Question: Dear Puzzles.com Staff,
Thanks for your reply and I would love to know when you update the site to include details and moves. I appreciate your contacting me. Good old fashioned PR, it works every time!
Best wishes to every one for a happy and safe holiday season,
Virginia.
Answer: Thank you Virginia!
Every time we are receiving such friendly messages from you we understand
our work at the Puzzles.com is necessary for all our visitors. Stick with
us -- many great things are preparing for you!
Our third Mini-Contest with
PuzzlePLAYGROUND
sector. Simultaneously, the
names of the first solvers of the puzzle (when the contest is complete) will
be presented and within the Puzzle Help section too.
Mini-Contest 12 is Finished
It was our twelfth mini-contest. Now we'd like
to propose this contest's results and some details about
the puzzle and
its
solution. With this Mini-Contest
12 is finished.
It was our third Mini-Contest with
PuzzlePLAYGROUND sector, and you, our fellow visitors, were extremely active. We thank you for this, and look forward to the next Mini-Contests. Happy Puzzling!
Contest Results
The winners are:
1. David Rodgers.
2. Prakash Khaitan.
From time to time we are receiving your messages with
seemingly simple requests which turn out to be hard puzzle nuts even for
us, though. In these cases our search was unsuccessful. Nobody can
know everything!
At the moment we have a pretty big collection of such perplexing
questions, and now in turn we'd like to ask you, our visitors, to help us
with finding out answers to them. It easily can be that somebody of you
knows some answer to any of the questions below, so any your tips or help
will be greatly appreciated - simply
Contact
Us.
Question: Choose an integer from 0 to 15 (inclusive of 0 and 15). You ask me 7 yes/no questions, I answer them all. I am allowed to lie once (I
don't have to lie that once but I am allowed to). Determine the number I am thinking of and tell me how to do this.
Z.
Mini-Contest 11 is Finished
It was our eleventh mini-contest. Now we want
to propose this contest's results and some details about
the puzzle and
its
solution. With this Mini-Contest
11 is finished.
As so far it was our hardest contest - we've received just two answers. We thank you for your participation, and look forward to the next Mini-Contests. Happy Puzzling!
Contest Results
The winners are:
1. Kaj Braek.
2. Jason Meyers.
Question: I am looking for a puzzle made up of lots of tiny pictures that make up
one larger picture when complete. I have seen them for sale in the past.
In fact I think one was the statue of liberty when complete. Can you help
me?
Wanda M.
Answer: These jigsaw puzzles are the Photomosaics
created by
Runaway
Technology.
This is our next Mini-Contest with
PuzzlePLAYGROUND
sector. Simultaneously, the
names of the first solvers of the puzzle (when the contest is over) will
be presented and within the Puzzle Help section too.
Mini-Contest 10 is Finished
It was our tenth mini-contest. Now we'd like
to propose this contest's results and some details about
the puzzle and
its
solution. With this Mini-Contest
10 is finished.
It was our second Mini-Contest with
PuzzlePLAYGROUND sector,
and again you, our fellow visitors, were extremely active. We thank you for this, and look forward to the next Mini-Contests. Happy Puzzling!
Contest Results
The winners are:
1. Jensen Lai.
2. Alex Packard.
3. Prem.
4. Koby Shachar.
Question: This is an old Parker Brothers Puzzle that has four blocks with red, white, green and blue colors. They are to be stacked so that there are four colors, all different, showing on each side. No two blocks are alike. I believe this puzzle came out in 1967 thank you---it's driving us insane!
Linda M.
Answer: The Instant Insanity puzzle was an ingenious invention of Frank
Armbruster. The puzzle was licensed to Parker Brothers, and was sold over 12 million copies in 1966-1967. You may found many interesting facts about the inventor
at the
Gamepuzzles site:
http://www.gamepuzzles.com/frank.htm.
Question: Gold coin weighs one gram, counterfeit coin weighs 1.1 grams. You have 10 bags full of coins, nine of the bags are full of real gold but one bag is full of the counterfeit coins. Given a perfect scale (a pointer scale, for example) and ONE weighing can you determine which bag has counterfeit coins? If so how?
