IPP Puzzle Design Competition Results: The goal of the IPP Puzzle Design Competition is to promote and recognize innovative new designs of mechanical puzzles. The first competition was at IPP21 (August 2001 in Tokyo).

Click for info. on: THE ANNUAL IPP PUZZLE DESIGN COMPETITION

NOBNET: Dear puzzle people, This is NOB in Tokyo. I am going to open my home page "NOBNET" through Internet this April. I will write on puzzles in this column. My studio is located at the heart of Tokyo, IIDABASHI, and NOBNET will be made in this studio, the crossroad of world puzzle information

Puzzle Craft by Stewart Coffin:  1992 Version is available for download in .pdf format: 3.4 M

Shufflebrain: - Original web games by Scott Kim

Nick Baxter Sliding Block Puzzles for on-line play M R

SLIDING BLOCK PUZZLE SOLVER-- Any sliding block puzzle can be designed and solved by this program. - FREE DOWNLOAD Software program from Taniguchi's Programs http://www1.usen.ne.jp/~yuki-ta/index_e.html

Matemagia.com - In Spanish: you will encounter many types of puzzles, tests of intelligence, math problems...Mostly created in flash.

Puzzles.com: This site is about Tricky and Clever Puzzles, Baffling and Perplexing Illusions, Unbelievable and Incredible Tricks, Fascinating and Cognitive Toys, and many-many other Puzzle related things, and everything around all these great Funny, Entertaining, Intellectual, and Educational Things.

www.otuzoyun.com: A puzzle site in Turkish consisting an optimization puzzle contest, puzzle solving tactics and a daily puzzle news section.

Java and Puzzle World by Hirofumi Fujiwara Once you have enjoyed this Puzzle World, you have a duty to introduce this Homepage to your friends. Thanks from Japan. http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/java/index-eng.html R Visit Hobbit's Room - Puzzles for your Palm Pilot. "We won "cool prize" in Java|Palm Programming Contest on Aug 6. "

Number Line: "Number Line was invented in Japan. At first it may seem difficult, but don't worry. I am going to give you many tips to help you enjoy it on this web site soon. How to Play Rules Connect dots with vertical / holizontal line and make one loop...." by Hirofumi Fujiwara (Japan) http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/java/index-eng.html

Games by Rodolfo Valeiras: These games are offered "gratuitamente" and are downloadable programs: juego del 15(game 15), de Sam Loyd, JOP-1, inspired by Rubic's Cube - also many pages of games, problems and puzzles including solution to Nob's No Off sliding block puzzle (scroll down past the spanish links to see Nob's solution)

Puzzler - A collection of sequential movement puzzles Ê Download version 2.03 NEW: The Pocket PC port of Puzzler is ready! Well, after months and months of work, I've finally finished the next version of Puzzler!Ê The upgrade is free for registered users, any registered user who would like a new registration key, please email me.Ê Thank you to all the beta testers who pointed out bugs left and right!Ê Due to the number of puzzles I am sure there are still some issues, be sure to let me know if you notice anything.
http://www.mud.ca/puzzler/puzzler.html R
Download this nifty program!

Chris Maslanka: is not 34 and is single. He was born in Nightingale Lane, Clapham, London and is of Polish extraction. He lives noisily but nearly containedly in a South Oxfordshire village with a watergun and 22 salad boxes. Mensa (of which he is not a member) have described him as 'a modern day Lewis Carroll'. Media psychologist Dr Aric Sigman has described his puzzles as 'the intelligence tests of the future'. http://www.puzzlemaster.co.uk/ Puzzle Books, Puzzle Panel Sydney Mind Olympics

Martin H. Watson's Puzzles Homepage - "Hello, this is my (very rough and ready) new Puzzles page. The old puzzles homepage is still here until the decorators finish the new place and move everything back in. Existing links to my old page will bring you here, temporarily. The new thing here is the opportunity to join my new mailing list for serious collectors of mechanical puzzles." Good links page with UK web/non-web puzzle suppliers info.

http://www.martin-brockmann.de/ WŠhlen Sie aus den folgenden Puzzle-Gattungen aus, aber nur die schwarz geschriebenen Gattungen sind mit Puzzles meiner Sammlung hinterlegt  R

