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Post:   100
Your name:   manrash
Website:
Type your comment:   Great site :-)

Post:   99
Your name:   jr
Website:   http://www.internetnewsdaily.com
Type your comment:   cool site

Post:   98
Your name:   dude
Website:
Type your comment:   ur game sucks

Post:   97
Your name:   H. S. Teoh
Website:   http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/~hsteoh/megamorphix/megamorphix.html
Type your comment:   I was reading your page on possible ideas for future puzzles, and was intrigued by the possibility of an edge-turning version of the Pyraminx. Well, Ive posted the results of my investigation on the above URL. Let me know what you think.

Post:   96
Your name:   christa
Website:
Type your comment:   i LOVE your site!!! its SOOoooo fab!!!! and ive FINALLY solved my rubicks ufo THANKs! btw i came thru from tantrix

Post:   95
Your name:   konstantinos
Website:   http://www.olympicube.com
Type your comment:   Good work actually! be ready for the big cubes!

Post:   94
Your name:   Nagylaci
Website:   http://tablajatekos.hu
Type your comment:   Thank You!
http://tablajatekos.hu/uj2001/szolodilik.html
Congratulations!

Post:   93
Your name:   Jaap Scherphuis
Website:
Type your comment:   That link should of course be: http://pyva.net/eng/pc/rmaster.html (small typo). You can solve that puzzle with the techniques used in the Rotos solution.

Post:   92
Your name:   sema
Website:   http://pyva.net/eng
Type your comment:   Hi!
Thank you for the cool site!
May i suggest another link?
here is a downlowdable puzzle at
http://pyva.net/emg/pc/rmaster.html
:)

Post:   91
Your name:   Valerie
Website:   excel at web-ster dot com
Type your comment:   I bought an Instant Insanity block puzzle at a garage sale today. It is unopened in its original celophane wrap and was made by Products of the Behavioral Sciences in 1967 under Pat. Pending status. The patent on these puzzles was later bought by Parker b [rest of text lost - 255 char limit]

Post:   90
Your name:   YK
Website:   -
Type your comment:   I think this site is gr8!

Post:   89
Your name:   Bernhard
Website:   http://www.puzzlewood.de
Type your comment:   wonderful made website, for new wooden puzzles look at my website

Post:   88
Your name:   Arpad
Website:
Type your comment:   can anyone give me some information on getting a Square One or a Cube 21.
i am in Australia so maybe a mail order site or something ??
arspawn2 at yahoo dot com dot au
cheers.

Post:   87
Your name:   JOHN
Website:
Type your comment:   i love ur professor cube!!!!!!!
u want a great gears 4 it???????

Post:   86
Your name:   80ermann
Website:   http://cgi6.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=80ermann
Type your comment:   Only a true fan of all rubiks and 3-D-Puzzles can build such a perfect internet page! The images and descriptions and interactive games are lovely designed and a dedication to the spirit of the little wooden cube designed in the 70s - and all his varietie [rest of text lost - 255 char limit]

Post:   85
Your name:   Jaap Scherphuis
Website:   this one
Type your comment:   Sarah, I have nearly finished writing a Cmetrick page (with simulation) for my next update.

Post:   84
Your name:   Sarah
Website:   http://www.elogiq.com
Type your comment:   Wonderful site. We would appreciate if you could evaluate our new brain teaser we call: Cmetrick. We think you are going to like it. See http://www.elogiq.com

Post:   83
Your name:   Daniel McCollum
Website:
Type your comment:   Thank you so much for such a wonderful site. This is my favorite all around puzzle site, and I eagerly look forward to every update. Could you update the Megaminx page to say that the current Mefferts produced megaminx has 7 colors, with one being pink an [rest of text lost - 255 char limit]

Post:   82
Your name:   Jaap
Website:   http://www.rsiboek.nl
Type your comment:   Gefeliciteerd met je volhouden. Je site bestaat al heel lang en is nog steeds een prima bron van puzzels. Groeten Jaap Bosman

Post:   81
Your name:   Stefan Schwalbe
Website:   http://people.freenet.de/stschwalbe/ppuzz/index.html
Type your comment:   I like Your Page very much!

