amazed! |
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Piet Hein |
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This website is
about Piet Hein, a Danish designer, inventor, poet,
artist, scientist, and philosopher. His creations
remain popular for many decades, and some of them were
never surpassed. Just mention a few of them: the Soma
Cube puzzle; the Hex game; a new geometric solid,
Superellipse; or short aphoristic poems, Grooks. |
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Thorleif's SOMA Page |
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Thorleif
Bundgård's website is the biggest, and most
comprehensive source devoted exclusively to the Soma
Cube -- one of the most popular puzzles in in the
history of mankind. The website shows over 6400
figures, original Danish and Parker Bros. booklets,
history, theories, proofs, newsletters, a downloadable
program-solver, and a lot more! |
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Archimedes' Laboratory |
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An award-winning,
highly visual website created by writers, designers
and inventors Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber.
The website's motto -- "Put colors into your grey
matter!" -- is so appealing that no puzzle enthusiasts
resist the colorful spectrum of original, clever and
tricky puzzles, illusions, tricks, tests, paradoxes,
and other fun things and curiosities. |
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The Puzzle Museum |
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James Dalgety's
website describing quite a unique and the Wold's
biggest and finest collection of Mechanical Puzzles.
This private collection was started in 1886, and now
it counts several tens of thousands of puzzles and a
comprehensive puzzle library. Many rare and unknown
puzzle samples are presented at the website. Highly
recommended! |
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The Sliding Block Puzzle Page |
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If you are a sliding
block puzzle lover, then Nick Baxter's comprehensive
collection of playable Java versions of well-known and
rare samples of this puzzle kind is a right place for
you. There you can see original puzzles from all
prominent designers of sliding block puzzles. Almost
all puzzles are provided with minimal numbers of moves
necessary to solve them. |
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MathPuzzle.com |
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Ed Pegg Jr.'s
website is highly recommended to every math+puzzle
lover, and especially to those who would like to fall
in this incomparable mix deeper than just for simple
fun. The website regularly proposes the newest puzzles
and links to exotic math+puzzle places on the Web,
useful info, and, above all, the true spirit of
serious puzzling. |
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Last
Updated: March 1, 2012
Posted: November 19, 2009 |
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