What goes into designing a great puzzle that is challenging and fun to solve? Most puzzle designers
will tell you that it takes a combination of logic, intuition, and trial and error to create a
good puzzle. But can a computer program create good puzzles? Check out the
puzzles below and see what you think.
(More information on PuzzleBeast
puzzles.)
Shameless Plugs
The Kung Fu Packing Crate Maze is available from
ThinkFun under the title Tipover!
The Fried Okra Perplexity is available from ThinkFun under the title Hot Spot!!
New - The Bulbous Blob Puzzle is available from Smart Games under the title Anti-Virus!!!
Older PuzzleBeast generated puzzles are posted at Andrea Gilbert's
clickmazes
site. (See
Plank Puzzles and
Orientation Mazes.)
For best results, the Java based puzzles are best viewed with
Mozilla 1.2, Internet Explorer 5.0,
Netscape 4.7, or higher versions.
All puzzles copyright by James W. Stephens, unless otherwise noted
The Fried Okra Perplexity
A Dozen Irritating Sliding Block Puzzles
The Bulbous Blob Puzzle
Meandering Monk Maze
The Kung Fu Packing Crate Maze
Rolling Block Puzzles
Dry Cleaner Puzzles
The Christmas Tree Maze
Dry Cleaner II: The Dungeon of Stubborn Stains
Sliding Block Puzzles
Oskar van Deventer's ConSlide Puzzles