Rob's Former Puzzle Pages Archive / Voormalig Puzzel Pagina's Archief
This page contains all kinds of (probably dead) links related to puzzle pages.
The contents of this page is still, except for this introduction, the same as at its previous location but is no longer maintained.
Most of the links here were once or are still in my bookmark list
or were picked up from messages in the Rec.puzzles Newsgroup
If you are looker for help you solve puzzles and/or riddles: Since most of
them are oldies anyway, their answers can often be found in the FAQ from
the Rec.puzzles Newsgroup, or, if not, the questions
will get far more attention over there.
Mechanical: burrs, wire, Rubik etc.
General:
Puzzle World by John Rausch !
Museum of Puzzles & Puzzling Objects by James Dalgety
Bibliography of mechanical puzzle books by Mike Hatalski
The Directory of Mechanical Puzzle Collectors
Polyform:
Soma by Thorleif
Polyominoes by Jan Kok
PUZZLE FUN & UNSOLVED PROBLEM
Hexiamond homepage
Disections
Tantrix: puzzle or game ? by Howard Ship
Try it here
Some free computer jigsaw puzzles
Rubik like:
Mag's Cube solution or
here ?
maybe via new location ?
Apparently the official Rubik site.
Bagley's MS Windows implementations of a lot of mechanical Rubik
like puzzles or the X version (xpuzzles-5.4.3.tgz ?)
Meffert's Puzzles
Rubik's Cube theory by Alan Hensel
pyramix
Speed cubing and Pretty patterns
Rubik's data
Rubik Gallery
Jared Weinberger's collection
of Sliding Block Puzzles (Win95 only)
Specialised:
The page for links to Puzzle boxes (and not related to the film hellraiser)
MOre puzzle boxes here by John Finch
Lights out page
The Burr puzzles site
Tom Longtin's page contains many rendered pictures
of 3D models including some (hard ?) to build 3D
puzzle prototypes
Dirk Laureyssens Wirrel Warrel Puzzel/Happy Cube
A list of sites by Christian
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To Buy: mainly mechanical, some jigsaw (commercial,mailorder)
[Standard Disclaimer with regard to liability etc....]
Large variety
Beautifully crafted wooden and therefore expensive puzzles at IP: interlocking puzzles
Besides a nice catalog, the puzzles alone are worth a visit to Bits-and-Pieces
Mostly polyform based puzzles and games at Kadon Enterprises
Puzzle-Shop (in Germany)
Binary Arts (The Smart Toy People) (you can find lots of these in toyshops)
To Help Minds Grow (tm) (closed down, apart from customer support)
Puzzletts: Puzzles and Brainteasers
(It used to be very good, but I have seen several complaints. Note that
some time ago delivery did take quite long)
Some original designs and also many old favourites by Mr Puzzle in Australia even with some
limited edition puzzles.
Puzzles Downunder by Greg White.
Only in wood
Trevor Wood
Kamei's karakuri
Puzzles from Japan: Izumiya
(set View - Encoding or whatever to Japanese Shift-JIS)(I do not know whether they do international orders)
Amongst other puzzles also some puzzleboxes at Cleverwood Crafts Woodworks
More puzzleboxes here
The page for links to Puzzle boxes (and not related to the film hellraiser)
Build your own puzzlebox ?
Wire and string
Unique wire designs by Rick Irby
Livewire Puzzles
The puzzle and craft factory
Tavern Puzzles from Tucker-Jones House Inc.
Parlor Puzzles
Architest nail puzzles
Timber Novelty
Rubik like:
HockeyPuck puzzle
Tiger Electronics, Inc. (the makers of lights out)
Jigsaws, shape matching, polyform
Pentaplex - puzzles for the puzzle minded (penrose tiling puzzles)
Imagination Project Shape matching puzzles
Cut your way through the Jigsaw Jungle in Canada (one with a large variety)
also a Jigsaw newsletter
Handsawn jigsaws by Mark Gaetano Cappitella or MGC's Custom Made Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles
Harry Fearnley's links to the
Kadon Enterprises 1995-1996 Catalogue (expensive,mostly polyform, puzzles)
Jig-saw puzzles at Shop Around the Clock ?
Wrebbit's 3D Jigsaw Puzzles
Jigsaws by White Mountain Puzzles
3D Checkerboard puzzle
Books on Supertangrams ?
Pentominoes and other wooden puzzles, also pentominoes problems cdrom by Steve Strickland
The Nemmelgeb Murr Import Shop
is the only Earth outlet for wooden puzzles (mostly polyforms) and puzzle
artifacts from the galaxy of Nemmelgeb Murr. Also look for puzzle contests
and articles on puzzle theory.
21stcenturygames and jigsaws.
More computer playable Jigsaw
General
Maybe more sites can by found at Mike Naylor's list
Yahoo!
- Business and Economy:Companies:Games:Puzzles
Yahoo!
- Business and Economy:Companies:Toys
Yahoo!
