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A Colorful Journey through Endless Patterns of Quick Wits |
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Welcome to Age of Puzzles |
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This website is intended as part of
a wide puzzle-book-web project entitled Age of
Puzzles. The project will also include a printed
book which will be created chapter-by-chapter, so that
as a result all these chapters will make a comprehensive
mosaic of puzzles created by different people in
different time and at different places. |
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Ten Hearts |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Place twelve pieces within a
rectangular card so that exactly ten hearts appear.
Every heart consists of two halves. Overlapping of the
pieces is not allowed, and no part of hearts must be
left out... |
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Puzzles.COM |
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The Five Hearts Puzzle |
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Helen Homa and Peter Grabarchuk |
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How can you mend a broken heart...
That's not only a lovely classic song, but also a core
of a newest tricky slider in which your heart challenge
is to mend not just one but whole five hearts, each in
its own color. Happy and Colorful Valentine's Day!.. |
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Hearts & Diamonds |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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A circular plate decorated with
hearts and diamonds is made of two parts--a smaller
central disk is placed in the middle of a bigger one.
There are more hearts than diamonds on the plate.
Rotating the central disk counterclockwise, you can make
the numbers of the hearts and the diamonds equal. One
additional diamond appears! Could you explain this?... |
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Puzzles.COM |
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Coin Lines Exchange |
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Rodolfo Kurchan and
Jaime Poniachik |
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Six coins, three silver and three
gold ones, form two lines placed in the middle of the 4
x 5 board. Coins can only jump over other coins. Your
goal is to exchange the lines in exactly nine moves... |
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Nuevos Solitarios
Clasicos
by Rodolfo Kurchan and Jaime Poniachik. |
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Nuevos Solitarios Clasicos
(New Classic Solitaires) |
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Rodolfo Kurchan and
Jaime Poniachik |
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This book is devoted entirely to
puzzles with pieces moved and jumped on special grids.
These puzzles are known as solitaire or counter puzzles.
The book brings several new types of such puzzles and
presents 108 modern puzzle creations which will provide
you with a clever entertainment, and can give you a
solid mental gymnastics... |
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Puzzles 101: A
Puzzlemaster's Challenge
by Nob Yoshigahara. |
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Puzzles 101: A Puzzlemaster's Challenge |
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Nob Yoshigahara |
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A Japanese puzzle creator
extraordinaire, Nobuyuki Yoshigahara, has published over
70 puzzle books in Japan, and created a huge variety of
puzzles manufactured and sold all over the World. This
tiny but quite powerful puzzle collection is the only
Nob's puzzle book translated in English and published
outside Japan. It proposes a well balanced blend of
advanced and simple puzzles--manipulative, math, visual,
and of some other types... |
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Seven: The Number for Happiness, Love, and Success |
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Jacqueline Leo |
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Jacqueline Leo is a media guru, who
has held a number of high-level positions in publishing
and television. Her new book published by
Twelve (Hachette
Book Group) is fully devoted to the number seven,
and presents hundreds of interesting, fun, and amazing
facts about this truly unique and fabulous number. The book also
contains several puzzles, ancient through modern,
playing with the number seven... |
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Strimko for the iPhone/iPod touch |
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Quokka Studios Pty Ltd and
The Grabarchuk Family |
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STRIMKO™, the popular web-based
logical puzzle game, comes to the iPhone/iPod touch. The
Strimko app presents 120 never before published,
hand-crafted puzzles in four difficulty levels--Easy,
Medium, Hard, and Master. Puzzles are in four sizes, 4 x
4 through 7 x 7. An intelligent hinting system can help
you, when you get stuck. Additional puzzle packs
available... |
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Strimko.com/iPhone |
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LetsTans for the iPhone/iPod touch |
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The Grabarchuk Family and
Mehmet Murat Sevim |
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LetsTans is a new visual puzzle
developed for the iPhone/iPod touch. With 180 original
challenges presented in three distinctive play modes, it
delivers a totally new puzzle experience of the
captivating Tangram's spirit and energy. Neat
graphics, sounds, and animations, and an advanced Hints
system guarantee you hours of pleasant and smart
enjoyment... |
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LetsTans.com |
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The MG Coin Puzzle |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Seven coins form a stylized M.
Moving a coin at a time and observing a "double touch"
rule, rearrange the M into another stylized letter, G.
