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A New Email Address
Dear puzzle friends,
Recently we've got a new email address for our site to respond your
messages. Please, find it on the
Contact
Us page. Unfortunately for the several last months we've been
experiencing some technical problems with our old email address. Thus,
it could happen you didn't get any reply from us on your message. We
express our deep regret of this fact and present a thousand apologies
to all of you. Now with the new email address we hope our
communication will improve significantly. If you still have some
unanswered questions on the messages you've sent to the old email
address, please re-send them to the
new
address. Thank you very much for your patience, understanding, and
constant cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
The Puzzles.COM staff
Posted: September 10, 2005
2004 Year Summary
Dear puzzle friends,
One more year of our Puzzles.COM is over. This was another puzzling
season of introducing to your attention of the new concepts in Puzzle
World and reviving of the old ones in their on-line versions. Among
the new concepts introduced this year were the
Packs & Collections sections, some
web presentations of several
ThinkFun products, many PDF Print ’n’
Play files, two new
Mini-Contests, or our recent joint
project with
PuzzlersParadise.com -
Drop Quotes. We hope you liked them.
We are very thankful to you, our fellow visitors, for your constant
attention and support to our site. We wish you another great year of
your personal success, including in puzzles' solving. And we hope that
our site will be your constant helper in this.
Have Fun and Keep Puzzling in the New Year 2005!
Posted: January 1, 2005
The Renewed
ThinkFun.com
Our parent company ThinkFun
Inc. is proud to present the renewed website -
ThinkFun.com, which is brighter,
friendlier and with more possibilities. The renewed website is
actually replacing the old GiftShop providing the new options to make
orders of the ThinkFun's products directly from the website.
Except the buying option, the interesting and useful information on
the Company and its press releases is also provided as well as play
options to some Company's products.
After the success of our first
joint project with
PuzzlersParadise.com -
Logic Problems (Monthly
Interactive and Printable), we've decided to bring up a new joint
project to you, our dear visitors. This time it is
Drop Quotes.
Like the first project, i.e.
Logic Problems, which is online for three
years already,
Drop Quotes are also in interactive and printable PDF
formats. So you are able to play them directly on your screen or to
print them out to play out of your machine. Approximately every
mid-month a pair of the
Drop Quotes problems is published - one
problem on our site and another on
PuzzlersParadise.com.
We believe you will enjoy this project too. Happy puzzling!
Following the success of the
Print 'n' Play Collection of 12 - Best Puzzles 2003 among our
visitors, we've decided to add another selection of twelve puzzles -
the Print 'n' Play Winter Collection. The Collection includes a
dozen of selected puzzles among those that were featured at
PuzzlePLAYGROUND sector during the
past winter months - December, 2003 and January-February, 2004.
The Print 'n' Play Collection of 12 as our New Year 2004 puzzle
gift was released at the beginning of January. The Print 'n' Play
Winter Collection was released at the beginning of March.
Downloading the Collections (PDF files) you receive each time a
booklet of 32 pages with complete rules, solutions and pieces to the
puzzles.
From now all our new or newly
featured puzzles through all the main sectors of the site will be
available in the hi-quality color PDF Print 'n' Play versions too.
We've started with PDF versions at our
Puzzles in Education (PIE) sector in
it's regular project - Puzzle of the Week. Later this option was
extended to our popular Logic Problems project. We are going to cover
other sectors with PDF versions as well. Now you can find them also at
PuzzlePLAYGROUND or
PuzzleCLUB. Each PDF file contains the puzzle itself, the
solution to it and where is required - pieces to print out. Feel free
to use these PDF files in any of your non-commercial purposes.
We would like to propose you to try three different types of PDF Print
'n' Play versions:
Seating Trouble...
> (file size 82 KB)
Puzzle of the Week from PIE
Summer Barbeque >
(file size 270 KB)
Logic Problem from Projects
10-in-5-Rows >
(file size 310 KB)
Puzzle from PuzzlePLAYGROUND
Binary Arts, parent company to
Puzzles.COM, is making a bold move to solidify its position as the
leading manufacturer of mind challenging games by renaming the company
ThinkFun. They are also introducing ThinkFun Centers to retailers to
spotlight their unique product, which embodies the philosophy that
problem solving is fun.
"We’re ready to take the company to the next level," says Bill
Ritchie, Founder and CEO. "We see a growing demand for mind
challenging games, particularly in the specialty market. Consumers
tell us that they are looking for an engaging challenge. Our new name,
ThinkFun, instantly conveys the experience of our product."