- Business and Economy:Companies:Games
Other:
Philos GmbH \& Co. KG: wooden games and puzzles wholesale and also packaging
Emmett's Java puzzles, also some hand crafted puzzles for sale.
Does "Put 6 identical U-shaped pieces together to form a Space Cube" sound easy ?
Well, I could manage that, but then try to interlink 3 of those Space Cubes.
You'll need all your dexterity to build these irritating Space Cubes
(Ok I did get a free set for this review, but I managed to do the Blob !).
The Worldwide Games mail order
World Game Review
Keypress: Wei and Stan's Puzzle Selections
Capito
CalmPlex
mrpuzzle
Escape from Alcatraz puzzle
Mozaika puzzle ball
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Riddles, Mathematical etc.
Go find the Southwest Missouri State University Problem Corner
Mathpuzzle
Bill's Web Game Area
Ken Duisenberg
Strawberry Macaw's Puzzle Page
Mario Velucchi's or
Mario Velucchi's homepage
Interactive web games and puzzles
Welcome to WormWorld
Whuang's Games & Puzzles-link
Where did the puzzles go ?
Arlet's rec.puzzles archive
Zeno's puzzles
Some simple algebra puzzles
Mathsoft Math puzzle page
List of Journals containing problem columns
The Puzzle of the Week" site
The Ultimate Puzzle Site and in
dutch
A number of playable puzzles links
Garriga's WWWorld ... Beyond the Black Stump
Imagiware
The Puzzle Depot
Play4Prizes
Puzzle of the Week site
Buy IT OnLine Contest
The Sphinx
AIMS Puzzle Corner - a new puzzle every month
Brain Teasers
- three new puzzles each Wednesday
Puzzle Ring
- a "web ring" devoted to puzzles, cryptograms, word games, mazes, logic problems
The
Little Math Puzzle
- varying difficulty, new puzzle each weekend
Weekly free puzzle,monthly price-puzzle.
(Only puzzles in Dutch)
The Web Wizard's Math Challenge.
The "Official" Page of Puzzles
home of Enchanted Mind.
Ken's Puzzle site
The Fun and Challenging Mystery Website (a online detective `book' ?)
Puzzle Contest
SMSU Problem Corner and the
SMSU High School Problem Page.
Geometry Forum-Problem of the Week
Once upon a time there were several problems with the chernobyl eagles
as main characters. Recently I have seen a charming
WWW page with those multy-head pets, which includes a link to the original author.
Cool Puzzles
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Mazes
The Maze Man's Puzzling Computer Services:
mazeman or
mazeman or
index
The web's coolest virtual maze ?
Mazes by ???
Maze server by Donald Dodson
Doolhoven van Thomas W. de Boer (in dutch)
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Java Implementations
Why archive them myself when it is already being done by:
The Gamelan Java Archive
Some of my favourites:
Sliding
Piece Puzzles by Hirofumi Fujiwara
Emmett Henderson's collection of various
puzzles
Dropsession
puzzle game by Erwin Bonsma (or here ?)
Text puzzles by Andrei Grigoriev
Not in java but using Frames puzzles
The burr puzzles site or this one
Here are some often asked questions and their answers about the site
above:
(straigth from the author)
Q: Can I run the java applet on my local machine?
A: With this new site you can. Here is how:
0) create a local directory where you can put all the files.
1) go to the build your own burrs page
(http://www.research.ibm.com/BurrPuzzles/BuildPage.html)
- save this page (BuildPage.html) from your broser to disk
- save the background picture and logo used in this page
(if you want to see them, otherwise you can edit the page)
2) goto, either:
a) - http://www.research.ibm.com/BurrPuzzles/puzzle.zip
b) or, if you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer:
- http://www.research.ibm.com/BurrPuzzles/puzzle.cab
3) save also this page/file to disk
3) unzip this last file to get all the standard class files
3) point your browser to your local BuildPage.html file.
Q: Is the source code to this applet available
A: Unfortunately no. The code is the property of IBM and not available at this time.
If I get all the legal clearances I might make it available sometime in the future.
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Miscellaneous.
mechanical puzzles, paradoxes, optical illusions
IBM patent server
Slocum puzzle foundation
Puzzle Archive from rec.puzzles
Robot can play with the Cube
What to do with lot's of Rubik's cubes and spare time
More such designs and some cube solution
information
Cube Records
Cryptogram Corner by James A. Parsly
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More about games rather than about puzzles
Agafonov's Draughts/Checkers Club
Pente (software)
Nine Men's Morris and 15 puzzle document
Strategic games (rules,faq,software)
The Object Orientation Game (shareware)
The American Game Collectors Association
Cool Puzzles
Jigsaw puzzle software
Chess variants
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Once recently found
I should probably rename this category, as I now usually add entries directly
to the appropriate categories.
Panthera's Puzzle Contest
Puzzle University
amUous Mind Puzzles (maintained by David S McMeans)
Bob Hart's puzzles
Claudio Mauceri
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Every week we have a new puzzle and a chance to win a cool prize.
