An edge-matching puzzle is a type of tiling puzzle involving tiling an area with (typically regular) polygons whose edges are distinguished with colours...
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The Eternity II puzzle (E2 or E II) is an edge-matching puzzle launched on 28 July 2007. It was developed by Christopher Monckton and marketed and copyrighted...
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A three-dimensional edge-matching puzzle is a type of edge-matching puzzle or tiling puzzle involving tiling a three-dimensional area with (typically...
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puzzle Edge-matching puzzle Egg of Columbus Eight queens puzzle Einstein's Puzzle Eternity puzzle Fifteen puzzle Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle Geomagic...
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coined by Kurt N. Van Ness for the hexagonal tiles used in various edge-matching puzzle connection abstract strategy games, such as Psyche-Paths, Kaliko...
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be regarded as three-dimensional tiling puzzles. Dissection puzzle Edge-matching puzzle Polyforms Sliding puzzle Tessellation Fletcher III, Raymond R. (April...
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MacMahon Squares (category Puzzles)
are an edge-matching puzzle first published by Percy MacMahon in 1921, using 24 unique squares with 3-color patterns; each of the four edges is assigned...
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puzzle evoked negative public perception towards autistic individuals. They removed the puzzle piece from their cover in February 2018. Edge-matching...
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Master Mind: certain optimisation problems but not the game itself. Edge-matching puzzles Fillomino (Generalized) FreeCell Goishi Hiroi Hashiwokakero Heyawake...
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Puzzle Bobble, internationally known as Bust-A-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching puzzle arcade game developed and published by Taito. It is based on the 1986...
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embodied as Wang tiles implemented by patterns of complex molecules. Edge-matching puzzle Wang, Hao (1961), "Proving theorems by pattern recognition—II", Bell...
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kaliko plant Kaliko (Oz), a character in the Oz books Kaliko, an edge-matching puzzle game played using serpentiles Kaliko Kauahi, American actress Calico...
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to a matching criterion. There are a great number of variations on this theme. Puzzle pieces advance into the play area from one or more edges, typically...
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developed several successful puzzle games. His 1921 treatise New Mathematical Pastimes extended the linear edge-matching puzzle game of dominoes to two- and...
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awarded. The Eternity puzzle (1999) and Eternity II puzzle (2007) were a 209-piece tiling and a 256-piece edge-matching puzzle developed by Christopher...
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Puzzle Bobble 2 is a tile-matching video game by Taito. The first sequel to Puzzle Bobble, it is also known in Europe and North America as Bust-A-Move...
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Nonogram (redirect from Tsunami (puzzle))
Picross, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden...
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Mutilated chessboard problem (redirect from Dominoes on a checker board puzzle)
The mutilated chessboard problem is a tiling puzzle posed by Max Black in 1946 that asks: Suppose a standard 8×8 chessboard (or checkerboard) has two diagonally...
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Taisen Puzzle-dama is a series of Tile-matching video games developed and published by Konami. The first game, Taisen Puzzle-dama (1994), was released...
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arrangement as a serpentile (Van Ness notation 102), one of the hexagonal edge-matching puzzle tiles used in games such as Psyche-paths, Kaliko, and Tantrix. The...
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Lumines: Puzzle Fusion (pronounced as "Loo-min-ess") is a 2004 puzzle game developed by Q Entertainment and published for the PlayStation Portable by Bandai...
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Slitherlink (redirect from Loopy (puzzle))
the Loop, Loopy, Ouroboros, Suriza, Rundweg and Dotty Dilemma) is a logic puzzle developed by publisher Nikoli. Slitherlink is played on a rectangular lattice...
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Speedcubing (category Mechanical puzzles)
the rapid solving of various combination puzzles. The most prominent puzzle in this category is the 3×3×3 puzzle, commonly known as the Rubik's Cube. Participants...
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ZooCube (category Puzzle video games)
ZooCube is a 2.5D puzzle video game developed by PuzzleKings and released in 2002 by Acclaim Entertainment. It was the first puzzle game for the GameCube...
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Mahjong solitaire (category Puzzle video games)
many quadruples of matching tiles and that the hidden tiles are uniformly distributed. The perfect-information version of this puzzle is where the player...
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exchange places with an outer edge. The four edges in each matching quartet are distinguishable, since corresponding edges are mirror images of each other...
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congruent tiles, and to pack one of each n-omino into a rectangle. A classic puzzle of the second kind is to arrange all twelve pentominoes into rectangles...
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sphere for example, without two edges intersecting. A basic embedding problem often presented as a mathematical puzzle is the three utilities problem....
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a species of green pigs. A majority of the Angry Birds video games are puzzle games developed by Rovio and released for mobile devices, while other games...
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