Sunday, May 30, 2010

Spinin iphone puzzle app

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http://www.klogia.com/spinin.html My puzzle friend from Israel Boaz Feldman designed Spinin with Alex Polonsky. Even the easy levels are di...

Puzzles & Romance Department

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9G7hCBHS8 We have long said that Oskar van Deventer is the smartest man on the planet. And now, Oskar shows...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Helicopter Cube

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Spent a fun hour taking apart the Helcopter Cube by Adam Cowan. The image above shows the component pieces. The puzzle can be jumbled - me...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

icut - new iphone app

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The Grabarchuk family keeps churning out interesting puzzles. icut is the latest. Download it NOW, while it's free. http://grabarchukp...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Martin Gardner has died

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Martin Gardner was a great puzzler. He wrote a column for Scientific American for many years about recreational mathematics. This Mechanica...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

LOST final prediction

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Locke must die! Who will kill him? Logically, it should be Jack. Recall: Jack pulled the trigger on him after Locke killed Naomi. But the...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Axis - Iphone puzzle app

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Dan Norcott is the brains behind Axis. Hard to describe. It's brand new. This Mechanical Puzzle Correspondent played the 1st 8 levels....
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Games Magazine current issue

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Read this Mechanical Puzzle Correspondent's article Stupid Toys....Compelling Fun in the August issue. Mysteriously - on sale now. Pag...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Lab Mice App

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480 people have downloaded Lab Mice puzzles.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Lab Mice Puzzles - iphone/ipod app!

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Please download the free version and give it an honest rating. Written responses will help make improvements for future versions. Thanks! ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Twisted Mind Puzzler

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Finally got my copy of this great sliding tile puzzle. The knob in the back lifts the 4 corner pieces and rotates them in place. Solved in ...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

LOST Apollo Candy Bar

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Throughout the series, we see various characters eat an Apollo Candy Bar. In the hatch, we see Kate, Hurley & Locke all eat them. Ben ...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Mindware - great puzzle company

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So many people have emailed me about puzzle companies. Yes, ThinkFun & Bits and Pieces are terrific. But don't forget Mindware! S...
Friday, April 30, 2010

Logix Arrows Iphone App puzzle

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Object: click on each star and turn them into arrows. Each arrow can point either up/down left/right or diagonally. If a cell has #5, that...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

LOST thoughts on Shannon & Ben & Jacob

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Shannon's father died suddenly - this set her on a course to travel the world. Theory: Jacob, is an evil SOB. He killed Shannon's f...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

LOST thoughts on Hugo & the smoke monster

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We've seen Ben lie many times. But Hugo? In the episode of Richard's origin, we see Hugo being a medium at the end of the show to ...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Kugellager puzzle

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This puzzle is similar to Tower of Hanoi, The Brain etc. The object is to slide the balls to the opposite end by shifting right and left the...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Fadi Cube update

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Scroll down a bit to see photos of the Fadi Cube. This Mechanical Puzzle Correspondent scrambled it - bravely. So far - unsolved. Corners...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Fun Math Problem

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Arlene is a serious runner. Every morning she runs one loop of her route. She runs downhill at 6 mph. She runs uphill at 2 mph. If Amy r...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Puzzle Blog in Canada

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Our puzzle friends of the north now can tune in to the puzzle scene with a homegrown puzzler: Nancey Vanstone! Follow her & stay appris...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Viva La France!!

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The Great Nation of France is definitely on the rise. First, the President had the good sense to marry the lovely Italian Carla Bruni. And...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

St8ts - new iphone puzzle app

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Jeff Widderich has created an interesting version of sudoku here.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Buttonia - iphone puzzle app

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Buttonia is a Lights-Out puzzle game. In a normal Lights-Out game, pressing one button changes the status of all the surrounding orthogonal ...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Fadi Cube

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The Fadi Cube from Oskar van Deventer has an interesting turning mechanism. Observe the photos. This may be the only 'twisty' puzzl...
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LOST - Kate & ,Mikhail

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Season 2: Kate, Locke & Sayid find the crazy Russian mercenary named Mikhail - he with the patch over his right eye. They fight, his hou...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

