Jaap's Puzzle 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, Rotascope, and Uriblock, 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.

UPDATED 27/12/2010. Added new pages for 36 Cube, Crazy 4×4×4 Cube I, II, III, Super Floppy Cube, Gear Cube, Gear Cube Extreme, Face-turning Octahedron, Pyraminx Crystal, Rubik's Slide, SphereXyz, and Starlet / Swesdotschka. I also added Ball-B and the Holey Megaminx to the Megaminx page, and a new simple solution for the Square-1. Added javascript simulations of Rubik's Slide, and Starlet / Swesdotschka. And finally I almost completely revamped the Ideas for further puzzles page, and updated the Links page.

UPDATED 31/01/2010. Added new pages for Tower Cube 2×2×3, 3×3×4, Cubedron / Cybedron, 6×6×6 V-cube, 7×7×7 V-cube, Dual Circle, Robinson Roulette, and added Gamze Lights Out to the Lights Out page, Arusloky to the Cohan Circle page, Jing Pyraminx to the Pyraminx page, Flowerminx to the Impossiball page. Added javascript simulations of Dual Circle, Cubedron / Cybedron, and Robinson Roulette. There is a new Puzzle Statistics page listing the number of positions for all the puzzles, and through plugging the gaps on that page I added God's Algorithm calculation results to the Rubik's Domino, Cohan Circle, Heptalive, Orbik, and Palette Mix 4 pages. And finally I greatly expanded the Cube Subgroups page to include groups generated by middle layer moves and wide moves.
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