Puzzles & Games
A1. Leap Frog Puzzle
Your
task is to switch the frogs by moving one step forward or jumping one frog.
Your task is to figure out
how the magic gopher guesses your two digit number.
Your task is to reorder the
numbers from 1 to 15. Clicking on a
number moves it to the blank square.
A4.
Switching Red
Knights and Blue Knights Puzzle
Your task is to switch the positions of the red
knights & blue knights. It is not
at all easy.
The knights move in an L-shape manner (in the
usual way a knight moves in Chess) and
two knights cannot
occupy the same square.
A5. Three Dogs versus One Rabbit
Game
Can the three dogs trap
the rabbit within 25 moves and before it reaches the leftmost square.
Your task is to play
against the computer as the three dogs (hounds) or as the rabbit.
The dogs should always
win but as soon as you make a mistake the rabbit can win.
Your
task is to alternately pick numbers (with the computer) from the set {1, 2, 3, …, 9}
so that three of the numbers from the set you pick, will add
up to 15. A variation of tic-tac-toe.
A7. Three Words with a Common Letter Game
Your task is to alternately
pick words (with the computer) from the given set of words so that 3
of
the words from the set you pick, will have a common letter. Another variation of tic-tac-toe.
Click play and then
click again when you think the bat will make contact with the ball (coconut)
A9. Grab One of the End-Coins Game
Your task is to get (grab) more money than the computer. Good luck.
Your task is to get
three balls in a row before the computer does.
Start at level 1 and
play first, otherwise the computer will beat you every time.
A11. Northcott’s Nim-type Game
Your task is subtract
or add spaces between the counters so that you make the last move possible.
Start with height 2 or 3
until you figure out the game – other you will always lose to the computer.
Your
task is to end-up with more counters than the computer. This is a classic & fast moving game.
Classic solitaire puzzle in
which all the pieces must be removed except the last.
B4. Tricky (not serious) IQ Quiz
Good
for a few laughs only once (or twice at best).
Simple formula for guessing a chosen number.
B7. Baseball with a Stick-Figure Game
Click on the hinge
and swing like a baseball bat to see how far you can send the stick figure.
B8.
Positioning the States of the USA Puzzle
Position the US states on the given map so that you are off by the
smallest total amount.
I did it
and got a 100% score with 0 mile error in 497 seconds – by luck, I guess.
B9. Click on the color, not on the word Speed Test
Just a test of how fast your brain can react to a
stupid but fun test.
B10. Twelve or Thirteen Puzzle
will become 13. Your
task is to figure out from where the thirteenth guy came from.
C1.
Origin of the Internet Story
Funny (untrue) story
about how the internet was created.
C3. The Asu tribe’s and their racs
Story
about the obsession with racs of a tribe that lives North
of the Rio Grande.
C4. The Nacirema tribe’s attitude towards the body
Story about the Nacirema’s
attitude towards the human body.
C5. Is a computer male or female?
Reasonably
funny story about: “La computadora o el computador.”
C6.
Life of an Electron Story
(Censored)
Story about the wild and secret life
of an electron.
C7. Pretty Polynomial Story (Censored)
Story about a polynomial which went into a vector
field without its parentheses.