We'd like to inform our visitors that because of the overall redesigning and further
evolution, the current
DeepTHOUGHT sector will be reformed
soon, and so its content will be moved to other locations of our Puzzles.COM
site.
Most substantial parts of
DeepTHOUGHT
now are placed at the
Puzzles in Education section that is
a natural evolution of our old
DeepTHOUGHT sector and is designed for people who have their
interest in education.
It's very fresh and may contain some bugs, but stick with us and help us to breathe new life into this quite new section that's going to become a puzzle resource center for teachers and other people interested in
Puzzles in Education. Welcome to the
Puzzles in Education World!
In the past several months we have started
some new projects within the Puzzles.COM site. These are Logic Problems,
PocketPLAY as well as newly established Millennium Puzzles and PuzzleUP
- Hall of Fame projects.
The
Logic Problems is a joint project of Puzzles.COM and
PuzzlersParadise.com. At the beginning of each month a pair of
interactive logic problems is published - one problem on our site and
another one - on
PuzzlersParadise.com. These problems are very good
for improving your logical abilities.
If you'd like to play some puzzles on your mobile device you can
enjoy our
PocketPLAY project. In this section of Puzzles.COM you'll
find puzzles which you can play both on PC and Pocket PC. To play them
on Pocket PC - simply download them from the respective pages. Or you
can enjoy them directly on the site. So now you can take and play our puzzle
anywhere you want!
Our long ago announced list of the best
Millennium
Puzzles has been
already started. We'll do our best to include a wide range of puzzle
types, and hope this selection will bring you hours of fun, puzzling,
pleasant moments, and even remembrance and nostalgia. Today we start
with a few of our favorites, and will regularly add new and new ones.
Enjoy all those good old and new puzzle gems!
A
Hall of Fame of PuzzleUP sector. The Hall of Fame will consists of virtual puzzles which we consider are the best on the Web. For the moment
the Hall includes all the puzzles that have been our Special Features
in PuzzleUP. Definitely they all worth to be there! Now you can see
the first
laureates.
Congratulations!
In no time a very puzzling 20th Century was replaced with the 21st
Century. It took just a moment, but now we has to say that mostly
puzzles were created in the past centuries. Among them the best and
most interesting puzzles ever.
But the World of Puzzles, Games, Tricks, Illusions is much like a real
World which never stops and never sleeps. We permanently create
puzzles and solve them, we play games and win (or loss), we entertain
our audience with cool tricks and try to find out the secret of the
tricks we are amused with, many times we can't believe our eyes, and
every time we wonder how it's amazing (and difficult) to see unusual
sides in common things...
Every day brings us new and new puzzles. And we may be delighted with fantastic and clever ideas, lots of fun and pleasure again and again. Just
play with That-A-Way - a new pattern-matching puzzle with a fantastic kaleidoscope of patterns! Or cross "the swamp" in
Plank Puzzle No.15 - Fiendish from Andrea Gilbert using the available tree-stumps and planks.
Our site was fully renewed including the most recent, new design of our main page which now contains much more puzzling things you may immediately choose from. We have many great plans and much more is to come. But first of all we want to thank you for your fantastic patience. You're very welcome to explore
Puzzles.COM and its renewed sectors, sections and pages. We hope you'll
like these changes. You're very welcome to contribute. We're sure
we'll like and appreciate all your ideas.
We'd like to share with all puzzle enthusiasts all around the World our passion in Puzzles and Puzzling, our love to all those nice-beautiful-amazing-wonderful-clever-fun things which help us learn and teach, relax and work, create and live. You're welcome to join us in building the World Puzzling Community.
In a few days Year 2000, the 20th Century, and the 2nd Millennium will
be over, and we'll make a step into a new Era. Without doubt for all
the puzzle lovers from all around the World this will be the Era of
the Puzzle.
PuzzleCLUB now has more than one thousand and five hundred fantastic puzzlers, who inspire us to invent new and new puzzles, and this Holiday Season will bring many of them to you.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, New Century, and New Millennium!
Happy Puzzling!
We've Got a Birthday
Gift!!
English 16
Bob Kirkland made a generous birthday gift for
Puzzles.COM
- a great puzzle applet "English 16."
Thank you very much, Bob! We put this puzzle in
Our Collection as its first item.
We have received more than five hundred forms filled out with your wishes, thoughts, suggestions... All this means that
PuzzleCLUB now has more than five hundred fellow puzzlers!
It's extremely pleasant to get to know your better, to read your clever and deep ideas, kind wishes, and first of all to feel your love to Puzzles and Puzzling.
Like for most of you Puzzles are the life-long interest for our
Puzzles.COM staff.
We're happy to say:
