• A dissection puzzle, also called a transformation puzzle or Richter puzzle, is a tiling puzzle where a set of pieces can be assembled in different ways...
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    A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented as a set of mechanically interlinked pieces in which the solution is to manipulate the whole object or parts...
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    Tangram (redirect from Tangram puzzle)
    (Chinese: 七巧板; pinyin: qīqiǎobǎn; lit. 'seven boards of skill') is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat polygons, called tans, which are put together...
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    this particular puzzle was invented by a New York City amateur magician, Paul Curry, in 1953. However, the principle of a dissection paradox has been...
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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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    German) is a dissection puzzle consisting of a flat egg-like shape divided into 9 or 10 pieces by straight cuts. The goal of the puzzle is to rearrange...
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    Soma cube (category Mechanical puzzle cubes)
    The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Danish polymath Piet Hein in 1933 during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg...
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    Also known as Loculus of Archimedes or Archimedes' Box, this is a dissection puzzle similar to a Tangram, and the treatise describing it was found in...
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  • puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles....
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  • there is no odd equidissection of a square. Dissection puzzle Hilbert's third problem Hinged dissection Stein, Sherman K. (March 2004), "Cutting a Polygon...
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    proportions of the different pieces. The Latin cross puzzle consists of a reassembling a five-piece dissection of the cross with three isosceles right triangles...
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    Bedlam cube (category Mechanical puzzle cubes)
    The Bedlam cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by British puzzle expert Bruce Bedlam. The puzzle consists of thirteen polycubic pieces: twelve pentacubes...
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    spelling. Researchers have found that adults who regularly solved crossword puzzles, which require familiarity with a larger vocabulary, had better brain function...
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  • a list of puzzle topics, by Wikipedia page. Dexterity puzzle Ball-in-a-maze puzzle Brain teaser Chess puzzle Chess problem Computer puzzle game Cross...
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    Yoshimoto Cube (category Mechanical puzzle cubes)
    volume of the original cube, making it a kind of three-dimensional dissection puzzle. stellated rhombic dodecahedron 2×2×2 cube form of Yoshimoto Cube...
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    A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle is a combination puzzle that challenges a player to slide (frequently flat) pieces along...
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    Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including...
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    to puzzles and problems in tiling. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 978-0-88385-501-0. Frederickson, Greg N. (2002). Hinged Dissections: Swinging...
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    Disentanglement puzzles (also called entanglement puzzles, tanglement puzzles, tavern puzzles or topological puzzles) are a type or group of mechanical puzzle that...
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    Tower of Hanoi (redirect from Reve's puzzle)
    and sometimes pluralized as Towers, or simply pyramid puzzle) is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of disks of various...
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  • Pandora's Box (1999 video game) (category Puzzle video games)
    is a triangle-based dissection puzzle, where seven Pieces must be correctly ordered in a grid. Jesse's Strips is a jigsaw puzzle where pieces may overlap...
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  • policy tool used by the US Federal Reserve System Soma cube, a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein Soma San Diego, a concert venue in San Diego...
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    Ostomachion (category Geometric dissection)
    and Lucretius have also discussed the game. The game is a 14-piece dissection puzzle forming a square. One form of play to which classical texts attest...
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    Early puzzles, known as dissections, were produced by mounting maps on sheets of hardwood and cutting along national boundaries, creating a puzzle useful...
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    A vanishing puzzle is a mechanical optical illusion comprising multiple pieces which can be rearranged to show different versions of a picture depicting...
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  • This is a list of puzzles that cannot be solved. An impossible puzzle is a puzzle that cannot be resolved, either due to lack of sufficient information...
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  • A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematical field of deduction. The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better...
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  • Magical Drop Magnetica Money Puzzle Exchanger Puzzle League series Poker Smash Puzzle Bobble (a.k.a. Bust-a-Move) Puzzle Link, Puzzle Link 2 Wordle Unlimited...
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  • a puzzle, the solver must find a solution that satisfies the given conditions. Mathematical puzzles require mathematics to solve them. Logic puzzles are...
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    puzzles are logic puzzles, which are examples of multi-agent reasoning, where the solution evolves along with the principle of induction. A puzzle's scenario...
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