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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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The Christmas-tree Ornaments
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Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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The Christmas-tree consists of the
nine one-sided corners with different ornaments. There
are three exactly identical corners which have the same
set of ornaments placed identically on each of them. Can
you find these three identical corners?... |
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The Big, Big, Big Book
of Brainteasers by The Grabarchuk Family. |
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The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers |
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by
The Grabarchuk Family |
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It's our newest printed puzzle book
officially released by
Puzzlewright / Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. on
September 6, 2011. This is a colorful collection of our
567 puzzles in a wide variety of puzzle types, designed
to appeal to all levels of puzzlers, from the novice to
the experienced solver. None of the puzzles requires any
special knowledge except for the basics of arithmetic,
geometry, and algebra. The only things youll really
need to fully enjoy the book are a can-do attitude,
logical reasoning, and creative thinking... |
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The Tangramion |
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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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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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Coin Triangle |
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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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Hexaframes |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk, Jr. |
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Four equal regular hexagons are
transparent with a thin outline, and they can form
different patterns when overlapped. The challenge is to
form the maximal number of additional regular hexagons.
What can be your best result?.. |
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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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Easy Flat Color Cube |
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by
Peter Grabarchuk |
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Eight flat tiles with images of 3D
colored unit cubes can be assembled so that they form a
flat shape looking like a 2x2x2 cube. Two different
challenges are proposed to baffle you with this
seemingly simple assembling puzzle... |
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Two Dots |
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by
Serhiy Grabarchuk |
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Seven tiles of this new sliding
block puzzle are made as stylized letters and are placed
within a 2 x 4 tray so that they spell: TWO DOTS. Your
holiday challenge is to slide the tiles within the tray
so that to swap the Blue and Orange Dots and still have
the tiles spelling TWO DOTS. How many moves will you
need to accomplish the puzzle?... |
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Four Color Rings |
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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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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 recently for
iPad. With over 1000 original challenges presented in
nine 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 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 for PC/Mac |
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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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Aha!: Aha! Insight and
Aha! Gotcha by Martin Gardner. |
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Aha!: Aha! Insight and Aha! Gotcha |
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by
Martin Gardners |
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Among many dozens of brilliant and
extremely popular books by Martin Gardner, the two
"Aha!" collections are quite outstanding, as they are
devoted entirely to "non-standard" challenges, or
challenges with "Aha!" effect. These are challenges
which seem to be difficult of even impossible to solve,
but have simple and clear (and often surprising) answers
and solutions... |
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Martin Gardner's Mathematical
Games (CD-ROM) by Martin Gardner. |
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Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games: The Entire
Collection of His Scientific American Columns (CD-ROM) |
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Martin Gardners |
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This CD is quite remarkable in many
respects, and one of them is that nowadays it is the
most compact (in every senses) compendium in the field
of the recreational mathematics. Even more than that, it
is the entire collection of Martin Gardner's
Mathematical Games columns run in
Scientific American from 1957 to 1982... |
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The 15 Puzzle Book
by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld. |
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The 15 Puzzle Book |
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Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld |
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The true history of The 15 Puzzle
is revealed in this book. The authors give a
comprehensive picture of how this puzzle became popular,
driving the whole World crazy, and show "...how
America's greatest puzzle designer, Sam Loyd, fooled
everyone for 115 years."... |
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Puzzlers' Tribute published by A K Peters, Ltd. |
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Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind |
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published by
A K Peters, Ltd. |
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This second tribute collection to
Martin Gardner is based on the three successive
Gatherings for Gardner (G4G2-G4G4) held in Atlanta
in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively. Three main
elements of each Gathering for Gardner -- Math, Puzzles,
and Magic -- are fully presented in this colorful
compendium created by the outstanding gathering of
authors... |
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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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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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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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Jerry Slocum Puzzles Old and New |
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This is a personal
website of Jerry Slocum, whose collection of 30,000
puzzles and 4,000 puzzle-related books is one of the
biggest of its kind. Visiting the website you can
learn about the World of Mechanical Puzzles, Slocum
Puzzle Foundation, and history of International Puzzle
Parties. Also, you can see there Jerry Slocum's puzzle
books, articles, and even some "do-it-yourself"
puzzles. |
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TerryStickels.com |
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Everybody, who has
ever solved Terry Stickels' extremely popular Frame
Games or Stikelers, will always remember their perfect
taste and fun, and definitely will want see more and
more of them. At his personal website you can find and
solve dozens of these wonderful mind exercises, and
learn more about Terry Stickels, his clever and fun
books, and admirable achievements. |
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Greg Frederickson's Website |
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Professor of
Computer Sciences Greg Frederickson is the World's
leading authority in an old theme of mathematics --
geometric dissections. His website is fully devoted to
this kind of puzzles, and describes many old and
modern achievements in this field including different
theories, interesting facts, and historical
background, as well as Greg's unique books on the
subject. |
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Aha! Puzzles |
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Lloyd King's
website proposes a lot of interesting things which can
help you to learn how to "think outside the box."
Lloyd is the author of several outstanding books on
the matter, and walking through his website you will
find many impressive things leading you into the
wonderful Aha! Puzzles World, and bringing to you many
pleasant "Aha" moments. |
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Kohfuh's Lab |
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Kohfuh Satoh's
website contains an incredible collection of his own
clever puzzles of different types, great articles on
different puzzle topics, perfect book reviews, and
selected puzzle links. The motto of Kohfuh's Lab is:
"Puzzle, one of the most enjoyable things on earth!" I
quite agree with this. |
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The VIN&CO Website |
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Wooden puzzles
which are thoroughly designed and crafted by
Vแclav Obํvač
are so
perfect that they can be described as a Harmony in
Wood. Just browse through all of his puzzle creations
(more than 170 at the moment!) and you will hear that
Harmony. |
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Click Mazes - Interactive Puzzles and Mazes |
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Andrea Gilbert's
website with a wonderful collection of unique
interactive puzzles and mazes, and a few other things
besides. All you will need to find you way through is
your mouse. Just make the very FIRST click... |
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The British Origami Society |
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It is one of the
most remarkable group devoted to Origami, an ancient
art of paper-folding. More than 700 faithful Origami
lovers all over the World are members of this group.
Their achievements are published in a bi-monthly
magazine.
The 40th Anniversary
of the founding of
the British Origami Society will be held in Cambridge,
September 6-9, 2007. |
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Featured Collections |
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Previous Features |
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December 24, 2011 |
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The Christmas-tree
Ornaments
Tangramion
Dicey Multiplication
Coin Triangle
Hexaframes
The Marbles & Rows Puzzle
Easy Flat Color Cube
Two Dots
Four Color Rings |
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LetsTans for the iPhone/iPod
touch and iPad
Strimko for the iPhone/iPod touch
Strimko for PC/Mac |
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The Big, Big, Big Book of
Brainteasers
Aha!: Aha! Insight and
Aha! Gotcha
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection
of His Scientific American Columns (CD-ROM)
The 15 Puzzle Book
Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind
Puzzles 101: A Puzzlemaster's Challenge
Nuevos Solitarios Clasicos (New Classic Solitaires) |
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Our Puzzle on NPR
Kadon Enterprises, Inc.
Jerry Slocum Puzzles Old
and New
TerryStickels.com
Greg Frederickson's Website
Aha! Puzzles
Kohfuh's Lab
The VIN&CO Website
Click Mazes - Interactive Puzzles and Mazes
The British Origami Society |
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Celebration of Mind II |
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LetsTans for the
iPhone/iPod touch
by The Grabarchuk Family and Mehmet Murat Sevim
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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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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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GAMESฎ 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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