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NEWS : Barry R. Clarke
has two new books of original puzzles available: Brain
Busters, published by Dover; and Challenging
Logic Puzzles, a Mensa book published by Sterling. For on-line tests,
surfers can try the The
Perseus Test made in Flash. It has 10 questions and the solution
to one problem is used in the address bar to call forth the next puzzle.
Anyone who manages to solve all 10 is invited to add their name to a
message board located using the 10th solution and is allowed access
to the Persues Society. There are Popular brain teasers on site as well
as Advanced teasers and Barry's cartoons accompany many of the puzzles.
Recreational mathematics enthusiasts might enjoy the Articles section
while puzzle webmasters can attract more hits to their site by joining
the Enigma 49 Site Ring.
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 Lloyd
King has a new lateral puzzles book on sale, Amazing
Aha Puzzles crammed with 100s of mind bending teasers. In addition,
Test
Your Creative Thinking published by Kogan-Page encourages the
reader to develop alternative ways of interpreting problems. Lloyd
also has a creativity society called VINCI
to which entrance is gained by passing his X-test.
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Check out the
collection of Japanese puzzles at Puzzleboxesusa.com
. This interesting site features Yosegi puzzle boxes, locks and puzzle
jugs, all crafted with care.
The USA are the
team winners of the 2004
World Puzzle Championship held at Opatija, Croatia in October. Niels
Rost of the Netherlands was the individual winner.
For UK radio
listeners, puzzles and photographs from the recent BBC Radio 4 Puzzle
Panel series can be found at the BBC
website.
Photographs of
the 2002
Antwerp puzzle party are now available.
Philip
Carter has a book on sale called Workout For A Balanced Brain. Readers
can discover their own “brain bias” (left side/right side
weakness and strengths) and then develop the side that needs attention.
Contains rigorous training exercises that result in enhanced mental
power in every area.
For those who
enjoy a challenge, there are some very nice endurance-testing moving
piece puzzles available written in Flash 5.
A maze made of
maize, claimed to be the largest in the world, has now been harvested.
Created by Stewarts Gardenlands in the shape of a leaping stag, it was
planted in Christchurch, Dorset, UK in May 2002, and had 7.6 miles of
pathway covering 16 acres. Maze lovers can look forward to its resowing
next spring.
QBrute has a
new brain
teasers site. Original material and you have to solve a puzzle to
find the solutions page.
Ian Stewart has
two books out : The Science of Discworld 2 and Evolving the Alien. He
also has a science fiction novel Healers in preparation.
Dr Clifford Pickover's
book The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles and Stars (Princeton University
Press) is now available (ISBN : 0-691-07041-5). If you thought you knew
everything there is to know about magic squares, think again! Thoroughly
researched and comprehensive. Dover Publications Inc. have reprinted
his Alien IQ Test. Author of books on creativity, art and mathematics,
his comprehensive website
deserves a visit.
Check out the
Puzzle University
with Registration, Lecture Halls, Students Union, Library and much more!
You can even gain a puzzle PhD!.
Those interested
in 3-D puzzles should be well rewarded by a visit to Russian designer
and inventor Viktor Genel's website
where his inventions are on sale.
News items please to
<puzzledbarry@yahoo.co.uk>
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