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The Association of Game and Puzzle Collectors (AGPC) is the preeminent international organization for collectors and researchers who share a common interest in the history and preservation of games and puzzles of all sorts. AGPC members range from novice collectors to some of the world's foremost experts on games and puzzles and their history. Members may not be collectors at all, but may represent museums, game manufacturers, publishers, and research institutions. AGPC members collect from just a few games to several thousands of games or puzzles, and their collections cover a wide variety of themes. Whether your interest is primarily in games or whether it centers on related pastimes such as puzzles, tops, blocks, toys, or marbles, the AGPC offers you many opportunities to network and broaden your knowledge and your collections. Their website with its extensive archives is a treasure trove of references and member interactions.Robert Abbott's Logic Mazes let you play online to match wits against the master maze designer. Bob also has a book of maze challenges you can order. His latest designs are his "Alice Mazes", named for Alice in Wonderland who kept changing size. In these mazes, the distance you can move keeps changing. Try 'em! Bob also has a nice little page about Kate's visits with him in Jupiter, Florida.
Abstract Strategy Games is Jose Diaz's passionate encyclopedic collection of information on all the abstract games known, listing names, inventors, year published and other known details. The mission of this site is to serve as a tool for the true game preservationist — the collector. If you have information on any games not listed, do let Jose know.
Age of Puzzles is "a colorful journey through endless patterns of quick wits" and is being built as part of an extensive puzzle-book-web project. It will also include a printed book, being written chapter-by-chapter, to make a comprehensive mosaic of puzzles invented by different people in different times and places. We applaud this creation and labor of love of Serhiy Grabarchuk, himself a talented puzzle designer whose works form part of the website, along with a wealth of interactive features, links, puzzle sources, and intelligent discourse. Beautiful graphics, smooth navigation, fascinating information make it a pleasure to spend time there. Visit often, hang out, play, watch it grow.
"Aha! Puzzles" is Lloyd King's jolly, jazzy, puzzle-filled website, with links to a huge number of interesting puzzle sites world-wide, and many other fascinating places dedicated to art, books, creativity, games, math, tests, and the beautiful Puzzle Wizards' webring. New puzzles and riddles are added almost daily. Lloyd generously includes answers. His totally reworked, very cool website is a joy to traverse, with even some background music and a welcoming speech in Lloyd's ever so suave British accent.All Games List is a growing directory of all games, in many diverse categories, on the Internet. Created and built by C2A Enterprise, founded in 1982 by an Ecuador-based group of game lovers and geniuses. They are now expanding to both online and offline markets. Want to find a game? Try here first.
Archimedes' Lab puzzle site was founded by Gianni A. Sarcone and co-partner, Marie J. Waeber, as a training, facilitation and consulting company specializing in improving and developing creativity. The site is rich in a benevolent and wise philosophy as well as in original hands-on thinking games to teach mathematical applications. Their educational manipulatives have great visual impact, involving colors and shapes. They also publish a journal, Archimedes, full of all kinds of puzzles and activities. Plan to spend some time in Archimedes' Lab; there's much to see. In English, French and Italian.
Astro-Logix has a website gallery with cool animations of a wealth of three-dimensional shapes that can be built with its ingenious new construction kit of tubes and joints. Looking great. Rob Strange is the creative force behind this British company. You can order the kits for endless hands-on fun in home and school.JDB Games is the brainchild of J. David Barnhart. This young venture is dedicated to developing and selling a new generation of multi-dimensional, abstract strategy boardgames. The two innovative games they show currently range in price, construction, and complexity, from a colorful cloth board design you can wear as a scarf ("GRYB") to a finely crafted space-age sculpture that plays in 3-D ("Time Vectors"). Fascinating.
The Big Game Hunter is Bruce Whitehill's fabulous games website of over 1000 photos of games and puzzles, and the people who play them, collect them, make them, and sell them. Includes the monthly "All in the Game" newsletter and over 75 links to great sites in the games and puzzles world. Bruce is one of the world's foremost historians on American games, and author of the book, Games: American Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992, the most authoritative work on the history of American game companies. Bruce is also the founder of the Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors. Whatever you want to know about games, Bruce is the one to ask.
BumbleBeagle is Bob Harris's great playground of puzzles he has created and developed, from interactive Squiggly Sudoku puzzles and word puzzles to polycubes, games, mazes and an annual Christmas puzzle. Browse and play, and check out his experimental recipes. Bob's articles have been published in many magazines, and he has a book out on Squiggly Sudoku.
Card Games is the hugely encompassing website of John McLeod, including descriptions of hundreds of card games throughout history, with links to manufacturers, tournaments, and sources.
Comblo is a great site for playing with blocks — form squares with tetrominoes and try for best scores. John Ewen has developed a splendid series of challenges, with daily best scores posted. Registration is free, and you can receive new games continuously.
Crafty Puzzle Company is James Cole's small family-run busines in Bristol, England, offering their own handmade teak wood "collapsible" puzzles for the whole family. These puzzles will test your IQ and lateral thinking skills, and look beautiful besides. And James provides many links to other puzzle and game resources.
CubicDissection.com is Eric Fuller's lush site showing his private collection of puzzles, links, a workshop, and even some puzzles for sale.
curiouser.co.uk, "Home of the Paradoxical," is Rob McMullen's whimsical and, well, curious, website of puzzles, games, illusions, tricks, paradoxes, quotations, poems and much much more. Ignore the banners. You can also read part of his book, Stranger and Stranger, on his site. Curious...
The Worlds of David Darling is an award-winning encyclopedic collection of knowledge about every facet of the world, mathematics, and the cosmos, by a British astronomer-author. Dr. Darling's worlds include games and puzzles, with a rich reference to all the major historical and recreational mathematics themes, done with the thoroughness of a scholar and the charm of a Renaissance man. Allow yourself to get lost in the lore. Anything you want to know about, look here first. He's the Martin Gardner for the 21st century.DeepFun.com is Bernie De Koven's deeply knowledgeable site and weblog about the fun of games and other aspects of life. An author, speaker, thinker and kindly viewer of the human scene, Bernie is an institution all by himself. Browse his articles, resources, reviews, blog and calendar of events. Seriously fun.
Amby Duncan-Carr's website provides links to some of the most interesting and useful resources for gifted children, homeschooling, math, Mensa, cats, Website tools and search engines, brainteasers and puzzles, and many other nifty topics. Very easy to navigate, well-arranged and annotated.
Elusive Cube is the work of Frank Zubek, an amazing 44-piece cluster of polyhedral dissections that join with magnets to form many shapes. Incredibly, the magnets are omni-connective. Frank's page is just one section in Hop David's huge site of tessellations, polyhedra, spirals, fractals, and a math art gallery.Enginuity is Andy Daniel's site of his original game creations. Cards, dice, abstract strategy board games, family games...all very cool, nicely made, and several award winners in the line-up.
David Eppstein has a rich Recreational Math page, covering everything from polyominoes, dissections, combinatorial game theory, number theory, a "Geometry Junkyard" and links to many interesting publications and websites.
