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Winning Ways HexaFlexagon
Sadly, all within 13 months of each other, the three authors of the iconic book Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays passed away.
Elwyn Berlekamp: Sept 6 1940 – Apr 9 2019
Richard Guy – Sept 30 1916 – Mar 9 2020
John Horton Conway: Dec 26 1937 –…
Elwyn Berlekamp: Sept 6 1940 – Apr 9 2019
Richard Guy – Sept 30 1916 – Mar 9 2020
John Horton Conway: Dec 26 1937 –…
Warped-Grid Jig-Saw Puzzle
With a laser-cutter, it is easy to make one-of-a-kind jigsaw puzzles. The question then is what pattern of cuts to use. Here is a gallery of some experiments I have been making in which the cut pattern is based on a warped grid. A pseudorandom…
Walk a Crooked Path
In this puzzle you must find the most crooked path on a board made of squares. Each square is visited at most once, but you need not visit all squares. Your path goes from square to adjacent square, and should have as many 90-degree turns as…
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Troxes
Like Origami meets Lego. No scissors, tape, or glue. This modular paper cutout is based on triangular geometry and mates with neighbors (edge-connecting) to create tetrahedra, octohedra, and icosahedra. The resulting polyhedra can then mate once…
Tridecahedron Net
This net is similar to those in my 'Cubes and Things' 3D coloring books, where I use playful patterns to accent symmetries of polyhedra. By truncating one vertex of a dodecahedron, it becomes a tridecahedron. (Do you think truncating all the corners…
Traveling Through the Sierpinski Carpet and Menger Sponge
An ant wants to travel from one corner of the Sierpinski carpet to the opposite corner using the shortest possible route. And his friend, a termite, wants to do the same in the Menger sponge. Can you guide them well?
The Tax Man Problem
Bill Gosper shared this problem with me. He calls it the Tax Man Problem. In the province of Peculia Pecunia, you are paid on an annular basis. That is, you get a (unit radius) gold disk from whose center is punched a smaller disk which you donate to…
The Spikey Sculpture Kit
Assemble a paper sculpture of the Wolfram logo, affectionately known as "The Spikey".
The Shifting Maze
A maze on a flexagon, where the faces keep getting rearranged, adding an additional challenge to finding your way through the maze.
The Real Rubik's: A Visual Puzzle
My submission is an image featuring six cubes that all look like scrambled Rubik's cubes. But only one is. The other five all have some error impossible to find on a traditional cube. Can you suss out which it is and thereby find The Real Rubik's?
The Missing 13th
A diecut construction model. Assemble it to discover the missing 13th piece.
The Icosian Game
A game created by Sir William Rowan Hamilton. A traveler must visit 20 cities without revisiting any of them.
The High Energy Particle Psychics's Puzzle
Noted high energy particle psychic Fermi Geller is conducting a study of detox particles in his lab. He has successfully generated 13 new particles of Woo-ium in his reactor, but he needs to move the particles into the numerologically stable…
The Elusive 13 Piece Complete Set Puzzle
Thirteen is an odd number of pieces for a complete set puzzle. I found one such set and created a puzzle using it.
The Bandaged Cube
An analysis and solution offered in tribute to Professor Erno Rubik and Professor David Singmaster for the 13th Gathering for Martin Gardner.
The Art of Destroying Flexagons
Destroying flexagons can be fun and artistic! We suggest 4 different ways to artistically destroy flexagons, each with its own merit. Our exchange gift is a set of 4 flexagons strips, one for each demonstration and the attached explanation sheet.
Sudoku Ripeto and Custom Sudoku Books
Sudoku Ripeto and Custom Sudoku are the first Sudoku variants with repeated numbers and letters (please visit www.customsudoku.com). As such, they require new solving tricks and techniques.
I am glad to offer an assortment of books featuring…
I am glad to offer an assortment of books featuring…
StarHex-14: Theo Geerinck's 14 Polystars
14 tiles consisting of hexagons with 0 to 6 equilateral triangles attached on their edges can be cut from card stock provided to solve the large collection of puzzle figures presented. Five colors, each tile shape is unique with one mirror pair.…
Space Chips
Space Chips are a versatile building toy. With the same chips you can build 3D shapes that are symmetrical, or you can build 3D characters that are expressive and creative.
Sculptural Martin Gardner
My contribution to the gift exchange is a 5 X 7 inch, four-color, tri-fold glossy card with photographed imagery of my 11 X 12 X 9 inch multifaceted-portrait-sculpture of Martin Gardner. My painted, kiln-fired, stained glass and…
Sam Loyd Puzzles You Have Not Seen
In 1909, the Lyon Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY, published a small advertising booklet for Mexican Mustang Liniment. The booklet contained sixteen Sam Loyd puzzles, most signed with Loyd’s name. Most of the puzzles were duplicates or redrawn…
Reversing Nesting Box Puzzle
The puzzle consists of two boxes, with lids, One box is white and the other is blue. Place the white box inside of the blue box and close the lid. Now open the blue box and remove the white box. Next place the blue box inside of the white box and…
Rep-Tile Tangram
The gift will be a number of cut-out pages to create a rep-tile tangram: A tangram shape that is made from tangram shapes, that are made from tangram shapes.