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This page features sample puzzles
of different kinds from this and other sections of the
website. To see more puzzles of these types
just follow the links to their respective pages. |
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Put-Together Puzzles
Matchstick Puzzles
Sliding Block Puzzles
Coin Puzzles
Chess Puzzles
Checkered Origami Patterns
Origami Strip Puzzles
Dissection Puzzles
Geometric Puzzles
Puzzle Mix
Puzzle
Favorites
Puzzle Hits
Puzzle Greetings
Projects
Games
Interactive Puzzle Play |
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Featured Puzzles |
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Mosaic Eggs |
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The Grabarchuk Family |
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In the mosaic, find a pair of
exactly identical eggs. Note that they can be rotated
but not mirrored. Happy Easter!... |
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The Mirage Puzzle |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Fifteen transparent tiles and one
opaque tile are placed within a flat, 3 x 3 box with a
transparent top and bottom. All transparent tiles have
special patterns. Slide tiles to reach the goal position
with all cells showing seven dots each. Note that the central opaque tile is as thick as
two transparent tiles are. |
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The Spiral Galaxy Mystery |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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The stars that form this unique
spiral galaxy are Supernova, Nebula, Red Giant,
Protostar, White Dwarf, and Black Dwarf, as shown in the
Start position. Stars can move just along the lines of
the galaxy. Your star challenge is to move the stars to
the Goal position sliding one star at a time, in exactly
fifteen single sliding moves... |
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Geduldspiele |
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Sliding Tiles for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad |
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The Grabarchuk Family and
Mehmet Murat Sevim |
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Here is one of the most original
collection of sliders, comprising 300 hand-crafted
puzzles, all with realistic and fun gameplay. Sliders (aka
sliding block puzzles) are highly dynamic and incredibly
compact puzzles first popularized in the 19th century.
We have constantly been creating this collection of
sliders during the past 20 years, and many of them were
changed into physical toys or online versions on the
Web. Now it becomes available to all iPhone, iPod touch
and iPad puzzle lovers!... |
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Fish Crackers for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad |
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by
The Grabarchuk Family and
Mehmet Murat Sevim |
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One of the most advanced assembling
puzzles on the App Store is here! It features 100
original puzzles with real 2D physics - move, rotate,
and bump pieces as real physical objects. Puzzles are
ranged from very simple with 3 pieces only, up to really
hard ones with 9 pieces. Some years ago
this puzzle was manufactured and distributed
exclusively in Japan. Now it becomes available to all
iPhone, iPod touch and iPad puzzle lovers all over the
World!... |
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Puzzle Quizzes for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad
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The Grabarchuk Family and
Mehmet Murat Sevim |
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Discover a new type of puzzles -
Puzzle Quizzes. Solve 300 original, hand-crafted puzzles
with an intuitive touch-and-answer gameplay. Challenges
are created in dozens of varied and appealing themes and
difficulty levels so that to satisfy all puzzle lovers
-- beginners, experienced, and masters alike... |
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iCut for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad |
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The Grabarchuk Family and
Mehmet Murat Sevim |
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iCut is a brand-new visual puzzle
developed for the iPhone/iPod touch. The object is to
cut different shapes into congruent parts by painting
them into different colors. The parts must be identical
in size and shape, and may be rotated and/or reflected.
Sounds easy? iCut proposes you over 1000 different
challenges in six distinctive modes. Challenges are
ranged from the easiest to the extremely hard, so let's
give'em a try!... |
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Tappi Adventures for the iPhone/iPod touch |
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by
The Grabarchuk Family and
Mehmet Murat Sevim |
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Welcome to Tappi's adventures! He's
taken pictures from all of them, but accidentally all
those pictures have been broken :( Help Tappi restore
the proper picture of each adventure, and you'll see
what cities he's visited, what modern World Wonders he's
seen, what sports are played around the globe, and much
more! You are welcome to explore Tappi's adventures in
12 different themes containing 12 different adventures
of 3 different difficulty levels each... |
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The Christmas Star |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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The colorful inlay hides a perfect,
four-pointed Christmas star. The star is exactly similar
to that shown just above the inlay, but can differ in
size and orientation. Can you find the Christmas star?... |
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Dicey Multiplication |
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by Werner Miller |
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Here is a novel version of
traditional play with numbers. The challenge is to
arrange "standard" dice into a pyramidal multiplication
with their top faces read out the factors of the
multiplication and the front faces read out the correct
product... |
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LetsTans for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad |
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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 and iPad. With over 1500 original
challenges presented in ten 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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Strimko for PC/Mac |
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by
Braintonik Inc. and
The Grabarchuk Family |
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Now STRIMKO™, the popular web-based
logical puzzle game, comes as a PC/Mac game. It presents
two distinctive play modes. In the Adventure mode, help
Luana save her planet by collecting celestial Amulets
and reassembling her magical Astrolabe. In the Classic
mode, you can enjoy playing more than 200 hand-crafted,
mind bending, Strimko puzzles. Each play mode comprises
four different types of Strimko challenges--Zen, Pave,
Fit, and Tri--all in various sizes and difficulty
levels. In the Adventure mode you can additionally play
ten mini-games what will make your adventure even more
pleasant!... |
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Strimko.com/PC-Mac |
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Electronic Brain Games with Puzzle Books |
This puzzle set is a series of
books activated by an Interactive Reader (it recognizes
text and images on the book pages and looks like an
oversized pen) that provide puzzles and other mental
challenges to stimulate the human brain.