Franco Rocco is an architect, a designer and a sculptor. In his initial works on architectural design, restoration projects and interior design he defined his original approach to the aesthetic of form, which he later defined as "La Via Geometrica". This approach, which recovers rules and methods of classical art, consists in the use of precise, mutually and modularly harmonic geometric proportions in the creation of his works. http://www.francorocco.com/Index1.htm R

Mathematical card tricks - Martin Gardner's 1956 classic Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (Dover) was the first book targeted at a mathematical audience to gather in one place some of the great mathematics-based card (and other magic) tricks: http://www.ams.org/new-in-math/cover/mulcahy1.html: R

Puzzles: In French. Qui dit récréations mathématiques pense inévitablement casse-tête et puzzles à manipuler. Ce site n'aborde, à quelques exceptions près, que les dérivés logiques, mathématisables de ces jeux. NEW!
http://www.fatrazie.com/

James Dalgety This Puzzle Museum is mainly about what have been variously called Practical Puzzles, Real Puzzles, "Chinese Puzzles", or Mechanical Puzzles. R
Puzzle Museum contains an interesting section with extensive text on puzzle classifications and definitions. There is a section dedicated to Berrocal puzzles as well.

Directory of Mechanical Puzzle Collectors This page lists links of collectors and shops that sell puzzles. The page is a joint project of Jerry Slocum, David Joyner and Mario Velucchi http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/joyner/slocum.html

Rob's Puzzle Pages Archive / Puzzel Pagina's Archief This page contains all kinds of links related to puzzle pages and is continuously extended. Unfortunately I do not have the time to check the links constantly, so some of them may no longer exist.
http://wwwtg.mp.tudelft.nl/~rob/puzzle_page.html

Burr Puzzles Site: A Burr Puzzle consists of at least three rods intersecting each other at right angles. The most famous and well known type is the six piece burr where three sets of two rods intersect each other.

Matti's puzzle page - You can see about 600 puzzles from my collection. On this first page I want to tell that the 8. FPP will be in 26.05. 2001 in Helsinki. If you want to see what puzzles look like, visit the exhibition pages.

A Puzzlebox Page" This site is dedicated to the unique craftsmanship of Puzzle boxes. Traditional puzzleboxes use hidden sliding panels that are moved sequentially in order to solve the puzzle and open the box. Others can use variations of panels, pins and/or magnets"

NOBNET "Dear puzzle people Mar-21-1996 This is NOB in Tokyo. I am going to open my home page "NOBNET" through Internet this April. I will write on puzzles in this column. My studio is located at the heart of Tokyo, IIDABASHI, and NOBNET will be made in this studio, the crossroad of world puzzle information..http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~nobnet
Join NOBNET Today!

JOHN FINCH'S PAGES - Puzzle Box Index http://www.theladz.demon.co.uk/home/puzzle-box-main-page.htm

Trevor Wood: INDIVIDUALLY HAND CRAFTED WOODEN MECHANICAL PUZZLES FOR THE DISCERNING COLLECTOR, WELCOME To my gallery of wooden mechanical puzzles $(Wish List Only)   M

JON'S PUZZLE BOXES & KNIVES Lots of puzzle boxes

Cube Lovers archives (Martin Schˆnert homepage)" I am also interested in Rubik's Cube, and related puzzles. I have converted the Cube Lovers archives to HTML (all 1947 articles between July 1980 and June 1996, the index is 205k)." http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Martin.Schoenert/Cube-

Exploring Math Through Puzzles Now You Can Do More Than Just Solve Them--You Can Make Them! Author Wei Zhang makes mathematics concepts tangible and intriguing with puzzles that can be made from commonly-available materials. http://www.keypress.com/product_info/puz_exp.html $$ M

John Rausch www.johnraush.com Puzzles.... Contains a directory of collectors and puzzle designers and much more. To learn more about puzzles this is the place to start; it is one of the most comprehensive puzzle sites on the net.

Puzzle Craft by Stewart Coffin:  1992 Version is available for download in .pdf format: 3.4 M

Barry.R.Clarke : Thank you for visiting my puzzles site. The puzzles on view here are entirely my own invention and have been selected from my column in The Daily Telegraph (UK) M