Could you achieve the goal in four single coin moves?... |
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Martin Gardner |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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No one has a
bigger influence on the Puzzle World history and
achievements than Martin Gardner. His interests
cover many fields such as Mathematics, Magic,
Philosophy, Science, and Literature. Every true puzzle
lover knows Martin Gardner first of all because of his
excellent
puzzle books
which make a fantastic modern library of Recreational
Mathematics. Now Martin Gardner celebrates his 95th
birthday. Happy Birthday to You, Mr. Gardner! |
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The Bat |
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Serhiy Jr.
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Peter Grabarchuk |
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The Bat is formed of ten matches.
The goal is simple: Move only three matches so that the
Bat flies in another direction. Bear in mind that you
have to use matches without any special tricks like
cutting, breaking or overlapping... |
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The Eight Puzzle |
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Peter Grabarchuk |
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The 8 shape can be assembled with
twelve different pieces consisting of four equilateral
triangles each. Can you discover the way how to do that?
You may rotate pieces as you like, but not overlap or
flip them over... |
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Triangle Folds |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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You have three paper rectangles
colored in two colors, yellow and red. Using them, make
an equilateral triangle colored fully in red on one of
its sides and fully in yellow--on the other. Note that
you can perform just one simple fold for each rectangle... |
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Play With Your Mind |
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This website
features over 100 original mind games, puzzles,
brainteasers and IQ tests. If you haven't yet heard,
playing brain games exercises your cognitive abilities
and improves your brain fitness. So if you are looking
for a way to hone your mind, or to exercise your
special mental talents, take some time to explore
around, play some games, have some good clean fun ...
and become smarter in the process. |
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Puzzle Fun |
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Puzzle Fun is a
printed magazine devoted to the pentominoes and other
polyominoes. It was started by Rodolfo Kurchan in
1994, and published for six years in succession up to
the end of 2000. Now all of its issues are accessible in an
electronic format on the Puzzle Fun website. In
October of 2009 Puzzle Fun #23 appeared. Its main
theme is Blocking Polyominoes, and it contains a lot
of excellent challenges. |
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Wood Frustrations |
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Tom Lensch is a
puzzle collector and puzzle craftsman extraordinaire.
For almost two decades he makes different wooden
puzzles of the highest quality. These are
put-together, take-apart and interlocking puzzles
which have extremely pleasant look and enjoyable play.
Tom designs own puzzles, collaborates with many famous
puzzle designers, and attends different international
puzzle meetings. |
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Ton Delsing - Puzzle Design |
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Ton Desing
collects, designs, and produces different puzzles. His
website is devoted
exclusively for puzzle exchanges. If you see there some puzzle(s) you like to swap with Ton for some of yours,
send to him a message with pictures of your proposals
and tell him about your interest. Ton will let you know
which of your puzzle(s) he is interested in. Then your
exchange can be done. |
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Tankenötter AB |
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Erik Johansson
created many outstanding puzzles of different kinds.
Some of them look just like simple toys, but do not be
misled--quite unexpectedly they pose hard challenges.
Just try to disconnect two wooden rings; or pair beads
in a 4-bead necklace; or release a rope loop from a
wire tangle; or made a 2-3-4 burr; or build a
two-layered log pile. There is even much more to try
and be amazed with. |
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MechanicalPuzzles.net |
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Juanan's website
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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IQ Flash |
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One more website
by Sergei Melnikov, proposing another great collection
of excellent math, brain, logic and board games, and
different puzzles. You will find there The Comets and
Fruits Battle, Tic-tac-toe by Silverman and Rhumb
Line, Four Color and Model Memory, Breakfast
Brainstorm and Glazed Run, Nine Squares and Cram, Sim
and Draw Path, and a lot more. All's highly enjoyable
and addictive! |
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TLS Brain Training |
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TLS Brain Training
is a puzzle-based game with more than a dozen logic,
spatial, memory, and math puzzles. They include
put-together and moving piece puzzles, word puzzles,
magic squares and calculations, play with sounds and
pictures, and other. The game is designed to give the
smart and enjoyable learning to players of ages 10 and
up, and its motto is: "Easy to Learn, Tough to Master,
Fun to Play!" |
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CasualPuzzles.com |
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Casual games meet
puzzles. This website is a resource for puzzlers
looking for puzzles played using web browsers or
mobile devices. It proposes Ready-to-play Free Puzzles
of many genres appealing to all age groups--from teens
to retirees. Quality puzzles and games that use logic,
spatial awareness, and pattern recognition are
gathered to provide entertaining play that challenges
the brain. |
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IQ Test Experts |
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If you have
queries about IQ, IQ Tests, or IQ Scores, or want to
know if you are a Genius or what it takes to be a
Genius, then do not hesitate to go to the IQ Test
Experts website and get all answers there. That
website proposes online IQ tests, articles on the
matter, puzzles and brain teasers, riddles, flash
games, rebus puzzles, and many links to different
related websites. |
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PUZZLED - Handcrafted Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles and Toys |
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Jeannette Aragon
makes and sells handcrafted wooden puzzles and toys.