Z.
Mini-Contest 9 is Finished
It was our ninth mini-contest. Now we'd like
to propose this contest's results and some details about
the puzzle and
its
solution. With this Mini-Contest
9 is finished.
Contest Results
The winners are:
1. Jensen Lai.
2. Kevin McMullin.
3. Ray Beaumont.
4. Horst Karaschewski.
5. Mike Kurylo.
6. Nicole Takahashi.
7. Sheila Hedger.
8. Brian Tolfree.
9. Igor Goldman.
10. Kaj Braek.
11. Jason Meyers.
12. Ambadas.
13. Sandhya Kunnatur.
14. Adnan Macit.
15. Suhas Subramany.
040 Jigsaw Puzzles by Bev Doolittle and Steven Michael Gardner
Question: im looking for puzzles from bevdoolittle an/or steven michael gardner can you help
T.
Answer: To find Bev Doolittle's puzzles visit Nancy Ballhagen's Puzzles
site at:
http://www.missouripuzzle.com/.
To learn more about Bev Doolittle - one of the most astonishing artists of our time - or see the complete catalog of her work visit the Artifacts Fine Art Gallery at: http://bevdoolittle.artifactsgallery.com/.
Our traditional Mini-Contests now can be found
not only in the Puzzle Help section but in other sectors of Puzzles.COM as
well. Simultaneously, announcements about such contests and the
names of the first six solvers of the puzzle (when the contest is over) will
be presented and within the Puzzle Help section too. So in this section you
can
always see all the contests we have at our site.
Mini-Contest 8 is Finished
We got a lot of your answers to Puzzles 1 and 2.
Both puzzles were really hard puzzle nuts, so for this reason we decided
to post here the names of all our contestants who sent in correct
solutions to Puzzles 1 and 2.
Now we'd like to propose this contest's results and some details about
the puzzles and their
solutions. With this Mini-Contest 8 is finished.
It was our first Mini-Contest with
PuzzlePLAYGROUND sector, and you, our fellow visitors, were extremely active. We thank you for this, and look forward to the next Mini-Contests. Happy Puzzling!
Contest Results
Puzzle 1
The winners are:
1. Jensen Lai.
2. Joao Paulo.
3. Marsha Landau.
4. Clayton Snyder.
5. Payne Christopher.
6. Todd.
7. Jim Barnard.
8. Tracie Kalliainen.
9. James Boseovski.
10. Brian Birkey.
11. Yahali Sherman.
Puzzle 2
The winners are:
1. Jensen Lai.
2. Joao Paulo.
3. James Boseovski.
4. Brian Birkey.
5. Jim Barnard.
6. Ram Prasath.
7. Jenny Ormos.
8. Jonathon Houghterine.
9. Yahali Sherman.
About the Mini-Version
Also we got the only correct solution to the
small version - from Ana L. Argomedo. See its
solution.
Question: I need to get 21 pigs, in 4 different stalls, and i have to have a odd number in each stall.
i seen this in a magazine. And i need some help. I dont think it can work..
thanks.
eric
Mini-Contest 7 is Finished
It was our seventh mini-contest. Now we have the first
six correct answers and propose this contest's results and some details about
the puzzle and
its
solution. With this Mini-Contest 7 is finished.
Contest Results
The winners are:
1. Jensen Lai.
2. Nicole Takahashi.
3. Ben Liu.
4. Chase Brechlin.
5. Nigel Wilson.
6. Alex Packard.
From time to time we are receiving messages with
the solutions to the puzzles posted at our site which differ from those we
give in the respective solution pages to these puzzles. Such new solutions
are wonderful
and very welcome additions!! Please, don't hesitate to share your finds
with us - we'll be more than happy to add them to the solution pages as
additional possible solutions to the respective puzzles.
Solution:
Working on your second puzzle in pencil & paper [Puzzling
Journey], I've come up with two other
solutions that seems to work. It's not like your path but does not
contradict any of the limiting points. I've attached the solutions as a
word file. Thanks!
Chantal G.
Solution: Hey! I found another one with a different possible solution
[Four
Circles]. :)
faielyne
