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Holiday Dissections |
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After some ornaments are placed on each Christmas tree, there are a
number of empty cells left on it. The goal is to group empty cells
into three congruent parts. 4-in-1 Holiday puzzle. Merry Christmas! By
Peter Grabarchuk. |
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Coupled Hearts 2 |
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Place 5 rectangles onto the uppermost board in order to obtain 4 coupled hearts, each consisting of two hearts placed on the adjacent cells. By
Peter Grabarchuk. |
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Domino Day 2007: Falling into Life |
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Domino Day 2007 was held on 16th November, in Leeuwarden, The
Netherlands. It was broadcasted live or semi-live in 12 countries. The
theme of this year was Falling into Life. A total number of 4
500 000 dominoes were placed by 85 builders from 12 countries. 81,6%
of the total placed dominoes fell - 3 671 465. |
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16th World Puzzle Championship - Results |
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The 16th World Puzzle Championship which took
place October 6–11, 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has brought to US
Puzzle Team its 10th team title! The second place went to Japan and
the third - to Belgium. |
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Thomas Snyder Wins the 1st US Sudoku Championship |
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World Sudoku Championships are held for two years
already while there wasn't a US Sudoku National Championship before
the end of the last month. The idea to launch a national contest for
the phenomenally popular puzzle came from Brian Tierney, chief
executive officer of Philadelphia Media Holdings. He contacted Will
Shortz, the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the nation's
leading puzzle expert, who manages American teams of competitive
puzzle solvers. The rest is the history. |
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World SCRABBLE® Championship 2007 |
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This year the World SCRABBLE® Championship (WSC)
will be held at the Taj President Hotel in Mumbai, India on November
9–12. |
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The World Rubik's Cube
Championship 2007 |
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The 4th World Rubik's Cube Championship took
place on October 5-7 in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest also hosted the
World Rubik's Cube Championship in 1982, so this world championship
was the 25th anniversary. |
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Soccer, Samba and Puzzles - WPC 2007 |
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In 2005, in Eger - Hungary, Brazil was voted unanimously to host the
16th World Puzzle Championship. And here we are! This weekend the 16th
WPC starts in the wonderful and sunny Rio de Janeiro. The Championship
will last from October 6th to October 11th. In conjunction with WPC
the WPF (World Puzzle Federation) Congress will be held. |
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Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition 2007 - Results |
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Four winning designers, five selected puzzles and six awarded prizes -
all are the results of this year's Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design
Competition which took place in conjunction with IPP27, this August in
Gold Coast, Australia. 55 puzzles (one more than previous year)
entered this year's Competition which goal remained intact - to
promote and recognize innovative new designs of mechanical puzzles. |
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Mind Sports Olympiad 2007 |
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This year's Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) will be staged north of London
in Potters Bar from Saturday August 18th to Monday August 27th. |
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Merv Griffin launches Let's Do Crosswords! |
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Crossword lovers unite! Finally, there's a game show for you!
Legendary game-show guru Merv Griffin, the creator of Wheel of Fortune
and Jeopardy, among others, is now launching a new game show - Let's
Do Crosswords. |
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MathFest 2007 |
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This year's MathFest will be held in sunny San Jose, CA on August 3-5.
It will be a great celebration of mathematics, mathematical biology,
and the history of mathematics, a program rich with varied events and
activities for mathematicians, teachers, students, and everyone who
loves mathematics. |
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48th International Mathematical Olympiad, Vietnam 2007 |
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The 48th International Mathematical Olympiad (the "IMO 2007") starts
on July 19 in Hanoi, Vietnam and will be held till July 31, 2007. It
will be a perfect chance for young mathematics enthusiasts from all
over the world to demonstrate their abilities and to foster friendly
international relationships among mathematicians of all countries.
