Tag: PUZZLE

Fellow puzzle fans, Google has brought us joy. The engine's newest venture, A Google a Day, asks cunning participants not to use the knowledge they have but rather the knowledge they can unearth with Google search to solve riddles. Much like crossword puzzles (possibly your author's favorite pastime), the questions ask the solver to change the way they think. For today's riddle, searching "two ...

Google loves to make people solve puzzles. The company often posts them in obvious places for all the world to see, so it was a bit of a surprise when Sylvain Zimmer, and a few of his co-workers at music site Jamendo, spotted an equation hiding in the background of one of the new Chrome OS marketing videos. Zimmer immediately started trying to decipher and solve the lengthy string of symbols and ...

With the advances games have made over the decades, we sometimes pine for the simple, logical satisfaction of a puzzle game. 'Halo' is great, but we doubt people will be playing it decades from now -- unlike the head-scratchingly good 'Tetris.' Forget big budgets, cinematic storytelling and the whole games-as-art argument, and get down with some puzzling goodness. We've rounded up some of our ...

This October, game developer 5th Cell will release a brand new edition of the hyperactive word puzzle game 'Scribblenauts' for Nintendo DS. As Kotaku reports, the company released a trailer for 'Super Scribblenauts' at E3 yesterday, and promised "deeper levels," sharper controls, and, of course, "shiny new words." As any fan of the original knows, 'Scribblenauts' is unequivocally one of the most ...

Well, you can add one more thing to the long list of tasks that computers can complete better than a human: jigsaw puzzle solving. Taeg Sang Cho and his colleagues at the MIT aren't the first to write jigsaw puzzle-solving software; a Danish team wrote a program that was able to solve a 320-piece puzzle back in 2008. While the older program only worked on simple "cartoon-style" drawings with a ...

Lazy and inept gamers (with sophisticated programming and engineering skills, of course), have previously created robots and programs capable of solving 'Super Mario Bros.' and Sudoku puzzles. Now, Lithuanian high school senior Andrius Sutas, incorporating a "layer-by-layer" algorithm, has apparently constructed a robot that can successfully solve that classic king of frustration: the Rubik's ...

Not all video games are bad for you. In fact, most video games actually engage different parts of your brain to help develop logic, decision-making, mental speed, and even creativity. Now, a new trend in gaming called "brain games" aims at actually training your noodle to help you improve your mental facilities. Problem is, many of these games require some sort of site subscirption fee or even ...