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Pentominoes: The Story of the 12 Pieces and Golomb

Pentominoes: The Story of the 12 Pieces and Golomb

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How We Build Pentomino Levels with Dancing Links

How We Build Pentomino Levels with Dancing Links

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How Hundreds of Puzzle Levels Are Generated and Checked

How Hundreds of Puzzle Levels Are Generated and Checked

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How We Guarantee a Mahjong Solitaire Board Is Solvable

How We Guarantee a Mahjong Solitaire Board Is Solvable

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Mahjong Solitaire History and How It Differs From Mahjong

Mahjong Solitaire History and How It Differs From Mahjong

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Building a Daily Word Ladder: BFS, Word Lists, and Picking Fair Puzzles

Building a Daily Word Ladder: BFS, Word Lists, and Picking Fair Puzzles

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Designing the rules for a zombie route puzzle: Undead Ends: Zombie Puzzle is out on iOS

Designing the rules for a zombie route puzzle: Undead Ends: Zombie Puzzle is out on iOS

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I built a cat-themed logic puzzle for the browser — no ads, no account, a new board every day

I built a cat-themed logic puzzle for the browser — no ads, no account, a new board every day

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Reverse-engineering a daily word puzzle: how the Pinpoint clue tiers actually narrow the search space

Reverse-engineering a daily word puzzle: how the Pinpoint clue tiers actually narrow the search space

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Solvable by Construction: Building a Level Generator That Proves Its Own Levels

Solvable by Construction: Building a Level Generator That Proves Its Own Levels

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Two New Games on SynerWorlds: a Colour-Lines Puzzle and a Vietnamese Fruit Match-3

Two New Games on SynerWorlds: a Colour-Lines Puzzle and a Vietnamese Fruit Match-3

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Why the Ladder Game (Amidakuji) Never Gives Two People the Same Prize

Why the Ladder Game (Amidakuji) Never Gives Two People the Same Prize

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The Week Eye is live: a free stereogram puzzle every Monday

The Week Eye is live: a free stereogram puzzle every Monday

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Generating a mirror-twin line puzzle: pair-aware pruning and a separator that was secretly a cell

Generating a mirror-twin line puzzle: pair-aware pruning and a separator that was secretly a cell

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How I make murder-mystery puzzles that can't be guessed (built by directing AI)

How I make murder-mystery puzzles that can't be guessed (built by directing AI)

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