Post:   80
Your name:   Chavak
Website:
Type your comment:   It was a nice Rubiks cube you have posted. I have downloaded it, air to try it offline and get the hook of it. But do not know how to do it offline, anyway I will try

Post:   79
Your name:   Jae
Website:
Type your comment:   hey i have been trying to find square 1 to purchase it...but i have have been failing...i you have any suggestions please email me at jane_toader at hotmail dot com

Post:   78
Your name:   Cosmin-Coral
Website:
Type your comment:   Ive just discovered Tantrix, was looking for more info & puzzles - you have an excellent site here - the exception that proves the rule about Geocities sites ::).

Post:   77
Your name:   Carter
Website:   http://home.ec.rr.com/specialpuzzles/Index.htm
Type your comment:   Jaap,
I used your UFO solution to solve a Square-1 mod. After several false starts, I was finally able to make sense of Bram Cohens solution. Sweet! Thank goodness for your website! Best regards.

Post:   76
Your name:   jerry
Website:   none
Type your comment:   missing one:large cube composed of 27 smaller cubes (3x3x3) which are interconnected via an elastic cord such that the 3x3x3 cube can be unfolded into a linear string of the 27 smaller cubes. Set of smaller cubes linked pair-wise, some connections at righ [rest of text lost - 255 char limit]

Post:   75
Your name:   John T. Tillery
Website:   JTTillery at aol dot com
Type your comment:   This is a great web site because I love to solve puzzles. I keep a notebook of solutions. The problem is writing to be understood by the next person reading it. The UFO puzzle is one of those dilemmas. Does anyone have simpler start to solve this puzzle?

Post:   74
Your name:   Ralph Kulesza
Website:
Type your comment:   A very wonderful website. Ilove it
Thank you for your efforts. God Bless you. Ralph

Post:   73
Your name:   Christine Brooks
Website:   Avariato72 at aol dot com
Type your comment:   I was wondering if you could help me? Im trying to find some 80s puzzles as an anniversary gift for my husband. Im looking for whip-it tower puzzle, missing link, rubiks cube mini, reg. rubiks cube, pyramid and the snake. Please if you know where I can pu [rest of text lost - 255 char limit]

Post:   72
Your name:   Lawrence Rowley
Website:   lawbetrowley at sympatico dot ca
Type your comment:   I have made a tower with 7 disks for my daughter in law to illustrate the principle to her students. Very interesting.

Post:   71
Your name:   Walter Wojtyszyn
Website:
Type your comment:   Your website is wonderful and I think is one of the best in the Web about puzzles!!!!

Post:   70
Your name:   Greg Schmidt
Website:
Type your comment:   I have been writing puzzle solving programs for the past 20 years and I can say that your site is the pinnacle of puzzle solving bliss. Thank you for putting so much effort into this endeaver and making it available for all.

Post:   69
Your name:   Doug Speer
Website:
Type your comment:   Thank you! I have been working on this for 2 years now and have come close, but never able to finish it. It now looks beautiful, at least until my son wakes up and starts playing with it.

Post:   68
Your name:   Paul Bosley
Website:
Type your comment:   thanks for the pic of spinout. I am looking for the classic model.

Post:   67
Your name:   charlie(charl10439)
Website:
Type your comment:   Rainbow cube. Can you say EASY?!!!

Post:   66
Your name:   Jaap
Website:   This one
Type your comment:   I lost a few guestbook entries when I made the third guestbook archive page. Sorry! Please remedy this emptyness by adding your own comments!

Post:   65
Your name:   Gavin
Website:   http://www.google.co.jp
Type your comment:   This site is no good !!

Post:   64
Your name:   Esteban Ruiz
Website:
Type your comment:   Really good site, it has really helped me with my Rubik cube. My favorite part is the Java Script, itīs fully interactive and it helps a lot if you do not posses a cube of your own. Congratulations

Post:   63
Your name:   pauline hampson
Website:
Type your comment:   I adore all these puzzles.The soloutions are facinating too-so different from my own ways.Great pages

Post:   62
Your name:   Jim Liong
Website:
Type your comment:   AMAZING! Your knowledge, solutions and a willingness to share is highly commendable.
Q-What other non-rubic puzzles could be included? Have you taken part in WPC?

