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Puzzles
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Archimedes' Laboratory 
 Inspired by the work methods of scientist Archimedes, this online companion to the print magazine of the same name provides a virtual lab of geometric puzzles to make and solve, games, mazes, and optical illusions. Appropriate for children and adults. Searchable. Available in English, Italian, and French. http://www.archimedes-lab.org/indexB.html Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mathematics, Mysteries and More Last updated Jun 24, 2003 Brain Food: Puzzles For the Brain To Gnaw On
Hundreds of word games, logic problems, riddles, and other brain teasers may be found in this "devious collection of puzzles." http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/ Topics: English Language, Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Jan 9, 2002 Crossword Puzzle Solver
Just the thing when you're stuck on a word. Enter the number of letters and the letters that you do know and receive a list of possible words. Note: "this engine finds only single English words, not phrases, names, or proper nouns ... and it only supports words up to 10 letters long." http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/crossword.html Topics: Games & Puzzles, Hobbies, Mysteries and More Last updated Jul 25, 2005 Crossword Solver
Search for words starting with, containing, or ending with a string of letters. Or enter the letters you know in their respective squares of a form, tell the search engine how many letters are in the word and it will give you a list of words that fit. http://www.allwords.com/solver.php?v=508177707 Topics: Games & Puzzles, Hobbies, Mysteries and More Last updated Jul 13, 2002 Crosswords
Hundreds of links to crossword puzzles, articles, crossword software packages, solving tools, anagram generators, and foreign language puzzles. Maintained by cruciverbalist, former New York Times Trivia Quiz Trivia Master, and librarian, Ray Hamel. http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/cp.html Topics: Games & Puzzles, Hobbies, Mysteries and More Last updated Oct 26, 2005 Daily Sudoku
The object of this puzzle (popular in Japan, and spreading through the UK and the U.S.) is "to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once." The website includes a daily puzzle, a puzzle archive (back to January 2005), a FAQ, a message board, and a daily puzzle for children. From the author of a sudoku puzzle book. http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk/sudoku/index.shtml Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Nov 1, 2005 Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
A wonderland of puzzles and problems presented by a scholar in love with the language of mathematics. Hundreds of games and brain teasers illustrate algebraic and geometric theories. Links included in the extensive glossary provide examples of usage. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Dec 19, 2005 International High IQ Society
Puzzles and IQ tests from this group that welcomes "people from all walks of life who have an IQ in the top five percent of the population and who want to be part of our global community" on the Internet. http://www.highiqsociety.org/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More, Social Science Last updated Jan 8, 2003 JigZone
Jigsaw puzzles online - over 800 pictures of animals, art and architecture, holidays, people and lifestyle, landscapes and cities, plants and food, sports and recreation, transportation, travel and culture, and world flags, with a choice of puzzle cuts varying in difficulty from 6 easy pieces to 247 nearly impossible pieces. A "solve" button is available to finish the puzzle or just put together the next few pieces. http://www.jigzone.com/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Nov 5, 2001 OneAcross
A site for crossword puzzle enthusiasts, featuring "Crossword Clue Search," which analyzes clues for patterns and suggests words and is based on "Proverb (The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist)," a computer-based puzzle-solver created by Duke University. Other features include links to crossword sites, an anagram finder, and cryptograms. If "Proverb" fails you, try the "OneAcross Puzzle Forum," where you can seek assistance from other "puzzled" human hobbyists. http://oneacross.com/ Topics: English Language, Games & Puzzles, Hobbies, Mysteries and More Last updated May 1, 2005 Puzz.com
A collection of "IQ tests, puzzles, trivia, games and contests for entertainment and education." http://www.puzz.com/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Feb 26, 2005 Puzzability: Puzzle Sampler
Sample puzzles for adults and children, including crosswords, hangman-style games, and other word and picture games. From a puzzle writing company founded by three former editors of Games magazine. http://www.puzzability.com/sampler/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Apr 23, 2006 Puzzlemaker
"A puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents." Create your own cryptograms, mazes, word search, math squares, crossword (criss-cross) puzzles, and more at this entertaining site for all ages. From Discovery School, which provides "innovative teaching materials for teachers." http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Nov 30, 2007 Rubik's Cube Online
Erno Rubik patented this intriguing, colorful, cubic puzzle in 1974. Rubik was a lecturer in interior design and taught architecture in Budapest, Hungary, with a "passionate interest" in geometry. Site includes a history of the cube, cube facts (there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations), a FAQ, information on getting your cube repaired, links, etc. Lost your cube? You can play online. http://www.rubiks.com/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Jul 18, 2005 Scrambled Word / Crossword Puzzle Solver
Automatically solve scrambled words and get hints for crosswords based on letters. From a hobbyist. http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/solveit.html Topics: English Language, Games & Puzzles, Hobbies, Mysteries and More Last updated Jun 6, 2007 Sudoku Classic
Archive of sudoku puzzles, published six days a week, ranging from easy to difficult. Sudoku (a puzzle popular in Japan, and now gaining popularity in the U.K. and the U.S.) has one rule, "place the numbers from 1 to 9 in each row, in each column and each 3x3 box." From the Guardian Unlimited, the online companion to the British newspaper The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/sudoku Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Sudoku for Kids
The object of sudoku "is to fill in the digits from 1 to 9 so that it appears only once in each column, row, and small three by three square." This site for children provides a booklet "How To Do Sudoku Puzzles" (written for children, but also useful for adult beginners), printable sample puzzles in varying levels of difficulty, a weekly (free) email subscription, and related material. Note: Includes some commercial content. http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sudoku_for_kids.htm Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Nov 22, 2005 Web Sudoku
"The rules of Sudoku are simple. Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square." This site features billions of interactive games with easy, medium, hard, and evil levels of difficulty (users can receive hints). The site also supplies puzzles for newspapers, magazines, and other media for a fee. http://www.websudoku.com Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Nov 29, 2005 [NPR] Sunday Puzzle
This site from National Public Radio (NPR) presents the weekly on-air quiz from The New York Times Crossword Puzzle editor and Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz. Includes instructions for submitting entries, the past month's challenges and answers, an archive of past puzzles, and for you Will Shortz groupies, his mug shot. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4473090 Topics: English Language, Games & Puzzles, Mysteries and More Last updated Sep 14, 2009 |
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