So come and talk to us there! The permanent link is on the homepage (look for the blue button). Any questions about our puzzles, praise and kudos are happily received. Join the conversation and look for special features from time to time. There will be no selling, only telling, in our Facebook lounge. For ordering please come to this main gamepuzzles site, where you'll find everything we make.

 
Introducing... Grand Bowties
The new, grown-up version of our little Bowties concept, with 24 unique cross-shaped tiles in every combination of 4 colors. Match colors in intricate ways—edge to edge, corner to corner, tip to tip. or all mixed together—to form the loveliest of patterns, play 4 games. With shimmering frosted highlights. More...

 
We have an applet to play Proteus!
A Proteus fan, Paul Nord, put his genius to work creating an app for your mobile devices so you can play our Proteus meta-game against a fairly smart computer. Get it now at the Apple store for under a dollar:   Michael Waitsman's Proteus — then enjoy this superb strategy game even when you don't have a worthy human opponent available. Paul's program looks beautiful and works great.

 
A new Mini-quiz!
After a few years' lull, we've once again added a new mystery quiz for your sleuthing pleasure. Thanks to our talented intern, Meshele Merchant, for suggesting it. How many of the hidden clues can you find? As always, we hide the answer in plain view, heh heh heh...

 
Pentacube Videos on YouTube!
Our friend and fellow polyomino lover, Donald Kern, has created four delightful, and impressive, videos showing the "complete" set (35 one-sided pieces) of pentacubes forming amazing and difficult solutions by Don. You'll want to see these more than once:

Regular 5x5x7 Block
Two-Sided Staircase
Jagged-Edge Block
Chichen Itza Pyramid

 

Special edition... Octiamond Stack
We're offering a special and very limited edition of the 66 octiamonds, styled as 6 separate "petals" that stack, each in a little tray. Only while they last. And only for the hardiest puzzle lovers and collectors—this one's a doozy, even with millions of possibilities. More...

MemorIQ  on Games 100 list for 2012
We're thrilled to have one of our unique new games continue to represent us on the annual Games 100 list, for year 2012. Their December 2011 "Buyers' Guide to Games" includes MemorIQ in the Puzzle category. Here is the review. And that's just two months after the nice write-up it got in the October 2011 issue. More...

  Our new flip catalog!
Now you can view our condensed 24-page print catalog with flippable pages or even as a slide show. The Flash program lets you zoom in, turn pages, and print out any page you like. Get an instant overview. Just click on the little cover page thumbnail at right.

 
Simply beautiful... Flashes of Life
We offer, as a small departure from physical puzzles, a book of breathtaking photography by Robert L. Steinberger, Ph.D., each image paired with a haiku by Kate Jones. Flashes of Life, The Flower Collection comprises over 100 pages of digital photography, poetic interpretations, and stories. It's the first in a series of volumes on different subjects by this great visionary whose legacy will live on in the "flashes of life" he captured during a lifetime of passionate photography. You can preview the whole book at the publisher's website, and you can also order it from us as a lifetime treasure, in the best archival quality and now also in a more moderately priced hardcover edition. More...

Our newest releases!
Click on thumbnails for larger views and full descriptions.
 

Tangramion^TM   Designed by Serhiy Grabarchuk, this fusion of Archimedes' Square ("Stomachion") and classic Tangrams has unique properties of its own. How many symmetrical and convex figures can you form? Find a new one and win a prize. Be creative in building picturesque figures for fun and as art. Endlessly entertaining and beautiful, yet not too easy.
 

Hopscotch^TM   A new, original polyform set—the polyhops—has pieces composed of 1, 2, 3 and 4 squares joined that plot onto a hopscotch grid (alternate rows are displaced by half a square). Solve an open-ended collection of strangely difficult figures, small to large, simple to complex. In short, we're crazy about it. Invented by Thomas Atkinson, developed by Kate Jones.

 

Fractured Fives^TM   This puzzle set is both making its debut to the world... and celebrating its 25th anniversary since Kate first designed it as a limited edition for puzzle collectors. This two-sided puzzle has multiple levels of difficulty as you match fractured pentominoes into complete images, or, on the flip side, connect a twisted web of rope segments. You'll be fit to be tied solving it.

