royleban | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 14 2008 | puzzles, sudoku, books
royleban | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2008 | books, puzzles, sudoku
My first puzzle book just came out.
Read my blog post on thistangent.com for some more information.
Quoted: Who knew that sudoku could have so much personality? They can—when famous names and intriguing riddles add spice to these popular puzzles. Here’s how it goes: on top of the page is a fun, partially completed clue about an unnamed person; for example, “He was in _____ for 27 years before being elected president.” There’s also a series of nine letters to use in solving the “who-doku,” and the grid itself has a number of circled spaces, as well as shaded areas. When it’s totally filled in, the circled letters provide the answer to the clue, while the shaded ones reveal who the person is. So the solution to the question above is, “prison” and the man is question is Nelson Mandela.

royleban | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 16 2008 | sudoku, puzzles
Pretty decent book on how to solve Sudoku's. I got mine from the author and my wife has learned a lot from it, so I just bought one for my mom.
Quoted: Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won’t know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, turbot fish, grid coloring, and chains. Every single one is here, and much more too, including the exclusive Gordonian logic methods (Gordonian rectangles and Gordonian polygons) that will turn even the hardest puzzles into a breeze. Of course, there are hundreds of sudoku for practice. A very special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games magazine!

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1) http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/maths/toothpickworld/index.html
43 puzzles.
2) 7 direct images
http://www.jimloy.com/puzz/match.htm
3) in words (story problem)
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:WSFKYCNmxNMJ:www.mnstate.edu/peil/M416/Manual/Toothpick.doc+toothpick+puzzles&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us&client=firefox-a
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http://www.jokelibrary.net/yNonJokes/BrainTeasers05.html
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5) shortest straw probability
http://www.unipuzzle.com/Puzzles/4PToothpickChallenge/
6) Puzzle books
"The Moscow Puzzles - 359 Mathematical Recreations" by Boris Kordemskii,
"Creative Puzzles of the World" by Pieter van Delft and Jack Botermans
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1995/math/MATH003.HTM
7) The Math Forum @ Drexel (redundant?)
http://www.teachingk-8.com/archives/integrating_math_in_your_classroom/toothpick_puzzlers_by_michael_naylor.html
8) Web applet to move toothpicks
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/java/michael/toothpick2/toothpick2.html
9) another book
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/java/michael/toothpick2/toothpick2.html
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10) weird pbs link
http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_903/4493_figure.html
11) http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/math/nov07.htm
12) http://www.ahapuzzles.com/creative_thinking_2.htm
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