Every year the IMO is hosted by a different country. All the
participants are high school students. |
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Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition 2007 |
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The submission of the entries to the seventh annual competition has
ended on July 5, 2007, which is approximately 1 month prior to the
Puzzle Party. As usual, the aim of the Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design
Competition is to promote and recognize innovative new designs of
mechanical puzzles. All invited Puzzle Party attendees may vote for
the Puzzlers' Awards. The judging committee will select the Jury
Prizes, as inspired by the entered puzzles. All awards will be
announced on August 12, 2007, during the Puzzle Party. |
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NPL's MichiCon 2007 |
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This year’s National Puzzlers' League (NPL) Convention is held in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, July 12–15. It is the 168-th annual Convention -
MichiCon '07. The
Conventions are held since 1883. Every year they are held at
different place. The activities at a Convention usually include a
Host's reception, a lively Friday night program, two “official”
Cryptic Crosswords, competition on Saturday afternoon, and a Main
Event on Saturday night. There are always games (24 hours a day)
during such a Convention. |
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2007 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship |
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The Google U.S. Puzzle Championship will be held on Saturday June 16,
2007 at 1pm ET. The rules can be found
here. The
registration deadline is June 14, 2007. |
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The 1st U.S. Sudoku Championship Ever! |
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The 1st Sudoku National Championship will be held at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center, in the downtown of Philadelphia, on October 19-21,
2007. The Championship will be sponsored by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The event will be hosted by Will Shortz and sanctioned by the U.S.
Puzzle Championship organization. |
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Rubik's U.S. Open 2007 |
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The U.S. Open 2007 Rubik's Cube Competition is scheduled on June
16-17, 2007. It will be held at Chicago Cultural Center. |
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2007 National School SCRABBLE Championship |
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2007 National School SCRABBLE Championship (NSSC) will be held on May
4-5, at The Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI. |
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30th ACPT: Results |
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Tyler Hinman has won the 30th Annual American Crossword Puzzle
Tournament which ended on March 25, 2007. Our congratulations. |
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Mensa Mind Games® 2007 in Pittsburgh, PA |
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Mensa Mind Games® will take place April 20-22 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Once
again this will be a traditional 40-hour gaming marathon with Mensans
judging and critiquing games released in the past year and then
awarding the Mensa Select® seal to the top five of them. |
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Sudoku '07: Results |
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The 2nd World Sudoku Championship (WSC) has ended on April 1, 2007 in
Prague, Czech Republic. It revealed the new World Sudoku Champion -
Thomas Snyder, USA. The first runner-up is Yuhei Kusui from Japan and
the second runner-up is Peter Hudák from Slovakia. |
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30th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament |
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The nation's oldest and largest crossword competition will take place
in Stamford, Connecticut, on March 23-25. It will be the 30th
anniversary of the Tournament. |
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Pi Day - 3/14 1:59pm |
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The number is Pi, 3.1415926535…ad infinitum. The number you get when
you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter, and it
cannot be expressed as a fraction. It continues foreve. |
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Open German Optimizing Puzzle Championship 2007 |
The first Open German Optimizing Puzzle Championship will be held during March, 2007.
The Optimizing Puzzle Championship will consist of 20
optimizing puzzles. There will be four different
categories with five optimizers each. The participants
will have about a month time to find and submit their best
answers. In the end the certificates and champions' cups
will be awarded to the best participants in each category
and to the overall winner.
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Silicon Valley Puzzle Day |
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Silicon Valley Puzzle Day is held today, on Saturday, February 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sobrato
High School. |
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2nd World Sudoku Championship - Prague, 2007 |
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The 2nd World Sudoku Championship (WSC) will be held March 28 – April 1, 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic. The event is organized under the auspices of the president of the Czech Republic, Václav
Klaus. |
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Eternity is Back! Win $2 Million Starting This Summer! |
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Eternity II, the follow up to Eternity (released in 1999), has been
launched at London Toy Fair on January, 24. It is planned to hit shop
shelves on July 28, 2007. |
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A New World Record at the Caltech Winter 2007 |
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A new World Record has been set by Dan Dzoan at the Caltech Winter
Rubik's Cube Competition 2007 which took place in the Exploratorium in
San Francisco on January 13. Dan solved the 3X3x3 Rubik's Cube
one-handed in just 17.90 seconds! |
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Nordic Puzzle Exhibition 2007 |
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The start of the year is bringing the first puzzle exhibition. From
the North. A new puzzle exhibition by Matti Linkola - one of the most
prominent Finnish puzzlers - starts on January 18, 2007 in the Museum
of Technology in Helsinki, Finland. This will be Matti's biggest
exhibition so far. The exhibition is expected to last for a whole year
- till January, 2008. |
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January 8, 2008 |
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