Archive for the ‘Puzzles’ Category

Some fun Anagrams

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

I thought I’d just write a quick post with some fun anagrams. These are US English, and there is only one possible valid word to solve each of these.

Please DON’T post the answers as comments, because that will spoil it for other people.

6-letter anagrams:

SANKFR
NORTHW
GINNOW
RANSOB
CLINKE

Now, using the 9 letters in bold above, you get a 9-letter anagram:

GROINBROW

Give it a try – don’t worry if you find it hard, maybe you just need some training ;-)

All the words in this puzzle were taken from one TLS Brain Training anagrams game. Download it and try it out now. With thousands of words, you’ll never run out of anagrams again!

Tilt Mazes

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I’ll be adding a post about how these are generated in the articles section later, but this is just to get a taster of this new and exciting type of maze.

In a tilt-maze, like any maze, you have to get from the start to the target… Unlike any maze, the ball moves in a straight line until it hits a wall, and you have to stop on the target. Sounds simple? It really isn’t!

Get the blue ball from the start to the target...

Get the blue ball from the start to the target...

A bit of playing around, and you should find the correct route – but remember, when you play this puzzle interactively, if you make one mistake, you can’t necessarily go back! Here is a more complicated example:

Get the blue ball to the target...

Get the blue ball to the target...

If you want to play some of these mazes, TLS Brain Training has unlimited tilt mazes – as in it generates new ones every time you play!

Sources: I first became aware of this type of maze from Andrea Gilbert’s excellent Click Mazes site.