Touching the Reader's optic point to a page enables you
to solve puzzles and challenges, ask for hints, time
yourself while working a puzzle, and more. The Reader
also has a mechanical pencil. A cartridge that slips
into the Reader contains all the audio for the books.
The set also includes a set of ear buds.
The first set comprises two puzzle books, Brain Training and
Picture Puzzles. The expanded
set contains six puzzle books: Brain Training,
Brain Training2, Picture Puzzles,
Picture Puzzles2, Sudoku Puzzles, and
Crosswords... |
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Coin Lines Exchange |
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by
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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Strimko for the iPhone/iPod touch |
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by
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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The Bat |
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by
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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Puzzles.COM |
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The Eight Puzzle |
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by
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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Puzzles.COM |
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Ten Hearts |
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by
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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Triangle Folds |
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by
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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Puzzles.COM |
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Halloween Cuts |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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A piece of checkered cloth shows
nine letters that spell: H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N. Make three
cuts and obtain four fragments--then a square, using
them, try to form. Trick or Treat!... |
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The MG Coin Puzzle |
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by
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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Double Play |
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by
Larry D. Nichols |
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Double Play resembles the 15
Puzzle, with square tiles numbered 1 through 12
contained in a 4 x 4 frame along with four empty cells.
It has just one new rule: The tiles can only slide in
pairs, with one tile pushing another. Move tiles from
any given or random position (pattern) back to the Home
pattern, and bear in mind that all of the Double Play
challenges are quite difficult. Happy Puzzling!... |
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Square & Division |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Eight matches form a 2 x 2 square.
With four additional matches divide this square into two
parts of the same area and shape. But remember that you
have to use matches without any special tricks like
cutting, breaking or overlapping... |
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Puzzles.COM |
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The Marbles & Rows Puzzle |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Put nine square tiles with color
marbles into a 3 x 3 square so that to get nine
horizontal and nine vertical rows of marbles containing
exactly four marbles of four different colors each.
Distances between the marbles and their order in the
rows do not matter... |
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Serpentine Lines |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Can you determine which three (and
only three!) serpentine lines out of eight given ones
will form (when you stack them together) a full grid?
You may rotate serpentine lines as you like, but you
cannot flip them over... |
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Puzzles.COM |
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The Fish |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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This puzzle combines a sliding
block puzzle with a matchstick puzzle. Eight matches
pasted onto square pieces within a 3 x 4 tray form a
fish which swims to the right. Slide pieces to rearrange
them so that the fish swims in the opposite direction... |
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Break-in-Two |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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A shape consists of square cells.
The object is to divide it into two congruent parts.
They must be identical in size and shape, but you may
rotate them and their outlines can even be reflections
of each other... |
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Cut the Q |
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by
Peter Grabarchuk |
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You have a stylized letter Q. Your
challenge is to cut it into two congruent parts. They
must be the same size and shape, but may be rotated
and/or reflected. Note that your cuts may be done
anywhere, not just along the lines of the diagram... |
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Puzzles.COM |
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Parted Cube |
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by
Peter Grabarchuk |
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Each of the eight combinations of
four unit, 1 x 1 x 1 cubes fits within a transparent, 2
x 2 x 2 cube. Determine which two shapes can make a
whole, 2 x 2 x 2 cube when joined together? Keep in mind
that unit cubes in each shapes are separate (not joined)... |
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Twins |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Some of the nine shapes make pairs
consisting of two exactly identical shapes each. Shapes
of each pair are shown from different directions, but
never reflected. How many pairs can you recognize? Which
shapes make 'em?... |
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The Holey Square Family |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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One of the simplest geometric
paradoxes with vanishing areas was described by Martin
Gardner in his classic book, Mathematics, Magic and
Mystery, in 1956. The paradox is more than two
centuries old, but it still attracts attention of
puzzlers, mathematicians, and magicians. And that is why
there are dozens of different variations based on its
principle... |
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The Tangramion |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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This is a new assembling puzzle
consisting of seven two-sided tiles which initially form
a perfect square. Using all the seven tiles, you can
solve different challenges both entertaining and
cognitive... |
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The Tangramboard Plus |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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The
Tangramboard puzzle extended with an additional
checkered 3x3 Mini-Tangramboard makes quite a tricky
challenge. Its goal sounds simply: "Using all the 11
checkered tiles, assemble one big (5x5) checkered
square..." |
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Coin Triangle |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Nine coins form a triangle on the
