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	ENTROPY Play Entropy against the computer. ***********************************************    Top quality ENTROPY board games    now available. Click here for details. ***********************************************		SEARCHLIGHT MAZES Ten mazes intended to be more demanding than earlier ones. Illuminate an intruder on the company premises.
	BLACK BOX + NEW: Play BLACK BOX + here.		HEXAGRAM PUZZLE A tiling puzzle with 19 mathematically derived patterns. See the gallery pages with links below the applet for some superb solutions.
	SNAKEPIT MAZES Ten tough REVISED snakepit mazes. Get Indiana Jones safely across a room full of snakes.		LEAPFROG PUZZLE An ancient puzzle with eight frogs.
	FREDDY FROG Guide Freddy Frog in visiting every rock in his pool in the shortest time.		TORUS TWISTER Rubik cube (sort of) on a torus.
	FROGGO A race game against the program. This is essentially Billabong (see the Publications page).		GRID POKER Make good Poker hands in rows and columns of a 5x5 grid.
	FIND QUIGLEY An elaboration of the famous 'Knights and Knaves' puzzles.		SHEEPDOG PUZZLE Get all the sheep into their pen.
	GRAVITY MAZE Updated version (May 2007). I'm working to improve this.		HANGMAN 400+ of the best Hangman games with solutions and clues compiled by: Steffi Silbert (USA) David Parlett Stewart Quentin Holmes Eric Solomon
	DAIRY FARM PUZZLE Three tiling puzzles with a mathematically complete set of pieces. James Willson has proved that the maximum number of cows in a field is 23. His attractive '3 cows per field' solution is shown below the applet.		TRAFFIC LIGHTS MAZES Cross town to reach the vital meeting on time. Pray that the lights are not against you!
	QUIZL WORD PUZZLE NEW: 50 New cases of David Parlett's word puzzle.		DOUBLE OZ PUZZLE NEW: David Parlett's tough new placement puzzle.
	TRAVELLING SALESMAN NEW: Demo. of an algorithm for finding good sub-optimal solutions to the travelling salesman problem.		ONLINE POKER NEW: Click here to check out casinoguide's free online video poker game. Practice here before playing for real money at the casinos.