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...blog, the NY Times Crossword Drawings. It features absolutely magnificent photos of illustrated crossword puzzles. You should really check it out! ...
CrosScan puzzle combines features of crossword and word search puzzles, with the answers to crossword style clues to be found in a 15-square word search block. An average puzzle includes between 40 an
...on of Battleship was invented in Argentina in 1982 under the name Batalla Naval, with the first published puzzles appearing in 1982 in the Spanish magazine Humor & Juegos. Battleships was created ...
...rticle at politico.com caused a comical firestorm of non-controversy concerning whether the NYT Crossword Puzzle was sneakily supporting OBAMA by putting his name in the puzzle far more often than Joh...
...lve the daily quiz but maybe you are smarter.
Love to hear your experiences trying to solve quizzes and puzzles so if you have something to say, say it here ...
If you love sudoku as much as I do you might enjoy the wealth of possibilities that the Puzzle Arena offers.
There is a large directory of various puzzles that once you log in you can play for as
As fond as I may be of online quizzes I enjoy online puzzles even more so if you too really need to challenge yourself a little (or a lot) than I recommend working on a really challenging puzzles.
A
...ice color game you can check yourself with. Try it here.
Pretty soon I'll have a very sound quizzes and puzzles library here and some sort of a funny stuff map.
Couldn't resist this quiz which pro...
...we know today.
I'm starting to realize there are not enough quiz blogs out there. I could find some for puzzles such as Passion for Fuzzles that has lots of fun links for puzzles but the puzzles ar...
Eric has send to me this memory quiz and I just had to link it here.
The thing that is so special about the quiz is that it is not just fun but also functions to help people to bond with pets the
... is for many personality quizzes that I just can't have enough of: here.
Ans just so not to neglect the puzzles part here is word puzzle from Onigame blog, have fun.
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...LECTRIC, WATER AND GAS CONNECTED, IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO SO WITHOUT CROSSING ANY LINES?
If you are into puzzles and riddles you probably have heard this question by now but if you like to read a ful...
here is a link to a page of a very talented bloger that shows different kinds of puzzles.
Here is am example:
The process
Hope you enjoy his gallery.
Can anyone get the following abbreviations / ditloids? (eg. 26LitA = 26 Letters in the Alphabet)
O 2 C P 10 P i B 12 D i a G 206 M B i t B 2 H i a P o G 2 S o B i a S 60 M S T a T 65 A o R f a M 70
:blush:
My son has some puzzles- I have managed most but am struggling with these others. They are abbreviation puzzles.
For Example:
7=C on the E
7=Continents on the Earth
Could someone
... have a question about the infinite plane of resistors mentioned in the following FAQ entry:
http://rec-puzzles.org/new/sol.pl/physics/resistors
Given a grid of one ohm resistors, what is the resi...
I know this isn't the typical type post here, but I figure you guys might kno. I want to make a picture puzzle board for my parents and I was trying to think of how big to make it.
It needs to be bi
...r names a plant? Write down 4 odd digits that will add up to 19?
Cheers.
[I am not the author of this puzzle]...
(I don't know how difficult this puzzle is.)
Let a(m,k) =
1
...es anyone know where can I found them?
By the way, since I wish to order many different types of twisty puzzle cubes at the same time, I'm not going to look for them at some place like eBay, especia...
Coming across the old episode of 'The Magic School Bus,' where all the kids were sliding around a proverbeal frictionless surface... It brought me to ask:
Consider the following:
You are on Earth,
Hi, all! I need help completing the following puzzle from a magazine. What are the words and who is the mystery guest?
Directions: Here are ten partially completed words. You are to fill in the blan
Over the past few months the Toronto Transit Commission has run two or three contests where puzzles were posted on advertising panels and solvers could send their names in for a prize draw.
I don't
Here's a bit of a different puzzle. It may not have a solution.
Produce an algorithm that, given a list of correctly spelled English words (such as the enable1 list that can be downloaded from the N
This is a rebus puzzle. The arrangement of the letters/words pictorially is supposed to suggest a common phrase.