table. The challenge is to change the triangle into
another shape, moving the minimum of the coins. What is
the best result you can reach?... |
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Four Color Rings |
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by
Peter Grabarchuk |
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Segments of four color Rings are
gliding within each of eight square tiles which can
slide within a 3 x 3 tray. The initial position of the
tiles features the complete Yellow Ring. Choose a color
and slide tiles until a complete Ring of that color is
formed. There are three plus one challenge for which you
will need to be fully concentrated. But don't forget to
have a break after each challenge... |
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Bumping Squares |
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Serhiy and
Peter Grabarchuk |
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This sliding block puzzle consists
of eight square tiles. Each tile can be colored into
blue or orange color. When a tile bumps another tile it
changes its color to the color of the tile it bumps
into. I.e. if an orange tile bumps the blue one, the
orange tile changes its color into blue. If an orange
tile bumps another orange tile it does not change its
color. Sounds simply? So give it a try solving a dozen
different challenges... |
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UniPuzzle.com |
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The Correct Order Puzzle |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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It is a basic puzzle for this type
of sliding block puzzles in a 3x4 tray with nine square
blocks which make a 3x3 pattern, and a 1x2 "shuttle"
block. The goal is to restore the correct order of the
numbers on the square blocks... |
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G-Knights Exchange |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Eight chess knights, four white and
four black, placed on the special G-chessboard
should exchange their position. Counting a consecutive
series of leaps of a knight as one move, can you swap
the knights in exactly eleven moves?.. |
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The Origami Checkerboard Puzzle |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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The object is simple: Take a square
sheet of paper (colored at one side, and white on the
other), and performing just "book folds" get a checkered
pattern in the minimal number of single folds... |
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Two Oval Stools to a Table |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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This well-known, classic puzzle
with transformation of two oval stools into a circular
table top has long and interesting history. More than
180 years ago, in 1821, John Jackson posed in his book
Rational Amusement for Winter Evenings a puzzle
how to transform a circle into two hollow ovals... |
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Arco-Triangles |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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If you take three circles and
overlap them as shown in the diagram at right, you can
see that the whole shape is divided into seven
non-overlapping arco-triangles. An arco-triangle is a
shape formed with three arcs which are crossing in three
vertices of the arco-triangle... |
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Arthur Stone's Flexatube |
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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It is a great and unique puzzle
discovered in 1939. Martin Gardner writes that Arthur
Stone discovered the Flexatube somewhat accidentally
working on a flexagon, and was very surprised with this
discovery... |
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Strimko |
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The Grabarchuk Family |
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Strimko is the newest and
streamiest play with logic numbers created and developed
by the Grabarchuk Family. The rules of Strimko are
simple, the play is deep and fun, and the logic is as
unique as each Strimko challenge. The Strimko.com
website presents a set of three new Strimko puzzles each
week both in interactive and printable formats. Enjoy
the streamy logic of Strimko!... |
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Dice Sudoku |
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by
Peter Grabarchuk |
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Another version of a classic Sudoku
developed to play with special cards and "standard"
dice. You have a set of 6x6 challenge cards ranged from
Beginner to Expert; these card can be printed on paper,
cardboard, or cloth... |
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Cast Coaster |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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This is my first puzzle
manufactured by
Hanayama Toys Co., Ltd. in their famous and unique
Cast Puzzle series. The puzzle consists of only
three light, metal rings linked into a chain. The rings
are to be assembled into a nice pattern which uses
ornamental motif of the simplest, three-line braid
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Fish Crackers |
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by
Serhiy and
Peter Grabarchuk |
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This assembling puzzle is published
by
Gakken Co. Ltd. in their popular Embrain
Series, and manufactured by
Chronos Co. Ltd. The puzzle set consists of nine
funny tiles, and 48 challenges in 5 difficulty levels
are proposed to be solved on the pages of the supplied
booklet. Also, you can play some Flash interactive
challenges of the Fish Crackers at
Kids.Gakken
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Games |
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Loyd, Dudeney and... Galactic Takeover |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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It's amusing to see how things that
were interesting to puzzlers many decades ago look fresh
and attractive today. Of course, they were presented in
a somewhat different manner, but their core is still
appealing to their solvers... |
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Seven Puzzles for G4G7 |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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The
Gathering for Gardner (G4G) is the unique biennial
event founded in 1993 by Gardner fan and puzzle
collector, Tom Rodgers. Getting together in Atlanta, the
World's foremost mathematicians, puzzlers and magicians,
deeply influenced by Martin Gardner's work and life,
bring with them some writings related to the fields of
their interest and prepared specially to honor Martin
Gardner... |
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Puzzle Classics at G4G7 |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Classic puzzles make a substantial
and distinctive part within all puzzles available to
puzzlers in different forms, real and virtual. Many of
them are well-known, and still they hide a lot of
surprises which can lead puzzlers to new and improved
solutions, while puzzle creators can come up with new
challenges and variations... |
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Put-Together Puzzles
Matchstick Puzzles
Sliding Block Puzzles
Coin Puzzles
Chess Puzzles
Checkered Origami Patterns
Origami Strip Puzzles
Dissection Puzzles
Geometric Puzzles
Puzzle Mix
Puzzle
Favorites
Puzzle Hits
Puzzle Greetings
Projects
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