At her website you will find creatively designed,
durably made, reasonably priced, heirloom quality,
handcrafted wooden puzzles and toys that are safe and
fun for all ages. They include jigsaw and name
puzzles, educational puzzles and Waldorf-inspired
toys, 3D and photo puzzles, and puzzles that can be
created just for you. |
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SeriousPuzzles.com |
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This website can
be your desired destination for brain teasers and
puzzles of all kinds. It proposes thousands of jigsaw
puzzles by nearly every major manufacturer in the
World! Hundreds of brainteasers of many different
types and of various materials to choose from can
satisfy any puzzle lover. In addition, there is a wide
selection of puzzle books, games, and puzzle
accessories. |
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Nob Yoshigahara |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Every century has bright, creative,
and smart people who are opening to the whole Puzzle
World's community new horizons. A Japanese puzzle guru
and genius, Nobuyuki Yoshigahara
(1936-2004), or Nob as everybody
used to call him, was one of such puzzle leaders... |
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Featured Collections |
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Previous Features |
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Last Updated:
February 13, 2010 |
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• Coin Lines Exchange •
• The MG Coin Puzzle •
• The Bat •
• The Eight Puzzle •
• Ten Hearts •
• Triangle Folds •
• Halloween Cuts • |
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• Strimko for the iPhone/iPod
touch •
• LetsTans for the iPhone/iPod touch • |
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• The Christmas-tree Mosaic • |
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• Nuevos Solitarios Clasicos •
• Puzzles 101: A
Puzzlemaster's Challenge •
• Seven • |
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• My Puzzle on the 7 Theme • |
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• My Puzzle on the 7 Theme •
• Strimko for the iPhone/iPod
touch •
• LetsTans for the iPhone/iPod touch • |
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• Play With Your Mind •
• Puzzle Fun •
• Wood Frustrations •
• Ton Delsing - Puzzle Design •
• Tankenötter AB •
• MechanicalPuzzles.net •
• IQ Flash •
• TLS Brain Training •
• CasualPuzzles.com •
• IQ Test Experts •
• PUZZLED - Handcrafted Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles and Toys •
• SeriousPuzzles.com • |
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LetsTans for the
iPhone/iPod touch
by The Grabarchuk Family and Mehmet Murat Sevim
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Go to
LetsTans.com |
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The Simple Book of
Not-So-Simple Puzzles
by Serhiy Grabarchuk, Peter Grabarchuk, and Serhiy
Grabarchuk Jr.
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Hole in One
Brainteaser Puzzle
by Peter and Serhiy Grabarchuk.
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Available at
Bits & Pieces (here) |
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Two Sliding Squares
Puzzle
by Serhiy Grabarchuk.
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Available at
Bits & Pieces (here) |
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Puzzles.COM
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the world's best resource for puzzling on the Internet. |
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UniPuzzle.com
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new, high-level puzzles to solve week-by-week. |
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PeterPuzzle.com
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a personal website of a puzzle designer Peter
Grabarchuk. |
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MathPuzzle.com
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a site celebrating Math Puzzles & Math Recreations. |
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GAMES® Magazine Online
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a huge variety of games, brainteasers, quizzes,
contests, and reviews. |
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Hanayama Toys Co.,
Ltd.
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board games, toys, and puzzles for people of all ages. |
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Chronos Co.,
Ltd.
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original puzzles, games, and novelties. |
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A K Peters, Ltd.
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Publishers of Science and Technology. |
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Gakken Co., Ltd.
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World's leading publishers in Education. |
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