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The rec.puzzles archive
The rec.puzzles archive offers many classic mind-benders, categorized by subject area. Among the two dozen subject areas you'll find are analogies, cryptograms, language puzzles, logic puzzles, problems of probability, riddles, and trivia puzzles. You might want to preview this site, however. Students will love it, but some of the oldies are a little bloody. Three sample puzzles appear below.
6. Bear (a geometry puzzle): If a hunter goes out his front door, goes 50 miles south, then goes 50 miles west, shoots a bear, goes 50 miles north and ends up in front of his house, what color was the bear?
7. Logic Puzzle 29: Three people check into a hotel. They pay the manager $30 and go to their room. The manager finds out that the r... A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc.
Many puzzles stem from serious mathematical or logistical problems (see packing problems and tour puzzles). Others, like chess problems, are derived from board games. Others again have been devised for the sole purpose of being brain teasers.
The history of puzzles goes back many thousand years, Tangram being one of the earliest and still one of the most popular puzzles. In certain temples of Japan monks used to ... Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which represent real-life transport problems.
Description
As in shuffling puzzles, no piece is ever lost or added to the board. In contrast to shuffling puzzles, however, in transport puzzles all tokens have to follow certain routes given on the board; they cannot be lifted off the board and placed on faraway positions that have no visible connection to the from... Tiling puzzles use two-dimensional shapes that have to be assembled into a larger given shape without overlaps (and often without gaps). Some tiling puzzles ask you to dissect a given shape first and then rearrange the pieces into another shape. Other tiling puzzles ask you to dissect a given shape while fulfilling certain conditions. The two latter types of tiling puzzles are also called dissection puzzles.
Tiling puzzles may be made from wood, metal, cardboard, plastic or any other sheet-material. Many tili... Whereas the word 'solitaire game' in context with a game originally simply meant that a game is designed to be played by one player only, the game 'solitaire', especially peg solitaire is such an old game that the word 'solitaire' has become closely associated with this special game.
Games that are similar to peg solitaire are therefore called solitaire-type puzzles.
'Solitaire-type puzzles' typically consist of
a board with holes or indentations and
a set of pegs or marbles which we will call 'tokens'
At the start the tokens usually a... |
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