Post:   61
Your name:   John Louie
Website:   ramble.seismo.unr.edu
Type your comment:   Whew! The K-Ball manufacturers web site was useless, despite a solution being promised on the package. Thanks for everything.

Post:   60
Your name:   Santanu (smchari at rediffmail dot com)
Website:
Type your comment:   Do you have a actual Rubiks clock that you can lend?

Thanks.

Post:   59
Your name:   Scott Martin
Website:   bristolcity69 at hotmail dot com
Type your comment:   where in north america can I buy a Whip-it?

Post:   58
Your name:   George Huttlin
Website:   gahuttlin at netzero dot net
Type your comment:   This is fantastic. I stumbled on your site and for some reason lost it. I thought it was so great I spent the better part of an hour looking for the Rubiks Cube link that got me there in the first place. Im glad I found you again.

Post:   57
Your name:   Kazza
Website:
Type your comment:   hi, kewl website. tankx heaps for letting me use dis site it was very good and easy to read. it helped me heaps in completing the full tantrix puzzel (took me a while)
Anywayz tanx heaps
LoVe ~*KaZzA*~

Post:   56
Your name:   Max + Leo Peterse
Website:   http://www.het-website.tk
Type your comment:   Mooie site hoor Jaap!
Wel helemaal inhet Engels :)
Geen probleem hoor! En nu maar oefenen met die puzzels!

greetz Max + Leo

Post:   55
Your name:   sean
Website:
Type your comment:   thank you for the soloution
now i can get on with more trivial pass times

Post:   54
Your name:   Bob Friedhoffer
Website:   scienctrix.com
Type your comment:   This is a GREAT site. I cant imagine how long it took you to compile the information and then go on to make it all understandable.
You have done very well. Thank you.

Post:   53
Your name:   Paul Diamond
Website:   mr humble at prodigy dot net
Type your comment:   The most spectacular think I ever Witness.. I love it.Ill be looking at it for a long time to come.. Thank You

Post:   52
Your name:   Herbert Kociemba
Website:   http://kociemba.org/cube.htm
Type your comment:   I invested some time to make my Cube Explorer program see a cube with a webcam. This project is in a stage now, where I can release a beta version. Look at my page. I do not want to be in concurrence with speed-cubers which are of course much better, but

Post:   51
Your name:   Charlie (charl10439)
Website:
Type your comment:   Did somebody say puzzles! Well I did when I said puzzles are fun!!!

Post:   50
Your name:   Steve
Website:
Type your comment:   on the 2x2x2 java solver . . which side is considered the front . .Ive been trying to help a friend solve on of the starwars puzzles (which are hard enought to figure out which side belongs where) and have yet to solve to darn thing !!

Post:   49
Your name:   Markus Wenning
Website:   wenning.markus at gmx dot de
Type your comment:   thank you so much for your efforts, I couldnt figure out how to do the Square-1 for months until I finally got the last clues from this site. thank you very much. Great site.

Markus Wenning

Post:   48
Your name:   Sascha Burzynski
Website:   smburzynski at msn dot com
Type your comment:   Thnaks for this page!!! I had my Nintendo Barrel for 23 years and could not figure out how to solve it. So I drilled some holes into the top to take the screws out for a cheat. Thaks to this site I had hours of fun with the barrel and relived child hood m

Post:   47
Your name:   Ram Dayal Goyal
Website:   http://www.rdgoyal.freehomepage.com
Type your comment:   Congrats Jaap, This is best site on puzzles I have seen on entire web. Please include metal puzzles also to you huge wonderful digital library.

Post:   46
Your name:   Fred Bassetti
Website:   gwenfredb at attbi dot com
Type your comment:   Magnificent site, my compliments.

I will write to you later regarding your notes on polyhedra, where you mentioned my Flexagons.

Post:   45
Your name:   woody johnson
Website:
Type your comment:   what a wild cube i can do it but what a mind twister

Post:   44
Your name:   Oat
Website:
Type your comment:   Jaap - You have a great site. I have had a Square 1 my wife messed up for me 10 years ago that I just got out of a drawer and finally fixed. I have turned the site into a PDF, if you care for that.

