the Games and Puzzles Journal — ARCHIVE

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This archive lists topics that have appeared in Volumes 1 and 2 of the Games and Puzzles Journal. The ultimate aim will be to present them as a consolidated treatments of particular subjects, as has been done with knight's tours and chess variants. Some of the subjects first appeared in the Journal's predecessor Chessics and its companion journal Variant Chess.

Knight's Tours: See: Knight's Tour Notes


Variant Chess: See: British Chess Variants Society


Grid Dissections: Crossing the parallels, Circular saws, Polyhexes, Pentominoes, Squaring the rectangle, Heptiamonds, Geometric jigsaws, Golden sequences, Gnomonics, Jigsawpuzzle puzzle, Dissections in FCR, Hexominoes, half a cake.

Coloured dissections: Chequered chessboard dissections, Super-domino tangram, Bodged chessboards, Awkward ominoes, Art of the state, Chessboard speaks.

Three and more dimensions: Squaring the cube, Chinese cross, The 6-D cube


What's in a Game? Games history and theory:


Dominoes: Threes & Fives, Odd Primes, French & English Quadrilles, Patterns


Cards: Carpet squares, Space Rummy, Carpet Rummy, Parita, Psychological Jujitsu, Complete information card games, Blackmarkit, 2-5-8-J-A, Soccer as a card game.

Card Patience and Puzzles: Royal carpet, Concertina, Bridge Auctions, Navy, Strategy, Car park.


Mathematical Games: Morris, Hypercube, Ringing the changes, Battle of numbers, Nim, Nimmity, Leapfrog, Circular board, Fanorona, L-game.

Draughts variants: Deep draughts, Double draughts, Quirk, Interlock, Two-colour checkers, Directional draughts, Kentish draughts.


Transitions: Sliding Block Puzzles, Fifteen puzzle, Sliding magic squares, Get my goat, Sopwith manoeuvres, Alphabetical cube, ABC sliding puzle, Letter zigzags, Leapfrog solitaire, Trapezeloyd, Zigzag square solitaire.


Geometry: Triangular billiards, Star points, Cross point, 4-gon conclusion, Centres of a triangle


Arithmetical: Cryptarithms, Enumerations, Multiplication table, Integral part formula, Four Rs, Permutable primes, Probably deranged, Balanced and unbalanced magic squares, Counting derangements, Exponentiation, Circular primes, Incirculable sets, Hole in my bucket; First, last and only numbers; Mersenne primes, Fibonacci and recurring decimals, Calculator keyboard curiosities, Palindromic cubes.


Chessboard Arrangements: Satin squares, Solitaire queens, Bisatins.


Logic: Probable equality, Wheels within wheels, Logical grocers, Sawseeing, Saw saying, Lunar calendar, Exchangeable operations, Singular riddle.


Letter puzzles: Change-chains, Lifebelts, Alpha pairs, Code words, Prime words, Permutable words, Unscrabbleable words, Clock words, Dart words, Elementary words, Are you game?, Pronounceable codes, Word-ladder anagrams, Shuffle-link, Edinburghisms, Autological anagrams.

Wordplay: Structural analysis of verse, Rhyme schemes, Mnemonics for pi, Self-documenting sentence, Cryptic crosswords, Cryptic clueing, Crossword puzzle patterns, Uncommon english, Tangletongue, Simply strange, Language simulation problem.


Mathematical art: Pair trees, Polygrams, Strewberries; Stars, Asterisks and Atoms; Corals, Chessboard mosaics, Rune games, Alphabetical topology, Number symbols, Chess lettering, Reversed keyboard and revised stave notation.


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