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	Missing square puzzle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The key to the puzzle is the fact that neither of the 13x5 "triangles" has the same area as its component parts.
		The integer dimensions of the parts of the puzzle (2, 3, 5, 8, 13) are successive Fibonacci numbers.
		Many other geometric dissection puzzles are based on a few simple properties of the famous Fibonacci sequence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missing_square_puzzle (274 words)

	The Five Square Puzzle
		Puzzle addicts are familiar with the type that appears in The Age each Saturday.
		The central square is blank but has a value equal to one of the letters, which we must find; let us call it "x" initially.
		Comments are very useful in keeping track of which row/col you have used; also, it helps to mark in the puzzle table which letters you have already involved by putting a dot near them, ie.
	www.melbpc.org.au /pcupdate/9810/9810article8.htm (854 words)

	Visual Development - Triangle Puzzle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The red triangle is 3 squares high, and should be 7.5 squares across for the hypotenuse to have the same angle to the horizontal.
		In fact the red triangle is 8 squares across, and the angle of the hypotenuse is slightly shallower that that of the green triangle.
		But because the lower 'triangle' has a 'hypotenuse' that is actually convex, this extra area is the equivalent of one square, which is why the lower shape has a missing square.
	home.earthlink.net /~toddwolly/vision/triangle.html (286 words)

	Spectrum Summer 2003 - In This Issue
		American square dancing is thriving at MIT, where dozens of young people are swinging their partners, do-si-do-ing, and circling left and right.
		They square danced in the Appalachian Mountains, in the mining camps during the California gold rush, and every Tuesday and Saturday night, MIT students, alumni, and staff meet in Lobdell dining hall to arrange themselves into squares of eight.
		Krishnan says that school is competitive, but what she loves about square dancing is that it's teamwork, not competition.
	web.mit.edu /giving/spectrum/summer03/square-dance.html (787 words)

	The Mysterious Square Problem
		The pieces of the puzzle have an area of 32 square units.
		The distortion is difficult to see because one square of the picture is approximately 3% of the area.
		The distortion can be seen more clearly when the empty square constitutes a larger percentage of the area, as in the figure below where 1 square represents 13% of the area.
	www.scientificpsychic.com /mind/triangle1.html (190 words)

	Gems of Darkness Puzzle Solutions
		This puzzle is a two-dimensional extension of the Leap of the Locust puzzle in JOTO, in which you must return all balls to a like-colored background.
		This puzzle is suggestive of the cubical maze in the Path to Mahiman puzzle in JOTO.
		The six triplets of symbols shown in the clues hotspot in Puzzle 16 must be arranged vertically under the triangular pointer at the top of the puzzle.
	www.balmoralsoftware.com /gems/gems.htm (3628 words)

	WPC2000
		He gave me a great puzzle: Arrange the numbers 1-15 in a sequence with the property that every two consectutive numbers sum to a square number.
		They cracked their last puzzle (the blocks) with 6 minutes to go, too little time to solve the puzzle which gave the correct potato pieces.
		The new solver assumed it was a different kind of puzzle, and solved half of the puzzle incorrectly.
	www.mathpuzzle.com /WPC2000.html (2805 words)

	The Cassandra Galleries Review and Puzzle Solutions
		Generally, the puzzle design in Cassandra is nowhere near as good as in other puzzle titles such as Jewels of the Oracle or Clandestiny.
		Kutoka's solution to this puzzle appears to be inaccurate - the summer Olympics in Paris were played in 1924, not 1928.
		In these puzzles, you must arrange pictures in chronological order; most of the sequences are already in the proper order (or close to it).
	www.balmoralsoftware.com /cassand/cassand.htm (908 words)

	1999 Qualifiers Test
		Ignore the highlighting of the gray rows for the solving of the puzzle; they are used for the answer key.
		A clue number represents the sum of the digits to be placed in the squares to the right of it (for an across answer) or beneath it (for a down answer).
		In the first puzzle, for example, D must be the leftmost letter in both the first and third rows, and C must be the bottommost letter in the first and second columns.
	wpc.puzzles.com /history/tests/1999qtest/test.htm (1834 words)

	ThePuzzleBox
		These boxes were later identified by historians as "puzzle boxes" (Lament Configurations) created by Philip Lemarchand, the French architect and genius of the occult.
		The whereabouts of the five unaccounted for workers, as well as the five “missing” boxes, is still under investigation.
		It is said that LeMarchand created close to 300 of his puzzle boxes before his disappearance in 1811.
	www.thepuzzlebox.com (327 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Fort Gunnybags, Magic Square You must set up a "Freemason" magic square, where the sum of the numbers in each column and row is 15.
		You can align the squares correctly by lining up the "41" that is slightly visible in the surface of the cubes.
		Clues to the puzzle can be found in Alexandra’s Diary Cliffhouse, Egyptian Slots You can click on each wheel to change the symbols, as well as pulling the handle The correct icons can be found carved into the tiles on Lombard Street Lighthouse, Lighthouse Puzzle Each tile has fifteen states.
	www.gamerzone.com /pc/goldengate.txt (1267 words)