Post:   43
Your name:   Gary Bell
Website:
Type your comment:   Given the fact that most Cube solutions use one of three basic strategies (Edges first,corners first,or layers),how is it possible for the authors to avoid charges of plagiarism? Surely they must discover the same basic sequences.

Post:   42
Your name:   Lisa
Website:   lisa_toth at mcgraw-hill dot com
Type your comment:   Any idea where I can purchase the Hungarian Rings.

Post:   41
Your name:   Ole Poul, Denmark
Website:   http://www.puslerier.webbyen.dk
Type your comment:   Dear Jaap,

I like your site and find it very usefull, while I have made a link to it at http://www.puslerier.k-nettet.dk

Admiring your growing collection,
Puzzling regards,
Ole Poul
Denmark
Puzzling

Post:   40
Your name:   Peter Elzner
Website:   http://elzner.info/peter/puzzle/puzzle3.shtml
Type your comment:   great site! I think I have a cube-like thing that you dont have yet. At least I couldnt find it in the graphical overview. you will find a picture on my site (see link - german text)

Post:   39
Your name:   Gary Bell
Website:
Type your comment:   An excellent site for both puzzle and nostalgia buffs! I well remember having many of thes 20 years ago.

Post:   38
Your name:   Arlen
Website:
Type your comment:   This web site is by far the best source for puzzle research and solutions. My mom, who is not computer literate, called me looking for solutions to a couple of the puzzles, but she did not know their names. Through your graphical page, I was able to insta

Post:   37
Your name:   Jaap
Website:   this one
Type your comment:   Thanks Ceecee, Ill fix that soon - s stands slice and for example Rs means R L, and Fs = F B. The c stands for cube and means the whole cube is turned instead of a single layer.

Post:   36
Your name:   ceecee
Website:
Type your comment:   I enjoy the patterns, but some of them contained the letters s and c, which werent mentioned in the notation section.

Post:   35
Your name:   Kate
Website:
Type your comment:   Thanks for your help, Ill keep my eyes peeled on the ebay site. If you do hear of 1 going I hope youll keep me in mine! kd_backonline at hotmail dot com

Post:   34
Your name:   Jaap
Website:
Type your comment:   Kate, your message was automatically truncated due to a 256 character limit. Sorry! On eBay you can sometimes find LOcubes.

Post:   33
Your name:   Kate
Website:
Type your comment:   Wow, I can see alot of brain time has gone in to making this site. Its great, I love it, however I have a problem! My bro has moved to Oz and taken his Lights Out Cube with him, HELP where can I get one? (Im getting withdrawal symptoms!!)
PLEASE email m

Post:   32
Your name:   Gilles Roux
Website:   http://grrroux.free.fr
Type your comment:   Unique website. Full of relevant information, clean layout, useful theory. Congratulations!

Post:   31
Your name:   Justin Timberlake
Website:
Type your comment:   Hey! nice web-site! Enjoyed lookin! I actually have some spare time to look and go on the computer but most of the time i wake up at in the morning and practicing and on the road. bye

Post:   30
Your name:   Bubba
Website:   lalala
Type your comment:   U should be able to actually play puzzles on ur website, but thats just my suggestion. ur website is kindda boring!

Post:   29
Your name:   trudy
Website:
Type your comment:   thanks for the solution to master I had a tough time with this puzzle

Post:   28
Your name:   francis from tuam
Website:
Type your comment:   i thought this site was a load of bull!

Post:   27
Your name:   Meeto
Website:
Type your comment:   Great!very interesting and nice site.It reminds me of my childhood,accompanied by the magic cube,Rubiks magic and some other interesting toys.

Post:   26
Your name:   Matthew
Website:
Type your comment:   Thank you for the mathemaical analysis and break down. My friends think Square-1 is just a toy, and that toys dont need math.

Post:   25
Your name:   Dan
Website:
Type your comment:   Oh my... Its like you write in a different language.

Post:   24
Your name:   Jaap
Website:
Type your comment:   Sharon,

The faded sides are the sides where the cubes touch each other when stacked in a tower. They are not visible, and their colour is unimportant. Only the 4 sides of the tower matter, which are the unfaded faces.

