The 2006 US Puzzle Championship practice test has been posted. The first puzzle used to be called "Number Place" in the old test but has been renamed to "Sudoku Variation". Very cute.

This will be the first US Puzzle Championship since sudoku fever has hit the US. I do wonder if the number of entrants is going to be affected.

puzzlinks.com had an interesting idea of a "Lost Bridges" puzzle, which can be found hereUnfortunately, the example given does not have a unique solution, so I spent some time and came up with one of my own ( Read more... )

This is referring to the puzzle competition here ( Read more... )

There's this fellow at Princeton, Joshua Greene, who collects 'moral paradoxes'. You know, the kind where you get to pick who to save from drowning, but with a more philisophical edge ( Read more... )

Long time since an update, so as yet another stop-gap I'll mention another obscure puzzle game: Vampiric Tower ( Read more... )

Well, I might not update weekly, but I do run across the occasional game I'd like to share. For now it is Mines-Perfect ( Read more... )

I used to run a puzzle site called puzzlebistro.com on which I posted a puzzle a day. My favorite from that time was this one ( Read more... )