Puzzle Literature, instructions, books, etc....

[Sipper25]

Thanks all for the great info. My daughter and myself have desided to give the soma cube a go for our first puzzle

thanks again
douglas

[Canuck]

  Here's another link to famed puzzlemaker Allan Boardman's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Projects-Woodworkers-Allan-Boardman/dp/1933502118/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239981066&sr=1-4#

I now have this book now and highly recommend it, Allan's work is top notch!!

[MarkMc]

Download a copy of Stewart's Puzzle Craft books. Both the '85 and the '92 versions can be found in pdf format at http://www.puzzleworld.org/PuzzleWorld/art/articles.htm.  Here you can find some easy to make puzzles like pentominoes, Coffin's Half Hour, and several other puzzles based on cubes.

[RKB]

От игры к знаниям (pronounced as 'Ot Igry k Znaniyam' and to be translated: 'From Games to Knowledge'): maybe not of general interest, but a 'nice to know/have' Russian book by Efim Markovich Minskin the author of 'Pionerskaya Igroteka' (cf. Stewart Coffin's 1985 edition of Puzzle Craft). In fact the contents of both these books are pretty much the same:

Download the book (ZIP file) at http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/M/MINSKIN_Efim_Markovich/_Minskin_E._M..html#02
Of course you can download the other book as well, but that one is more about outdoor games and contains very few puzzles.

However you'll need a DJVU reader to be able to 'read' them. So download a suitable desktop viewer here: http://www.djvu.org/resources/

[RKB]

Sliding Piece Puzzles by Edward Hordern: Out of print for many years now, but still 'the bible' for all sliding block puzzle enthousiasts. Extremely hard to find and if you ever come across a copy be prepared to pay some $300 (or much more).

The good news is that you can download a PDF version here: http://morefreeebooks.net/Games_related/Hordern---Sliding-piece-puzzles_185.html

[cubefan]

Hi RKB

my anti spam programm warns for this website;

regards
cubefan

[RKB]

Hi RKB

my anti spam programm warns for this website;

regards
cubefan

Which one?

I tested both and didn't have any problems.

[RKB]

I converted this one to PDF and made it (temporarily) available for download: http://users.telenet.be/RKB/Downloads/Ot%20Igry%20k%20Znaniyam%20(Efim%20Minskin%201987).pdf

Beware! The file will only be online as long as I do not need the webspace for other stuff.

[gibell]

HELP!  It's all in Russian!!  Can you please upload the translation as well??

Just kidding!    Fascinating looking at all the diagrams!  Thanks for making this available. 

[RKB]

HELP!  It's all in Russian!!  Can you please upload the translation as well??

If I had to translate the book, it would become a matter of "dovyeryai, no provyeryai !" * 





* Trust, but verify !

[RKB]

For absolute beginners... and (very) hard to find: Puzzles to Make by Eric Kenneway:

Download (PDF): http://users.telenet.be/RKB/Downloads/PUZZLES%20TO%20MAKE.pdf