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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Word Scramble - Give It A Try!

Here's a fun puzzle to try out. It's a scrambled word. Your job is to rearrange the letters so they spell out a word. The nice part of this puzzle is, once you get two letters next to each other that are supposed to be next to each other, they combine into one single tile. Thus, you put the word together piecemeal until the whole word is complete!

Friday, February 09, 2007

Math Scramble - A New Math Game

There has been a new game added to The Problem Site. This game is called Math Scramble

Math Scramble is a simple (but occasionally quite difficult!) math puzzle, in which the player must place numbers into the blank spaces in an addition or multiplication problem. Tough to explain, but easy to figure out how it works once you see it!

Play Math Scramble!

If you would like to link to this new game from your own website, here's where you can get the linking code to put in your webpage: Link To Math Scramble

Finally, for your further entertainment, here is the latest puzzle added to the Tile Puzzler website. Enjoy!


Saturday, February 03, 2007

A New Kind Of Puzzle at Tile Puzzler

I thought readers might be interested to see that there's a new "special" puzzle over at the Tile Puzzler site. It's called the "Jeorge Puzzler". Here's a sample of a Jeorge Puzzler:



In a Jeorge puzzler, the areas of the puzzle pieces are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11, and they all fit together to make a 6x6 square. These are a little bit easier than the "Rickie Puzzlers", whose puzzle pieces have areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, and 8. In a "Jeorge Puzzler", because the two largest pieces are so big, there's typically just one or two ways they can fit together in the grid. Once you figure out how those biggest ones fit, everything else falls into place more easily!

Here are links to a few more "Jeorge Puzzlers":

Jeorge Puzzler #1
Jeorge Puzzler #2
Jeorge Puzzler #3
Jeorge Puzzler #4
Jeorge Puzzler #5

Hope you enjoy - and feel free to create your own "Jeorge Puzzlers", by using the "Build A Puzzle" link!