National Puzzle Day – January 29
National Puzzle Day is Friday, January 29. Celebrate by solving or creating a puzzle!
What puzzles would you recommend solving in honor of National Puzzle Day? Let us know in the Puzzlehead forums.
Information, resources, stories and fun for puzzle solvers and creators
Pages
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
- Paula Renee on The Crossword Puzzle Cruise
- Fryguy9 on Registration is no longer required in order to post a comment
- ePeterso2 on Registration is no longer required in order to post a comment
- a1dunham on Puzzlehead Now iPhone-Ready
- a1dunham on Puzzlehead Now iPhone-Ready
Tags
Anagram brain-teaser car-repair cars cipher ciphers cliff-johnson codebreaking construction contest crossword cryptic cryptography david-blaine geocaching geography google health kenken lateral-thinking lessons logic-problem mathematics music mysterious-stranger npr online-tools Organizations ps101 publication Publications puzzle-types puzzlehunt Resources Solving states sudoku tips-and-tricks unsolved-mysteries video web-site will-shortz word-lists wordplay youtubeCategories
Archives
- Events for Puzzlers
Coordinate Verifiers
- Certitude Coordinate Checker
- Evince Coordinate Checker
- GeoCheck Coordinate Checker
- GeoChecker Online solution verification for geocaching puzzles
Events
- American Crossword Puzzle Tournament The nation’s oldest and largest crossword competition
- Mind Games from Mensa American Mensans get together to play and rate the latest board and card games over one spring weekend.
- MIT Mystery Hunt An annual puzzle competition held at MIT each January. The competition challenges each team to solve a large number of puzzles which lead to a coin hidden somewhere on-campus.
Organizations
- The National Puzzlers League “The World’s Oldest Puzzlers’ Organization”
Publications
- Blaine's Puzzle Blog
- Crossword Fiend Amy Reynaldo’s blog and forums about crossword puzzles
- Fill Me In Ryan and Brian Do Crosswords (and blogs and podcasts, too!)
- Games Magazine The magazine for creative minds at play
- Merl Reagle Puzzle constructor
- Passion for Puzzles
- Podcacher Podcast Mostly about geocaching, frequently containing puzzleheaded goodness
- Puzzle News from Google (RSS feed)
- Puzzles & Answers Magazine A bi-monthly “puzzle hunt” magazine featuring a series of interconnected puzzles leading to a single solution
- Puzzlinks (retired)
- Wordplay The crossword blog of the New York Times
Puzzle Sites
- Car Talk Puzzler Starring Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers
- ePete's Bookmark List of Geocache Puzzles Worth Solving Puzzle caches I recommend
- Fireball Crosswords Peter Gordon’s (mostly) weekly online puzzles [subscription required]
- Geocaching.com The world’s leading site for geocaching, including puzzle caches
- KrazyDad's Puzzles
- New York Times Premium Crosswords (subscription required)
- NPR's Puzzle on the Air Play along each week on Weekend Edition Sunday
- Puzzlement Free daily and weekly puzzles from Shawn Kennedy
- Puzzles.com
- RedEye Puzzler | ChicagoNow
- The Griddle Free puzzles from David Millar
Solve-at-your-desk Puzzle Caches
Tools
- Barcode Basics
- CIA World Fact Book
- Crossword Compiler
- Cryptic Crosswords from Wikipedia
- Internet Anagram Server
- Internet Movie Database
- Judy's Tips on Solving a Logic Problem
- National Puzzlers Leage Cryptic Crossword Guide
- National Puzzlers League Solving Tools
- One Across Interactive crossword puzzle clue solver
- parmstro's Guide to Solving Puzzles
- Places Named Search through geographic and census data for names of people and places
- Purple Hell Riddle tools and other puzzle-solving resources
- Puzzlewiki A resource built for “paper-based” puzzle solvers and creators, especialy for participants in live puzzle hunt events.
- Rumkin Online Cipher Tools
- Simon Singh's Crypto Corner
- Sudoku Solver
- Waypoint Distance Calculator Handy because it uses the coordinate format used in geocaches
Copyright © 2009 · All Rights Reserved · Puzzlehead
1 comment
One reader suggested that we should celebrate by solving this:
http://moap.freehostia.com/
Leave a Comment