December 01, 2004
Frustratingly Fun and Challenging Puzzles
My girlfriend stumbled across these and got me hooked on them. Now I shall pass this ever so procrastination-worthy material onto my fellow monkeys
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What on Gods' glorious Earth is that sound effect?
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Is that you, bobbo11?
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Me or Mav? I ain't bobbo, so you gogo somewhere else to ask.
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mexican: that was my first thought, too.
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Ah, bobbo's a puzzle buff. Here, go solve all of these evil things: EVIL!
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One of my favorite puzzle sites: http://www.janko.at/Raetsel/index.htm German, but Google can help out if you have trouble.
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>a href= "http://www.janko.at/Raetse/index.htm">The result will look like this. That's the formula for making a hyperlink, only you'll need to reverse the angle bracket at the beginning so it points left. After which, on Preview, it should read: The result will look like this.
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The bee's knees: < >
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I have been addicted to the Nurikabe and, to a lesser degree, Slither Link puzzles on puzzle.jp for a while (I first saw the former in an issue of GAMES Magazine). Nikoli, the company behind it, generally makes pretty cool pencil-and-paper puzzles. Conceptis Puzzles also has cool stuff, including the strangely addictive Link-a-Pix puzzles. You might know their Pic-a-Pix puzzles better as Mario's Picross, the TI-83+ reimplementation of which I played way too much in high school. Now if I could only get some work done every once in a while...
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pmdboi: yeah, I like those kinds of puzzles. There are more (hundreds) at the address above. I've done all those though, so if you find any others of a similar type... Also, I think there's a google annual puzzle contest with some pretty nice prizes-- worth checking out if you're good.