Puzzles
Java Puzzles
Click on one of the puzzles below to
run Java program (mostly by David Bagley (help in conversion to
Java by Sarat Chandran)). The X Manual Pages are written for the
X versions but may be useful to understanding the Java programs.
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Sliding Puzzles
For cubes, mlink, and barrel go to
menu and click on "Number" (a toggle), if you prefer looking at a
mandrill.
Try the
barrel puzzle, now with auto-solve! Also try
cubes, triangles, and hexagons. If you beat the score on
these puzzles, write out using "w", and send the data (cookie or
file) to me. I started a list (see "Triangles stuff and Hexagons
stuff" below). These puzzles and panex have preset starting
positions, the rest have random starting positions.
Some of these puzzles are very
difficult. Here is a list in order of complexity:
hexagons (corners unselected) (about
Kindergarten level)
triangles
panex (Tower of Hanoi option) (about
3rd grade level)
cubes
mlink
panex (Panex option)
hexagons (corners selected)
barrel
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Rotational Puzzles
The scalable version includes some
JavaScript and also uses cookies. This code handles resizing, which
may be browser dependent. Cookies are used for keeping track of
score and current position.
See
project notes for todo list and history.
Please let
me know if I left
out anything.
X Puzzles
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Manuals for xpuzzles, see tables above.
C/C++ Source Code for X and Windows
(xpuzzles 7.3.3, bzip2'd files)
C/C++ Source Code and Binary for
Windows (wpuzzles zip'd file, same source as above compiled with
MinGW).
Cubes stuff
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Triangles stuff
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Hexagons stuff
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Panex stuff
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Neat 4D puzzles (I did not write this stuff)
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Nteract4 A
4D Pocket Cube (2x2x2x2 in JavaScript)
For Tesseract, a 4D Rubik's Cube
(3x3x3x3) with auto-solve for Macintosh contact:
Charlie Dickman.
Send comments/suggestions to:
A puzzle
maintainer
Maintainer's Home Page
Last Revised: 3 February 2008
