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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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Bits And Pieces |
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Since 1983
millions of customers have been supplied with clever
puzzles and intriguing gifts of the highest quality
through the Bits And Pieces mail order catalog and
website. You'll find there quite a unique selection
of original puzzles, games, toys, books, and gifts
many of which were designed exclusively by the Bits
And Pieces product development team in fruitful
liaisons with the World's most famous puzzle creators. |
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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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Erich's Place |
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This website shows
numerous interests of Erich Friedman, an Associate
Professor of Mathematics at Stetson University. He
runs several differently themed websites jam-packed
with unique, high-level collections of math puzzles
and recreations; among them
Erich's Puzzle Palace,
Math Magic,
and
Erich's Packing Center.
Highly recommended! |
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Adrian Fisher Mazes Ltd. |
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Creating an
unusual, attractive, and tangled maze or labyrinth is
a quite puzzling task itself. Adrian Fisher is a
person who knows how to do this in the best way, since
he is the World's leading maze designer. He has
developed hundreds of mazes of numerous kinds, built
of various materials in different places of many
countries all over the World. |
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The Crafty Puzzle Company |
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This company is a
small family run business, and they can propose you a
newly developed and unique range of decorative
Collapsible Puzzles. These handmade, teak wood 3D
logic puzzles for the whole family will test your IQ
and lateral thinking, and will sit proudly in your
home or office. You'll love to play them! |
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BASE Cinque (BASE Five) |
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Gianfranco Bo's
website has a subtitle "Appunti di Matematica
Ricreativa" what means "Notes of Recreational
Mathematics." It shows a comprehensive collection of
mathematical topics which certainly will be
interesting and useful to math teachers, students,
researchers, and all math lovers. |
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Livewire Puzzles |
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Since 1979
Livewire Puzzles specializes in making and selling
wire disentanglement puzzles of many different designs
and levels of difficulty. Their puzzles are nicely
made, pleasant (though difficult, sometimes) to solve,
and always bring new solving experience. Their website
also has the Free Fun section with a nice selection of
great puzzles. |
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MAA Online |
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With about 30,000
members, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
is the largest, and one of the oldest professional
societies, which focuses on mathematics accessible at
the undergraduate level. Their online home presents
numerous activities which fill the MAA's mission "to
advance the mathematical sciences, especially at the
collegiate level." |
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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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Karakuri Creation Group |
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This is a group of
craftsmen who create secret opening boxes and other
tricky puzzles, and produce them of nice wood and with
the highest quality using traditional and developed
techniques. Many fantastic puzzle makers are the
group's members, among them Akio Kamei, the World's
most renowned puzzle box creator and craftsman. |
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Flash Puzzle Zone |
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The
FlashPuzzleZone.com website is an astounding place on
the Web for all puzzle lovers. The website specializes
in flash photo puzzles and games, and hundreds of
photos they propose can be used as a Jigsaw Puzzle,
Slide Puzzle, Photo Kaleidoscope, Photo Hunt, Photo
Warps, and Stick Puzzles. You will enjoy them! |
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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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Juno's World |
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Junichi Yananose
is one of the most talented creators of mechanical
puzzles, whose puzzle inventions always combine
elegancy and deep puzzle ideas. That's why Junichi's
puzzles have strong puzzling effect, and are very
valued by puzzle lovers, both solvers and collectors.
Some of his puzzle designs became the true puzzle
classics. |
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November 1, 2009 |
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