LINKS TO USEFUL SITES


BrainBashers


    Entries are in alphabetical order of domain name.

  • www.cigame.com    A site devoted to the analysis of the game design process with observations on the future of the art.

  • www.clickmazes.com    A beautifully presented site of original and interactive mazes created by Andrea Gilbert.

  • www.craftypuzzles.com   This is the site for a Bristol-based company producing beautifully made wooden burr puzzles many with curved surfaces.

  • www.creasoft.com   A splendid jigsaw puzzle site with on-line puzzles (drag and drop the pieces). You can also order 'hardware' jigsaws from them, and they offer a service creating jigsaws from your submitted pictures. logos, etc.

  • www.davidparlett.co.uk   This site is a must for all interested in the rules and history of card games. In addition David has written on the history of board games and has invented many, notably 'Hare and Tortoise'.

  • www.gamepuzzles.com   This is the site for KADON Enterprises who are probably America's principal producers of 'hardware' puzzles in plastics.

  • www.gamerbeef.com    A site for all gamers with PCs, XBOX etc. Includes comment, a forum, and much 'know how'.

  • www.gamesplayuk.com    A Bristol-based company with a wide range of colourful games and puzzles worth investigation. I gain the impression that some are looking for a manufacturer or publisher.

  • www.gamerz.net/~pbmserv   This site, run by Richard Rognlie, must be the premier 'Play by E-mail' games site and offers a very wide selection of the more intelligent games.

  • www.geocities.com/jhbest2000/DynamicMazes.html    Jorge Best has produced some interesting mazes incorporating tunnels opened and closed by 'switches' to be visited whilst traversing the mazes.

  • www.gpj.connectfree.co.uk    This is 'The Online Games and Puzzles Journal' run by George Jelliss. It presents a large number of mathematical puzzles and curiosities perhaps with a slight bias towards those with Chess associations. There are some playable games including my Thoughtwave.

  • www.joker-games.com    Joker's Java game site. Contains many attractive and original games in the maze category.

  • www.logicmazes.com   Robert Abbott's site. Robert is the renowned inventor of Eleusis, the inductive card game featured in Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American. He has a number of other excellent games to his credit and in recent years has become the authority on interactive mazes.

  • www.mathpuzzle.com   This large site run by Ed Pegg is packed with every conceivable mathematical problem, solved and unsolved. Highly recommended, even if you don't have a maths background.

  • www.mediamogul.biz   A site presenting, and selling, Susannah Lees's media trading game produced to a high standard.

  • www.nestorgames.com   A Spanish company marketing board games produced as easily postable (light weight) versions. One of my games, Corporation, (aka Lawmaker) is included.

  • www.pottypuzzles.co.uk   This is Frank Pott's page concerned in the main with mechanical puzzles. The site advertises various proprietary puzzles including some beautiful dissections and metal puzzles, discusses such puzzles, and includes several logic puzzles one of which is a very amusing example recovered from an old copy of the Sunday Times.

  • www.puzzlemochalov.com   This is a site which I had not heard of before. Leonid Mochalov is one of Russia's foremost puzzle designers and his site includes a wide variety of word, number, maze, polyomino, and burr puzzles. Be warned though that the English is somewhat macaronic, and some instructions appear to be in a foreign language - probably Russian, though my browser renders it unintelligible.

  • http://superdupergames.org   This is a non-commercial (free-play) site moderating asynchronous play between multiple players of mainly abstract games. A very large number of games are included.

  • http://G&P Index   This is an index to Games & Puzzles magazine.