Puzzles & Games
           

            A1.     Leap Frog Puzzle

                        Your task is to switch the frogs by moving one step forward or jumping one frog.

 

            A2.      Magic Gopher Puzzle  

                Your task is to figure out how the magic gopher guesses your two digit number.

 

          A3.    Fifteen Slider Puzzle

                    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.

 

            A6.    Getting Fifteen Game

  

                        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.

 

            A8.    Coconut Cricket Game

                        Click play and then click again when you think the bat will make contact with the ball (coconut)


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9.    Grab One of the End-Coins Game

                   Your task is to get (grab) more money than the computer.   Good luck.

 

            A10.  Three-in-a-row Game  

                        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.

            A12.  Classic Reversi Game

                        Your task is to end-up with more counters than the computer.  This is a classic & fast moving game.

 

           

          B1.    Frog Hoppers Game               

                         Classic solitaire puzzle in which all the pieces must be removed except the last.

 

            B2.     Trapping the Mouse Puzzle

                         Standard trapping game.

 

          B3.     Mine-Sweeper Puzzle

                    Classic mine-sweeper game.

 

          B4.     Tricky (not serious) IQ Quiz

                    Good for a few laughs only once (or twice at best).

 

          B5.     Guessing Someone’s Number

                    Simple formula for guessing a chosen number.

 

          B6.     Bouncing Ball Game

                    Simple dexterity game.

 

          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     

                          If you wait a little a piece of the picture will be cut and exchanged with another piece and then 12 guys

                          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.

 

          C2.     The Physicist’s Creed
                    
Lots of big words and concepts from physics - trying to be something funny.

 

            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.