Doris was unveiled at the 8th Gathering for Gardner in Atlanta the end of March, with great presentations by its inventor, Zdravko Zivkovic, and our co-explorer, Toby Gottfried, whose computer program and ingenuity tracked down the most unusual solutions and their sometimes unbelievable numbers of solutions. The theme of the Gathering was the number 8, and Doris's octagonal tiles were right on that wavelength. Zdravko, Toby and Kate had spent a couple of dizzying months emailing ideas, questions and discoveries back and forth from Serbia to Florida to California. It all peaked when the guys got on their planes for Atlanta and Kate drove up from Miami. The private world premiere edition of 10 sets with their lavish full-color books sold out in a day, and we now offer a public first edition of 10 special sets with the full-color books on DVD. More....

Pearl Fisher is the brainchild of Ferenc Palinkas, a profusely creative Hungarian IT engineer. Thanks to email, brainstorming around the planet between Budapest and Miami could proceed 24/7. We are very proud to present this uniquely challenging strategy game. Ferenc and his associates have also worked up an online version that lets you take on the computer at various levels of difficulty. Our handcrafted wood set invites play by two humans. This is a game you'll want to play many, many times. Move pearls and shells on the board, uncover the right pearls to score (if you can remember where they are!). More....

Speaking of the 8th Gathering for Gardner in Atlanta at the end of March, we've just added a write-up and descriptions of the tricky puzzles Kate prepared for the event, plus adventures. More...

After almost ten years of development and thought, we introduce Diamond Star, a complex and sophisticated tiling set with incredible properties of creating optical illusions. If you are not intimidated by deep challenges, and if prevailing over elusive puzzles is a source of pride for you, Diamond Star will be a transcendental experience. It is an art object as well, with its own easel. Look into its intricate overlapping star pattern—now you see it, now you don't. Create many designs with your own wits and perspicacity. Includes dozens of puzzle figures and a strategy game of pawn movement for two and three players. More...

Congratulations to Karl Wilk of Ontario, Canada, for winning the Gamepuzzles Annual Pentomino Excellence award for 2007 for his amazing polyomino construction, The Pentomino Clock.

Manoover and Gemstones among 100 best games! Our two recent games have been selected by Games Magazine for the list of the top games for 2008. These unusual and beautiful boards are in the classic Kadon tradition of aesthetics plus originality, and their friendly competitive strategies are unusually challenging. You'll find yourself thinking in whole new ways. You'll be very pleased to share these with family and friends.

We call it Pseudo-Coup, our interpretation of the 81-number puzzle craze, Sudoku, done in colors. We even created a couple of multi-player games to extend the play value. Now we've added two delightful new games to the repertoire, invented by Henry Kwok:  Henry's Houses and Pseudo-Go. They're fascinating and thought-provoking strategy games for two players on the 9x9 board. A third game by Henry, Sumodoku, is posted as a bonus. Check them out.

Fox Blox, our new collaborative language game, at first seems a departure from our usual geometric and math-based themes. Players roll four alphabet dice and use the letters on top to start words that end up creating a rhyme. Like a puzzle made of words, Fox Blox is a cross between Jabberwocky and Dr. Seuss. All players can contribute, though the "editor" whose turn it is gets to choose. All participants are winners. All you need is imagination and the 4 Fox Blox — our newest "pocket" game for any number of players.

A third design has joined our guest showcase featuring innovative polyform sets by French puzzle explorer, Jacques Ferroul. We make all three of these puzzles by special order for his visitors as well as for our own. Jacques' website provides all the puzzle challenges for these sets, free to download, so we supply only brief leaflets with them.

• His Poly-Spidrons^TM is an intricate set of 54 shapes made of combinations of triangles and spirals, based on the Spidron^TM concept of Daniel Erdely, and Jacques' webpage for these shows a wealth of beautiful and difficult, though solvable, designs.
  
  
• Jacques' second design, Tetrapentos, has the tetriamonds and pentiamonds (brothers to our own Mini-Iamond Ring) filling a hexagon with 5 spare triangles. Jacques has worked out a large collection of delightful and stylish designs for these and presents them on his website. We offer Tetrapentos in a tray and as a pocket edition.
  
  
• Jacques' newest design, Stelo, (esperanto for "star") forms a star and dozens of other beautiful designs with 12 of the simpler pieces from Poly-Spidrons. Interestingly, doubled-size models of the Stelo figures can be solved with the full Poly-Spidrons set. Jacques has dedicated Stelo as a memorial for his grand-niece Maïlou.

• www.tactilegraphics.us is an entrance to Tactile Graphics and Tilings and Designs.
• www.playable-art.com is an entrance to Tilings and Designs, Abstract Strategy Games and Edgematching.
• www.polyformpuzzles.com is an entrance to the Essential Polyforms section and Polyominoes and Polycubes.
• www.thelifeofgames.com leads to our journal.