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Jaap's Puzzle Page 07/08/2007 04:16 PM UPDATED 11/03/2007. Added new pages for Brain-chek, Frustr8tor, Magellán, Trio, and some new puzzles by Douglas Engel, namely Palette 7, Palette Mix 4, and the Slide Rule Duel puzzles Pentaplenty and Heptalive, Added javascript simulations of Brain-chek, Frustr8tor, and Palette 7. UPDATED 16/12/2006. Added new pages for the Mona Lisa Code Breaker, the Im-puzzle-ball, Palette 21, the Great Pyramid, and the Slide Rule Duel. Added the Mini Magic and also completely rearranged the Rubik's Magic pages. Added the Cmetrick Too Hard to the Cmetrick Too page. There is now a detailed write-up of the Cmetrick Too Contest results. Updated the Izzi page with some new patterns. Added javascript simulation of Palette 21. UPDATED 20/08/2006. Added new pages for the Pionir Cube, the Varikon Box 2x2x2, Clark's Cube, the Battle Gear puzzles, and the four Farmland Gears puzzles. Added Cmetrick Mini to the Cmetrick page, Inversion to the Varikon Box 3×3×3 page, and Transposer Genesis to the Trixxy/Transposer page. Added new solutions for the Rubik's Domino and the Nintendo Barrel. Added javascript simulation of Cmetrick Mini, and the Varikon Box 2x2x2. If you have a puzzle but don't know its name, then you can look at the Graphical Overview of all the puzzles featured on this site. * = JavaScript simulation available Click to switch preview on/off Rubik's Cube family: Other moving piece puzzles: Articles: Tetrahedral: (4 axes) Bandaged: About my collection Cayley graphs Pyraminx* / Tetraminx/ Bandaged Pyraminx Cmetrick Too Contest Results NEW Meier-Halpern Pyramid Bicube (Bandaged Cube) Computer Puzzling Battle Gear Mask / Spy NEW Cubic Circular Cubical: (6 axes) Planets Circle Puzzler's Manual Rotascope* Simple Ideas for further puzzles Rubik's Pocket Cube (2×2×2)* Slide Rule Duel NEW Useful Mathematics Rubik's Cube (3×3×3) Square One / Cube 21 Group Theory for puzzles Rubik's Revenge (4×4×4) Trio NEW The Mathematics of Lights Out Professor's Cube (5×5×5) Puzzle Patents Barrel / Octagon With gaps: Rotational puzzles on graphs Diamond Style Puzzler* Cube subgroups Octahedron Atomic Chaos / Kaos* Cube Symmetries and Pretty Patterns: part 1 2, 3, 4 Pyramorphix / Stern Babylon Tower Thistlethwaite's 52-move algorithm BackSpin / Loophole Two-generator corners group Octahedral: (8 axes) Billiards 9-ball puzzle* Clark's Cube NEW Beachball Crossteaser* Diamond Diamond 8-ball puzzle* Other interesting puzzles: Dino Cube* / Rainbow Cube / 14-15 Puzzle* Brain Twist / Jackpot / Platypus Great Gears* Skewb Massage Ball* Pattern matching puzzles: Ultimate Skewb Missing link* Mona Lisa Code Breaker NEW Bolygok Dodecahedral: (12 axes) Panex* Circus Puzzler* / Drive Ya Nuts / Peter's Black Hole / Magic Jack / Spot Colour Puzzle / Thinkominos Rubik's Dice Alexander's Star IQube Pionir Cube NEW Dodeca Nona Dogic Rack'em Up* Fool's Spool Impossiball / Thomasball Rolling Cubes Puzzle* Four Cube Puzzle Megaminx Row by Row* Frustr8tor* NEW Saturn (by LD Games) Instant Insanity* / Buvos Golyok / http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/ Page 1 of 3 Jaap's Puzzle Page 07/08/2007 04:16 PM Saturn (by LD Games) Instant Insanity* / Buvos Golyok / Dihedral: SpongeBob Puzzle* Drive Ya Crazy Whip-it / 6 by 6* / Varikon Izzi UPDATED Brain ball* Varikon Box 2×2×2* NEW Rubik's Maze Rubik's Domino* UPDATED Varikon Box 3×3×3* / Inversion NEW Octacube Gerdig Ufo* Wisdom Ball / Wisdom Ball II On the Level Kép Korong / Rubik's Cheese* Magellán NEW Masterball* / Logi-Vip Flat without gaps: The Great Pyramid NEW Morph head Pyram (Hockey) Puck* Pyrix Butterfly* Roundy 3* / Roundy 4 Pyrus Circle Puzzle* / Whirligig Saturn* (by Mag-Nif) Rubik's Rabbits Cohan Circle* Smart Alex Raging Rapids Farmland Gear Big Crop / Tricky Disky / Triple Disky / Feed Lots / Hay Ride / Plow Deep Rubik's Royal Brainteaser Ufo/Varia-Disk NEW Spectra Rubik's Ufo* Rubik's Fifteen* Rubik's Tangle Flip-Side* Tantrix / Tantrix Rock Gripple (2)* Trixxy / Transposer Tiffany / Programs, etc.: Mad Triad / Handy Transposer 6 / Palette 7* NEW Transposer Bonbons / Transposer Genesis NEW / Palette 21* NEW Kaboozle / Stained Palette Mix 4 NEW Java Applets: Turn 12 Port to Port* / Triple Cross* Rubik's ZigZaw Rubik's Cube Java Applet Rashkey* Rotos* Sphere Symmetries Java Applet Others: Polyform puzzle Java Applet Rubik's Rings* / Hungarian Rings* Slide Rule Duel Pentaplenty / Brain-chek* NEW Javascript Source Code Slide Rule Duel Heptalive NEW Swissmad* Rubik's Clock* Topspin / No. Crunch* / Cmetrick* / CMetrick Mini* NEW Other stuff: Educational Logic Game Columbus Egg / Trillion* The X Super Puzzle Graphical Overview Tsukuda's Square / 'It' Puzzle* Dizzy Rainbow Links Page Lotica / Turn'Push* Enigma / Combinescion Guest Book Turnstile* / Puzzler* / Trio Hexadecimal Puzzle Uriblock / Mix Box* Im-puzzle-ball NEW Zauberkreuz* Kibble Cube * = JavaScript simulation available Kinato* Other permutation puzzles: Lights Out* / Mini Lights Out* / Lights Out 2000* / Lights Out Cube* / Astrolabacus* Lights Out Deluxe* / Vulcan XL-25 Chromo Ball / Merlin Cmetrick Too / Cmetrick Too Hard Luminations NEW Rubik's Magic / Mini Magic NEW / Combo Puzzle Create the Cube / Master Edition / Equator / Hungarian Globe Magic Rings / Magic Balls Massage Ball 2 The Orbik* Mozaika Orbix* Nintendo Billion Barrel* UPDATED Padlock* Octo Puzzle* Snake Cubes / Cubra* Orb (Orb-It) Spinout* / The Brain / Pakoválec* Chinese Rings Rainbow Puzzle* Think-a-Dot* Rubik's Shells* Towers of Hanoi* Siamese Cubes Rubik's Triamid Ufo (by Netblock) / King Ring http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/ Page 2 of 3 Jaap's Puzzle Page 07/08/2007 04:16 PM Home Links Guestbook These pages and scripts are written by Jaap Scherphuis, © Copyright 1999-2007. It is a non-commercial site. Some of these puzzles may be trademarked. This site is not derived from, associated with, or endorsed by the holders of such trademarks. Send any comments or suggestions to [email protected] http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/ Page 3 of 3.
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