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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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Square & Division
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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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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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Puzzles.COM |
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Serpentine Lines
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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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One Bigger Another
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by
Peter Grabarchuk |
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Six coins form two right isosceles
triangles; a smaller one is silver while a bigger is
gold. Rearrange coins into another two right isosceles
triangles so that now the three silver coins make a
bigger triangle, while the three gold coins make a
smaller one... |
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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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Puzzles.COM |
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Break-in-Two
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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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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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Parted Cube
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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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Fish Crackers |
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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
(here)... |
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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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Modern Classic Puzzles
(Mensa) by Peter Grabarchuk. |
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Modern Classic Puzzles (Mensa) |
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Peter Grabarchuk |
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This is a new puzzle collection
created by an art director at the
Puzzles.COM website,
and published by
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. as a
Mensa Official Puzzle Book. The date of its official
release is October 7, 2008. The book contains more than
200 original brainbusters--visual, math, tangram-like,
matchstick, and of many other types--arranged from
easiest to hardest. All you need for your puzzle
adventure are a pencil, an eraser, patience, and your
imagination!... |
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more
of the Grabarchuks' Books > |
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Puzzling iPhone |
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One of the newest
trends in the Puzzle World is that a huge number of
puzzles of all possible kinds are now adapting to modern
hand-helds, the iPhone and the iPod Touch. This blog
is devoted to searching and selecting from numerous
iPhone puzzles just those which deserve to be treated
as really clever and quality projects. You can read
there excellent reviews, and undoubtedly, it's a
wonderful source to every true puzzler and puzzle
developer! |
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Puzzle-In Website |
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Naoyuki Iwase's
website which is not only a great puzzle shop selling
a big number of various puzzles from all over the
World, but also a great source full of different
puzzle information. In the
Leaf Forest Diary
you can find interesting notes about new and old
puzzles and books, puzzle news and comments. |
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website in English*
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Leaf Forest Diary in English*
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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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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
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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Math Is Fun |
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Rod Pierce's
website is devoted to the popularization of maths using the
funniest tools like puzzles and games. It covers
different math-related and well illustrated topics
aimed at basic math skills: Numbers, Geometry,
Algebra, Data, Money, Measurement, Puzzles, and
Quizzes. Also, it has the Illustrated Math Dictionary
and Teacher's pages, and proposes hundreds of
printable Worksheets to test your math skills. |
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Iwahiro's Puzzles |
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Hirokazu Iwasawa
(Iwahiro)'s website introduces his puzzle designs in
the Iwahiro's Puzzles series. Every Iwahiro's Puzzle
has a clever and unusual idea behind it, and so some
of them are prize winners of the prestigious
Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition
(est. 2001): Rectangular Jam got the
Honorable Mention
in July, 2005 in Helsinki, Finland, at IPP25;
The ODD Puzzle
became the
Puzzle of the Year
of that Competition in August, 2008 in Prague, Czech
Republic, at IPP28. |
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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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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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more Sudoku puzzles > |
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Last Updated:
May 8, 2009 |
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• Square & Division •
• The Marbles & Rows Puzzle •
• Serpentine Lines •
• One Bigger Another •
• The Fish •
• Break-in-Two •
• Cut the Q •
• Parted Cube •
• Twins • |
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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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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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