 
Six Disks, with teddybears^TM   Our unique number/TicTacTo/magic squares set now has a Teddybears theme, with each cheerful bear sporting a number on his chest. Playing with numbers is great brain practice for kids and, come to think of it, even for grown-ups. The set also includes our surprising and original "Vertical Tic-Tac-To" strategy game for 2 players. Bears' poses and colors may vary. Nicely bagged, the Six Disks Bears make a fine and enduring gift and take-along entertainment.

 
MemorIQ^TM  (say "Memory Cue")   The 24 inlaid hexagonal tiles in 4 colors match in intricate ways to form a gallery of interesting figures, a total joy. Created by Zdravko Zivkovic, styled by Kate Jones. Hot News! MemorIQ was chosen for the Games 100 list and Buyer's Guide for 2012!

 

A+D+D+D^TM  (say "Add") — Portable instant fun with numbers and strategy. The storage pouch is the gameboard. Add numbers on dice for sums that get your pawns on the board in rows of 3, 4 or 5. Invented by Devin Stewart; puzzles by Kate Jones.
 

Silver Anniversaries

These games are celebrating their 25th anniversary of first publication, and most have been continuously in print, 1987-2012. See more of their stories in our historical notes.

• Royal Game of the Goose/Game of the Labyrinth — a Renaissance sensation in handcrafted wood
  
• Grand Tans^® — going portable in drawstring pouch
  
• Hexmozaix^TM — this year with silver and frosted colors
  
• Hexnut^TM— with brilliant new colors and silver touches
  
• Iamond Ring^TM — delicious complexity in gorgeous new colors
  
• Leap^®, softpack — a huge repertoire of challenges to keep you hopping
  
• Void^®, softpack — a favorite game goes portable
  
• Proteus^® — a quarter century of travel
  
• Renaissance Playing Cards — from Hungary, with our booklet
  
• Scoozie^TM — limited edition, just a few left
  
• Surprising Pyramid^TM — a visitor from the past, this year only
  
• Triangoes^TM — one of our grandest productions
  
• Triangoes Jr.^TM — always a bestseller, this year with silver touches
  

Other news:

Our Hexdominoes set now has its own independent website and domain name, with additional materials not found in our main website, such as the entire rule book and actual-size grids to print out for use with special figures. We plan to offer new challenges there eventually and maybe even some play-online features. A new little logo for it is on the bottom of the homepage. And check out the awesome new designs we've found for this amazing set.

The rule book for the venerable Tan Tricks series has been published. If you acquired any part of this trilogy somewhere in the past 24 years, and did not receive the book, please email us to request the book. Please include your current ground address.

A highly condensed printable catalog has been updated and is available online as three .pdf files. It has 24 standard pages plus an order form, in full color, although it works just fine printed in gray. Feel free to download as much of it as you want, and you're welcome to print it out for Web-deprived friends, too. This catalog can also be viewed online with flippable pages.

Have you checked out our Great Wall, a huge billboard of thumbnails behind the right margin of the home page? Look for the scroll bar at the bottom and pull it to the right to see the full line-up. Scroll down to see the lower half. Click on thumbnails for larger views.

Old but still good news:

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Here's a recap of all the gamepuzzles added to our website recently and in the past year, in case you missed their first announcement.   Bowties .... ChooChooLoops .... Hexdominoes .... Q-Bix .... A+D+D+D .... MemorIQ .... Hopscotch .... Fractured Fives .... Six Disks, Bears .... Tangramion .... Octiamond Stack ....

Blooper Bounty — This is a standing offer:  we'll send a small prize to the first person who advises us of a mistake in this website, whether a typo, broken link or other goof. Each blooper gets a separate prize. Email us and provide your ground address, so we can mail you your prize. And thanks!

Our hot-link icons are listed, along with some surprises and hidden prizes, for those of you who care to read directions for getting around this place. For the others, there's always logic, intuition and serendipity.