	Puzzles of the Week
		The squares 69696, 56722567225, and 95540955409 each repeat their digits with at least two full periods.
		For each segment in the path, you must go as far as possible, changing direction only when you are blocked by the grid's edge, a fl square, or a square already visited.
		Palcce one more orange square so that there are exactly 2006 ways to fill the remaining area with squares.
	www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/mathpuzzle (1254 words)

	Hidden Word Puzzle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		There is a kind of word puzzle where a list of words is hidden among random letters and the goal is to find the hidden words.
		Within the puzzle square the words may be oriented forwards, backwards, up, down, or diagonally (right and down, left and down, right and up, left and up).
		Optionally, underneath the square list the hidden words, four words per line and double spaced, in columns which are centered on the page.
	www.csc.calpoly.edu /~jdalbey/205/Assign/hidewrds.htm (566 words)

	Solution to "The N by N Tiled Floor Puzzle" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Then we group the tiles into 2 x 2 squares, and, looked at in the right way, the problem stays the same: tile a floor using (doubled) L tiles, when there's a missing square in the lower right.
		At some point, the fl square must be a corner of a larger square (whose sides are a power of two).
		Now we can regard the square we have just tiled as a new fl square, which is a corner square in a 2 x 2 square.
	orion.math.iastate.edu /burkardt/puzzles/tile_nxn_solution.html (441 words)

	Dan Garcia : Brain Candy : Puzzles to come
		With the opposite hand, grab the tops and the bottom of both corks, and pull your two hands apart.
		Josh's Dad's triangle puzzle (in which you evolve toward equilaterals)
		More number puzzles (divisibility by 9, 11, 3, etc)
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~ddgarcia/brain/puzzlestocome.shtml (372 words)

	Earliest Use of Special Techniques for Making Adult Jigsaw Puzzles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The smaller puzzle is then placed exactly over the same portion of the image in the larger puzzle and selected “key” pieces glued together between the two puzzles, thereby anchoring the top puzzle onto the bottom puzzle.
		Loose cut puzzles, the result of the use of thicker blades during cutting, normally are not considered well cut puzzles by most American collectors and enthusiasts[25].
		Since exposure to dampness “tightens” a puzzle over the years and England is renowned for its damp climate, the makers of English puzzles may have compensated for the inevitable swelling by cutting “looser” puzzles.
	www.oldpuzzles.com /earliest_uses (3819 words)

	Fibonacci series and MORE Number puzzles
		The Fibonacci puzzles are split into two sections: those with fairly straight-forward and simple explanations as to why the answer is the Fibonacci numbers are on the Easier Fibonacci Puzzles page.
		The puzzle this time is to help Rodderick count the number of different coloured patterns (arrangements) of rods in a line for a given total length.
		Edward Wakeling in Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles Dover, 1995, says that this puzzle was found in Lewis Carroll's papers (the original is now kept at Princeton University) and that this puzzle goes back to Schlomilch, 1868.
	www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk /Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibpuzzles2.html (3471 words)

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		For example, in a particular puzzle the user may notice that only one tile remains that has a lower panel that is red, and that only one tile remains that has an upper panel that is red.
		One possible move is to move the upper pen two squares downwards while the other pen moves three squares right, and the other choice is to move the upper pen two squares left while the other moves back up again.
		He's done extensive research on puzzle kings Loyd and Dudeney, and much of that research is indexed at Knuth's site, such as the Dudeney-Loyd columns for Tit Bits.
	www.mathpuzzle.com /Aug52001.htm (7587 words)

	Springbok Puzzle piece matching information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In addition to using different die cutters for the same puzzles, there is also the problem of "picture alignment".
		With an octagon puzzle like this, or a round one, the picture can be rotated 4 ways.
		With a square puzzle like this, the picture can be rotated 4 ways.
	members.cox.net /springboks/cuts-examples.html (155 words)

	MBARI - "Sinkers" provide food for deep sea - News Release
		Robison believes that, although these sources may be important in some areas, they are not persistent enough or substantial enough to account for what is apparently a world-wide phenomenon.
		Knowing the volume of water that was observed during each midwater survey, Robison and coauthors Rob Sherlock and Kim Reisenbichler were able to estimate the overall abundance of sinkers in Monterey Bay.
		The inability to account for all the carbon reaching the seafloor has been a major concern not only to oceanographers but also to some climate modelers who are trying to understand global warming.
	www.mbari.org /news/news_releases/2005/sinkers.html (1235 words)

	Fun and Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Feel free to submit any puzzles that you think are interesting, my email address can be found here.
		The main requirement for any puzzles listed here is they should not require any advanced mathematical skills.
		The whole point of a good puzzle is for it to prey on your mind until you solve it.
	astronomy.swin.edu.au /~pbourke/fun (412 words)