Click on the Brain Bender of the Week icon
This is worth
to look at (putnam exams and about 400 math problems)
the monthly waidsoft trivia page.
A WWW page that is devoted to electronics oriented puzzles and brain teasers.
Come visit
Wm. Spear Design's Puzzle page
Zoma's Land O"Logic
A WWW labyrinth of European languages
But what is here
Win a free Maine Antique Digest mug contest
Java puzzles at Puzzlers by Don
Follow the Toys & Hobbies link to the
U.S.Toy Store Directory by Pause Magazine
Puzzles, riddles, trivia and FREE prizes by duJour
A online murder mystery in Cliffton, Ohio
A division and other problems
Cube Move Tester in Java by Justin
the Grey Labyrinth for graphical puzzles ?
The Electric Origami Shop
Dept.of Mechanical Engineering, puzzles
Puzzles
Puzzler (japanese puzzle magazine)
Recreational Mathematics
GREEN EGGS REPORT for news:rec.puzzles
Domain of the Cube
Mathematical Recreations
HockeyPuck puzzle solution ?
Geometry Forum puzzles
Bitz Puzzles
Exploring Math Through Puzzles
Math problems
Mike Naylor
Find the Philosopher's Stone by Graeme Whittle
More JakeWeb Challenges
Scientific puzzle page
Omnibus puzzle
Human Calculator:
division and
multiplication
BEATCALC
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Newsgroups and Mailing lists
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List of lists
Lislis is a electronic text that include the notice of 42 mailing lists
for puzzles, recreational mathematics, board and strategic games, word
games and another perplexing things.
You can email the
listkeeper
who will send you the text in a mail message; or take a look at
Lislis
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NOBNET
If you do not know who Nob is then you probably do not want to go to
NOBNET
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Rec.puzzles Newsgroup
From the weekly FAQ:
The entire rec.puzzle-archive is accessible via anonymous FTP, from
any site which
maintains archives of the newsgroups news.answers or rec.answers. One
such site is
rtfm.mit.edu, where the archive is in
the directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers/puzzles/archive.
The file part01 contains the index. The remaining files contain
alternating
problem text and solution text for all the puzzles.
Some other FTP sites are:
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/puzzles/archive
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/puzzles/archive
Compressed plain text.
ftp://ftp.cis.ksu.edu/pub/mirrors/news.answers/pu
zzles/archive
Compressed plain text.
ftp://gaia.ucs.orst.edu
/pub/mirrors/rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/puzzles/archive
WEB
http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/puzzles.html
Linked to the gopher server immediately above.
http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/index.html
Unknown date; partially HTMLized.
http://xraysgi.ims.uconn.edu:8080
By keyword as well as subject.
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The Cube-Lovers mailing list
The traffic on Cube-Lovers is highly variable. We will sometimes go for
several months with no traffic at all. Other times there will be five
messages a day for a week. So don't expect to receive any mail anytime
soon, but don't be scared off if this greeting message is immediately
followed by a small flurry of mail. You should also expect a fair
amount of mathematically sophisticated discussion -- but don't worry
if you're not a professional group theorist, we also talk about things
like how to lubricate your cube,
how to make pretty patterns, and where to buy cubes and related puzzles.
REMEMBER: Our addresses are Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU
for submissions and Cube-Lovers-Request@AI.MIT.EDU
for administrivia. Save this message somewhere so you don't forget about
Cube-Lovers-Request. If you ever want to be -removed- from Cube-Lovers,
your request should be sent to Cube-Lovers-Request. If you forget, and
send mail concerning your subscription to the entire list, you should
expect to be chastised -- that mistake is considered particularly
annoying by Internet old-timers. Please note that Cube-Lovers-Request
is processed by a human being, not a computer program (such as LISTSERV
or Majordomo). If your request is not instantly processed, it is because
I don't spend my entire life reading my electronic mail. I do know how to
interpret many of the commands typically sent to such programs, but I
would prefer it if instead you can remember to address me in complete
sentences. If you are interested in the archives of the Cube-Lovers
mailing list: Using FTP, connect to FTP.AI.MIT.EDU, login as "anonymous"
(any password), and in the directory "pub/cube-lovers" you will find at
least the twenty three (compressed) files "cube-mail-0.gz" through
"cube-mail-22.gz". In addition, the file "recent-mail" contains a copy
of the currently active section of the mail archive. (Unfortunately,
due to the way mail works here at the AI Lab, it is not possible to have
new mail accumulate directly into this file, so there may be some delay
before a new message arrives here.) There is also a sub-directory,
"contrib", that contains software and other goodies contributed by our
readers. Finally, the file "README" contains the information you are
currently reading. On the World Wide Web you can access this archive
using the URL ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/cube-lovers
You can also find an indexed database of the Cube-Lovers mail
archives at:
http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de:8000/~mschoene/Cube-Lovers/(connection failed once)
Thanks to Alan Bawden.
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For suggestions, questions and other remarks, you could try emailing me, the old email address here hasn't worked in a long time.
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