For example,
mind matter
Answer: Mind over matter
This one has me stumped:
Fo
I have just issued a new version of my Logic Puzzle Solver. Now you can save and load partially completed puzzles, and can turn on and off extended checking (probably only useful for puzzle compilers)
Here's a Puzzle From Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:
Dreaming of apples on a wall, And dreaming often, dear, I dreamed that, if I counted all,
...vertices of a cube, or as close to a cube as you can get with all the vertices on land. I recall seeing a puzzle posted here some years ago that asked for the construction of exactly that figure......
...nce that somebody is struggling with one of these at the moment) a few years ago I was shown an ingenious puzzle which was simply two wooden blocks which were seemingly impossible to pull apart.
The...
Who's around the corner?
The object of this puzzle is to identify a person by solving a clue that takes you 'around the corner' to a hint about that person.
Think of an inventor who invented a com
What is the most complicated 4 piece sliding block puzzle that fits in a 4x5 space?
I think I have a good candidate for that. I found it while writing a Math Games column on Sliding Block Puzzles.
Try to come up with a special sort of question:
The question has to be one which is designed to elicit a false answer, but which nevertheless allows the questioner to determine the true answer. The
Consider a typical NYTimes Sunday diagramless puzzle.
Is it possible to write a computer program will draw the puzzle DESIGN given the only 'inputs' are the NUMBERS of the clues? (i.e. it takes no s
This puzzle is more of a contest. Try and come up with the most famous and recognizable film tag line. My pitch is from the Ridley Scott / Sigourney Weaver movie Alien:
IN SPACE, NO-ONE CAN HEAR YOU
Okay, while attempting to wire up a new light fitting, I've had some rather bizarre results which I simply can't figure out. I've been designing plausible circuits in my head but none of them seem to
...rly 80's, my brother said that they came with a manual that was easy to understand.
It will be a funner puzzle when I have a logic to work with.
Matt Collins...
Hi all:
This is a bit off-topic for rec.puzzles, but over the years I've noticed this group is amazing in answering off-the-wall questions, and I seem to have struck out in rec.gardens and google...
Hi.
Here's a puzzle for you. The numbers
11744191923281353172742556581531980804279343045780380901680418304689456 67872928008443556443608502676940838861513446894995790013601143904693819 99970854767
Hi, Here are four interesting chess logic puzzles, that I hope you will like. By logic chess puzzles, I mean those that are not commonly known as 'studies', and which need a fairly strong classic ches
This is much easier than 'GCD=1 Grid-Path Puzzle #1'.
Consider an n-by-n grid where the integers 1 to n^2 are arranged such that m is in the ceiling(m/n) row and the (m-1)(mod n)+1 column.
Take th
I heard a guy on a talk show mentioning that even a state with only 8 people gets 3 full electoral votes and it got me thinking:
What's the smallest number of people that could pick the U.S. preside
Here is a bit of cool background about one of the new puzzles. This was posted at the Yahoo Group...
Does anyone know of a good place to buy reasonably complex burr puzzles, such as the Van Der Poel 18 piece puzzle?
I'm not really concerned as to whether they are constructed from wood, plastic, or
The boxes don't have to be 3x3; these puzzles can be composed based on any partition of the square into 9 sections of 9 cells each. Games magazine has printed a set of these puzzles from time to time
Found this on slashdot, and thought some of you may interested:
http://www.quirkle.com/puzzle/index.htm
which claims to be most difficult, simple puzzle (you have to read the page to make sense of
...ound by-hand a solution for n=4 that ends in a 23. (I leave finding a last-integer-is-23 solution for rec.puzzles and sci.math readers as a puzzle.)
Is it possible to end on even a lower integer wit...
Not really a puzzle (unless you want to explain why it works), though it seems that people who like puzzles often find these things interesting as well.
Enigma 1300 - Numeros triangulares New Scientist magazine, 31 July 2004. by Richard England.
This puzzle has appeared as an Enigma puzzle in both English and French versions, but incredibly it also
Hi, This is a question. I'm looking for a lateral word(s)/ sentence associated with the word Cracker. Any suggestion?
Thanks for listening
Kind Regards
Here is the only hint you will get for the puzzle below. A=Z T=S
Opobnf jt uif cftu qptufs pg qvaamf't.
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