Jaap's Puzzle Page


UPDATED 03/03/2013. There is now a huge Gallery of my whole collection. There are new pages on the Ai Cube, 2×3×4, 3×4×5, 4×4×5, 4×4×6, Two-Colour 4×4×6, Diamond Dilemma, Helicopter Cube, Curvy Copter, Nautilus, Polydron Enigma, Slide Rule Pie 3, Slide Rule Pie 6, and Super Brain Spinner. and I added the Flat Diamond Cube to the Rubik's Cube Variants page.
There are some neat new results about Lights Out on a torus on the Lights Out Mathematics page.
Last but not least, there is a new article about Bandaged Puzzles and PSPACE-completeness.

UPDATED 28/10/2012. I added a new page on Rubik's Cube Variants, containing the Void Cube, Shephard's Cube, Egg Cube, Heart Cube, Oval Cube, Mastermorphix 1, 2, 3, Rhombic Dodecahedron Cube. Nine Colour Cube, and Labyrinth Cube.
There are also new pages on 1×2×5 Gari Garikun Puzzle, Bolaris, Pentahedron, Quarter Turn Cube / Constrained Cube 90°, Square 2, Izzi 2, Kabalabda, Instant Indecision, and 7×7 Oktató Játék.
I updated the Frustr8tor page with a javascript simulation of the new version of the puzzle, and added the Gear Mastermorphix to the Gear Cube page, and the Rudenko Matryoshka, Rudenko Clips and Rudenko Disk to the Towers of Hanoi page.
I also added patents for the Code Breaker / Twisting Rings Puzzle, Cubedron, Butterfly, Flip-Side, SphereXyz, and Dodek Duo to the Patents page, and analysis of Alien Tiles and some other additions to the The Mathematics of Lights Out page.

UPDATED 06/05/2012. Added new pages for Crazy 2×3×3, Culica, Delta Ball, Gear Shift, Latch Cube, Leesho, Magic Rainbow Ball, Mind Jewel, Moeraki Nr. 3, and Moeraki Nr. 4. I also added Minus Cube to the Varikon Box page, Four Colour Swissmad to the Swissmad page, The Great Pyramid to The Great Pyramid Pocket Puzzle page, calculated God's Algorithm for the Dual Circle, and Rotascope, and created a neat diagram of the rectangular positions of the Rubik's Magic. Added javascript simulations of Culica, Leesho, Moeraki Nr. 3, and Moeraki Nr. 4. There are new Java applets that let you play Lights Out on a Graph, and Circle Puzzles, I improved the Polyform puzzle Applet and finally I wrote a page about Computational Group Theory.
If you have a puzzle but don't know its name, then you can look at the
Graphical Overview
of all the puzzles featured on this site, or look through the
Gallery of my whole collection
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Rubik's Cube family:
Tetrahedral: (4 axes)
Cubical: (6 axes)
Octahedral: (8 axes)
Rhombic Dodecahedral: (12 axes)
Dodecahedral: (12 axes)
Dihedral:
Toroidal:

Programs, etc.:
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Other moving piece puzzles:
Bandaged:
With gaps:
Flat without gaps:
Other permutation puzzles:
Articles:
Other interesting puzzles:

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