In the last weeks I played around with an old generator for sudoku puzzles I developed years ago.. I cleaned up some old classes and changed the output format to a new image representation with a higher resolution that can be used for books and...
Sudoku Reloaded: New Challenges (Part 1)
There is more to discover in the Sudoku universe! The Sudoku is a well known and loved daily brain training practice for a lot of people. Some newspapers and magazines publish regularly new puzzles in all kinds of skill levels. Solving these puzzles is a...
Better Memory: A Font to Remember
We all are forced to learn a lot of facts to keep up with our work and life. Some good learning methods have been published in the last years: Mind mapping, flashcards or repeating, just to mention some. Every body has to find the right...
BrainBrix – The different Fields Types
The different Fields Layouts In the first article you learned the basic rules and how to solve BrainBrix exercises. In this second part shows the wide range of possible challenges. The most exercises of Sudoku provide a field layout of 9 columns and 9 rows. If...
How to Create a Mind – Book Review
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Ray Kurzweil shows the newest results of selected neuroscience research and gives a concepts of reverse-engineering the brain with a focus on neocortex neural architecture for pattern recognition. He presents the building blocks of...
BrainBrix – New kind of Brain Teasers
What is BrainBrix? BrainBrix is a new type of brain teaser, which differs from all other well-known types such as Sudoku. The basic rules are easy to follow: There is only one rule! The BrainBrix rule The classic brain teaser consists of groups of seven...
Cubiques – Review
The main character of Cubiques is a red cube which main objective is to move through all tiles on each level. Cubiques brings you a collection of nice puzzles with a minimalistic and incredibly beautiful environment. It’s a relaxing game, that is loaded with calming music...
Linedoku – App Review
Linedoku provides a wide set of different exercises but all have to do something with connecting elements or drawing lines or paths. The usability is quite good and every challenge is explained with an introduction that is good to understand. The design is good and...
Unpuzzle – App Review
The goal of the exercises in the app Unpuzzle is to remove all pieces of a puzzle in the correct order. The player can remove a piece of a puzzle if the jigsaw piece is not blocked by or connected to an other piece. The...
Merged – Review
Merged is an addictive puzzle app for iOs and Android operating system. The user has to place piece on a board that have to match by colur and signs. If three or more similar pieces match they will be merged to the next higher type...