- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0. Go in Pieces! — Puzzles are universal things. A 3-year old child loves playing her big colorful 3-piece puzzle, a 30-year old woman spends hours and days with a 3-thousand piece puzzle of a Scottish castle. A big colorful puzzle is a great present. However, a «personalized» (i.e. unique) puzzle is also stylish. Just imagine giving your girlfriend the cool puzzle, which, when solved, becomes a memory photo with you and her in some romantic…
- ABLsudoku - Solve Me, If You Can! — The Sudoku game is often claimed to be invented in the USA or in Japan in the middle of 80th. Though, sometimes we may hear about Leonhard Euler’s «Lating Square» (XVIII century) and other historical mathematical puzzles. Despite its unclear history, the Sudoku puzzle is a really brain-breaking quest played all over the world and being an obligatory part of many newspapers. The company with…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.2, I'm Fallen Into Pieces — There is common multipurpose design technique that allows making some obvious things less trivial: An effect of Puzzle. Puzzles are commonly drawn as images «cut» into several fancy-form pieces. In the real world, puzzles are very popular among both children and adults. In terms of computer design, a puzzle image is rather a «symbol», but very commonly used. Still, how can you create a realistic-looking and yet not…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- Cube Puzzle, Rubik' Big Brother — If you’ve caught the time of Rubik Cube’s popularity, you are very likely to have seen folks playing with it like if that was the only thing they could grab in the endless universe. But the time flew by, and the toy that used to keep folks captive magnificently was no longer interesting: all puzzles were solved, and the mind was seeking for something new. Well, what new or unexpected could be possibly pulled out…
- HashPass 1.6, Password Problem Solved Entirely — The password creation and storing problem still seams to be the greatest security hole in a diversity of systems. If you choose a password which is easy to remember, it will typically be something easy to guess and pick; if you generate or invent some hard password, you’ll never remember it and will either make it easy to be stolen (sticky note on your monitor) or you will have…
- 15 Puzzle: Endless Fun of Mind Rating — No one knows for sure when and where the 15 Puzzle has been invented. But the invention was truly a success: it’s hard to think of any other puzzle game that has gained such popularity. The whole world, both children and adults, have been playing it even these days. The idea of the game is to sort the 15 randomly placed numbered square pieces in the ascending order without taking them out of the 16-cell box. But although…
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