Aaron's Puzzle Palace

Thinking about Puzzles

• ACME "Have You Tried...." guide

Puzzle Solvers

• Paint By Numbers/Nonogram Solver
• Links to tools for solving of various ciphers
• Substitution Cipher Solver
• Hal's Cryptogram Helper

Sites with lots of Puzzles

• The Grey Labyrinth - Puzzles, Discussions, Links, etc...
• World Puzzle Championship puzzles and information
• National Puzzlers' League
• MIT IAP Mystery Hunt - annual hunt with lots of VERY difficult puzzles. All the puzzles and solutions from recent years are online. Here is an index of puzzles.
• Univ. of Texas at Austin PuzzleHunt - 22 not that difficult but fun puzzles, only two seem to require campus knowledge.
• Puzzles by Quincunx
• Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge
• Individual Puzzles
  • "The Cards Know All" by Aaron D. Fuegi
  • "Quint's Travel Agency" (PDF) by Aaron D. Fuegi

General Puzzle Resources

• MIT Hunt Resources for Beginners (and experienced solvers too)
• Puzzazz How to Solve Codes Lots of data on codes, state info, Zodiac, and a bunch of other things.
• Puzzle Wiki site maintained by a Microsoft Puzzle Hunt team with lots of links to puzzle information.
• Puzzle Tools links at Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge
• Google - best general search site available.
• Also Google Labs - miscellaneous other search resources including Google Sets and Google Glossary
• TinEye Reverse Image Search

Word Puzzle Resources

• QAT - Find a word matching a given pattern. Incredibly versatile.
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - try here for Webster Power Searches
• Internet Anagram Server - nice, fast, powerful anagramming engine or Andy's Anagram Solver
• Crossword Puzzle help - must know length of output word needed.
• NPL Dictionary Search - also includes link to online Word Lists
• Guide to Solving Cryptic Crosswords
• Nutrimatic
• One Look
• One Across

Other Puzzle Resources

• Puzzle Reference Pages by Quincunx - codes, games, etc...
• Solving Tools of the NPL
• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Paint By Numbers puzzles
• Substituion Ciphers info - and links to pages excellently describing other standard ciphers
• Factor numbers
• Turn phone numbers into words based on 2=abc, 3=def, etc...

Puzzle Links Pages

• NPL Solving Links and Sites

"The Game" stuff

• Game Control Summits and other Team Snout links
• Las Vegas 2002 - Shelby Logan's Run
• Writeups by John Owens - writeups on various "Game"s, Mystery Hunts, etc...

Compiled by:
Aaron D. Fuegi (aarondf@bu.edu)

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