LOST - Prediction

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In the last episode, we are given a surprise - Desmond is back - seemingly without Penny. I have no idea why. However! We have not seen the...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Lock Nested Cube

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Bram Cohen is quickly designing a slew of interesting puzzles. 3 identical pieces. 8 moves to assemble. Made with yellow heart, blood wood,...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Bram's Cube

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This Mechanical Puzzle Correspondent is the proud owner of Bram's Cube - $440. The top and bottom resemble a normal 2x2x2 Rubik's Cu...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Magnetic Tower of Hanoi

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This Mechanical Puzzle Correspondent is at the Gathering 4 Gardner Convention. Uri Levy from Israel has created a new version of the timeles...
Monday, March 22, 2010

LOST -Inconsistency

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Season 2 Jack is performing surgery on Ben. As soon as Ben is knocked out with anesthesia, Danny (one of the Others who is guarding Sawyer ...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Akari - iphone puzzle app

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As iphone puzzle games go, this one costs a bit more: $2.99 for just 50 levels. Nevertheless, when viewed in the context of playing time - i...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Rocky Chiaro

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Rocky Chiaro has been making exquisite brass puzzles for about 20 years. Besides being clever & fun, they look great in a display case. ...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Rubik's Wood Cube

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It's been 30 years. Back to the future. The Rubik empire has produced a wooden version. Except for the stickers - it's wood insid...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

More about LOST

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In the most recent episode, John Locke announces that he's leaving the island (with others). Is he going to Los Angeles to meet up with ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Spin Doctor iphone puzzle app

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Seth Lipkin has created this admirable puzzle app. The object is to get the swinging white wand to a certain location and avoiding swinging...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Blockhouse iphone puzzle app

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Kory Heath has done an admirable job creating 100 tilt maze puzzles. Tilt mazes: the object moves all the way until it hits a wall. 99 cen...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Puzzles for the bathroom

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Many people read in the bathroom. Some do crossword puzzles. It is never recommended that one do mechanical puzzles in the bathroom - for ob...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Math Puzzles

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Ed Pegg's site: mathpuzzle.com is superb on so many levels. Bookmark it & enjoy!
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Fling! - Iphone puzzle

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I've written before about Fling! There are 25 levels. Having just completed level 18, the message says: By making it this far, you are...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Slime Lumia - iphone puzzle

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Slime Lumia is identical to the Nintendo DS puzzle game Prism. The object is to illuminate the funky aliens with the correct colored light....
Sunday, February 28, 2010

New LOST theory.....

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In the most recept episode: we discover that if the plane had never crashed....Jack has a teenage son & Hurley is the luckiest man alive...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Atsumari iphone puzzle

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Terrific puzzle game
Thursday, February 18, 2010

New York Puzzle Party Symposium Summary

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Thousands of puzzlers across the globe have inquired about attending the NYPPS. A brief summary: there were 5 presentations/lectures about c...

Tucker Jones Tavern Puzzles

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A big issue with puzzle collectors: how does one display them? The Tucker Jones group is offering a good deal on a handsome puzzle stand. h...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

New York Puzzle Party Symposium

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The New York Puzzle Party Symposium has been an annual event since 2002. It will happen this Saturday 2/13 9:30 – 4:30 Scheduled talks Ins...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Valentine's Day

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A classice Simpsons episode: Homer gives Marge a bowling ball for her birthday. Being so thoughtful, Homer decides to even have his name or ...
Monday, February 8, 2010

New York Puzzle Party Symposium

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The big event is fast approaching. People interested in attending - contact me for further details.
Friday, February 5, 2010

Mystical Colors

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http://loveyao.info/mysticalcolors The object of the puzzle is to move mirrors anywhere in the grid to illuminate the stars. Purple stars ne...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Rubk's TouchCube

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Look for the April 2010 issue of Games Magazine for my 2 page article called: Rubik Goes Electronic. It will be on the newsstands in a few ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

LOST Theory

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It appears that Jacob has inhabited the body of Sayid. So now the battle will pit Locke against Sayid.