	Free 15 Classic Slide Puzzle 1.50 Downloads \| 15 classic slide puzzle comes back! \| Play Shot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The puzzle consisted of a little box with 15 numbered square pieces that could be slid around to be arranged in rows from 1 in the upper left corner to 15 last on the bottom row.
		But then only the last two tiles 14 and 15 were scrambled which made the puzzle mathematically unsolvable and made people rack their brains in vain.
		Those who had the 15 slide puzzle in childhood will not fail to try the game in the digital format again.
	www.playshot.com /logic_games_32/15_classic_slide_puzzle_26624.htm (451 words)

	World Puzzle Championship - 2000 WPC
		The triangular shapes are very unusual, making the puzzle a little more difficult because the solver must be very careful to make sure that ships don't touch at a single point (and at the same time must remember to take advantage of this restriction!).
		The puzzles used for Part IX, the playoff round, were selected because they were visually appealing, required less than the normal amount of paper work to solve, and still presented a moderate challenge to the finalists.
		From talking with a number of the finalists, the most common oversight was missing some of the large triangles that included two vertices.
	wpc.puzzles.com /history/2000.htm (2822 words)

	DiscoverySchool's Puzzlemaker allows kids to create puzzles. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Each row, column and diagonal add up to a total but some numbers are missing.
		Math formulas are linked together to form a square.
		Choose from a variety of shapes, set the size, and let the computer generate a unique maze ready for you to paste into your newsletter.
	puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com /chooseapuzzle.html (254 words)

	Rebecca S. Lindsay's Tutoring Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In this puzzle you are dealing with trick triangles.
		The two triangular puzzle pieces don't fit exactly over the whole-area triangle; but you can't see that, because the whole-area triangle is not drawn in on the puzzle.
		If you look carefully at the first diagram, you will see that there is a gap between the edges of the two little triangles and the whole-area one.
	www.loisterms.com /trisolution.htm (246 words)

	Unlimited FREE Sudoku puzzles + Solver + Tutorial + Multi-player Session + Books
		Sudoku is the new puzzle craze played daily by millions people around the world.
		There is only one solution and you must use logic to solve the puzzle.
		You can also play the puzzle by using the hints given by the computer.
	www.sudokuprime.com (204 words)

	Video game reviews and cheats: XBOX, PS2, playstation2, Nintendo, PC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Solving the puzzle will give you some of Alex’s missing diary pages.
		This chart is a clue to the Chart Puzzle on the Balclutha.
		You must set up a "Freemason" magic square, where the sum of the numbers in each column and row is 15.
	www.gamezilla.com /cheats/walk/goldengatewk.asp (1261 words)

	Chris Simon's Waldo's Puzzle pattern - 12 inch crochet square
		This square is named for my paternal grandfather.
		If square measures less than 12 inches, add more rounds.
		In general, a round of single crochet will add about 1/2 inch to the square, and a round of double crochet will add a full inch.
	www.geocities.com /cdjsimon/waldos_puzzle.html (581 words)

	[No title]
		Dudeney's puzzles and perplexities in The Strand Magazine His columns entitled Perplexities ran monthly from May 1910 through June 1930, and had numbered problems.
		A profile by Fenn Sherie, "The Puzzle King: An Interview With Henry E. Dudeney," appeared in 71(26)398-404 and mentioned several of his most famous puzzles, with solutions.
		The original article also contained P12 and P84 from the Weekly Dispatch, and one curious further puzzle that I haven't seen elsewhere: Z96.1 Six little niggers: Find a sequence of the 14 rows/cols/diags of 6x6 so that the elements of adjacent lines are simultaneous queen moves apart, having one common point.
	sunburn.stanford.edu /~knuth/dudeney-strand.txt (1437 words)

	riddlearchive.html
		A chessboard has squares that are two inches by two inches by two inches.
		At 12, the 12 rings are separated by 11 silent intermissions, thus 11 seconds for the clock to ring 12 times.
		The number is 18; each is the square with the digits reversed.
	www.justriddlesandmore.com /riddlearchive.html (5722 words)

	Old News: 2003 - 4/2004
		But most of the game was kind of side-scrolling adventure style, you would enter rooms one screen at a time, and you could normally enter further screens on any of the four sides.
		You'd jump around and try to collect artifact pieces - once you've collected all the ones in the level, you would beat the level, and you would be presented with a jigsaw puzzle that you had to match up to create the picture of a famous historical antique treasure.
		I also remember that upon beating some of the stages, you be presented with a "fill-in-the-missing square"-type puzzle, where you would be presented with a three-by-three matrix of square patterns, with one of the square patterns missing, and you would have to deduce which pattern went in the empty square.
	web.mit.edu /eslin/www/oldnews03_0404.htm (3045 words)

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