Post:   23
Your name:   Sharon
Website:
Type your comment:   Thanks for fading out the colours but I am still getting 2 reds in one of the turns. The solution shows 2 reds in the top position (along with one green and one yellow) Please help me

Post:   22
Your name:   Jaap
Website:
Type your comment:   Sharon, the Instant Insanity solution looks fine to me. I have faded out the colours of the non-visible faces so it might be easier to see it now.

Post:   21
Your name:   Sharon
Website:
Type your comment:   Neat site though the one I went to check out doesnt seem to work for me. Instant Insanity solution shown has 2 red showing in one position - what am I doing wrong??

Post:   20
Your name:   Ram Dayal Goyal
Website:   http://www.rdgoyal.freehomepage.com
Type your comment:   This is wonderful and excellent site i was impressed with. Being interested too much in puzzles and thoery of puzzles I never found such a huge collection at a single place than jaaps puzzle home.....congrats !!

Post:   19
Your name:   Volker Pohlers
Website:
Type your comment:   Thank you for this great page!

Post:   18
Your name:   Aaron Kynaston
Website:
Type your comment:   I love Rubiks cubes! I love the 3x3x3, and I just ordered a 5x5x5!

Post:   17
Your name:   Charlie(dude)
Website:
Type your comment:   I got the blackhole puzzle not long ago. It doesnt suck! Its easy!

Post:   16
Your name:   Rob
Website:   http://www.curiouser.co.uk
Type your comment:   Interesting

Post:   15
Your name:   Jaap
Website:   http://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles
Type your comment:   Sorry Lisa, There seems to be a 255 character limit to the guestbook comments, so the rest of your sentence got lost.

Post:   14
Your name:   Lisa
Website:
Type your comment:   This has been wonderful. I have had a bowl of puzzles that family members have had goes at for years, and as Im cleaning them up to put them into a new container, I have used your solutions to get them all back to their starting points. Having the picture

Post:   13
Your name:   Geoff Kendall
URL:   fritz_tc at hotmail dot com
Type your comment:   Great website! Its good to see so many puzzles in one hit. Almost tempted to look at the solutions. Never will!

Post:   12
Your name:   charlie
URL:   
Type your comment:   puzzles are grooooooooooooooooovy

Post:   11
Your name:   john young
URL:   
Type your comment:   your site is the ultimate cheaters guide. lol

Post:   10
Your name:   allanie gelan
URL:   
Type your comment:   for instant insanity; would it be easy to construct a similar puzzle using 5 or 6 cubes with 5 or 6 colors?

Post:   9
Your name:   Conrad Schlundt
URL:   dont have one
Type your comment:   You have far and away, the nicest looking graphical java scripts I have seen. The code for the couple I have looked at has been a clinic in programming.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Post:   8
Your name:   Don Fleischman
URL:   dufleischman at earthlink dot net
Type your comment:   I cannot express in words, nor anything else, what a wonderful site this is. My deepest and sincerest appreciation is offerred to you for sharing your knowledge. You have helped me to become a puzzle maniac! Thanks, Don Fleischman

Post:   7
Your name:   Garth Flint
URL:   gpflint at hotmail dot com
Type your comment:   I teach high school math. I plan to use some of your solutions. Thanks.

Post:   6
Your name:   Ally
URL:   http://members.lycos.co.uk/allycat2000
Type your comment:   NIce site! Helped a lot on those last 2 levels!

Post:   5
Your name:   alanyap
URL:   http://www.splitnmatch.com
Type your comment:   nice site! my site is about puzzle games too.

Post:   4
Your name:   rob mulderij
URL:   r.cmulderij at freeler dot nl
Type your comment:   mijn tijd is nu 44 seconden. voor peters black hole.

Post:   3
Your name:   rob
URL:   
Type your comment:   Wie weet een snelle methode voor peter's black hole? mijn snelste tijd is 48 seconden.

Post:   2
Your name:   Nelson Morales
URL:   nelsin at aol dot com
Type your comment:   Great job! I'd like to also tell you that I appreciate all the work you've done on putting this page together with all this valuable information (description, solutions, etc.) for puzzle maniacs like me.

Post:   1
Your name:   Jaap Scherphuis
URL:   http://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/
Type your comment:   Welcome to my new guestbook. Please add your comments about my site. Thanks!

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