This is our "what's where" overview and "grand central" locator. Red squares are the major topics linked from the Home page (we call it the Index page). They appear here in about the same order as in the Index, with their individual contents also itemized. Comments in parentheses are annotations. Every link has somewhere to go. Within product sections you'll find many further highlight pages linked from individual products. Those are too numerous to list here.

"Our Logo Movie" (Cool Flash animation of pentominoes forming our name and multiple versions of our W logo, linked from the large yellow logo at top of Index page).

• A miniature sampler (no Flash required)
• Four other miniature samplers from secret links

Gamepuzzles defined (linked from masthead)

• (Kadon's trademark)
• Some look like puzzles
• Some look like games

The Fast Lane (quick overview for first-time visitors)

Gallery Showroom (link to Product Index)

The Puzzle Parlor — play online

• Hexnut Jr.
• Mini-Iamond Ring
• Poly-5
• Roundominoes
• Snowflake Square
• Hexmozaix Jr.
• Hexmozaix I and II
• Rhombiominoes
• Trifolia
• Multimatch III
• Quintapaths
• Triangoes Jr.

The Life of Games — an exploratory journal

• Index
• Issue No. 1 — 1999
• Issue No. 2 — 2000
• Issue No. 3 — 2004
• Issue No. 4 — 2007

Coloring Book — art you paint (interactive meta-graphics)

• "Duality" variations
• Thumbnail gallery
• Ordering information
• .GIF Template
• Flash Template
• Flash Painter — play online

Emmy-winning Video (4-minute segment from Maryland Public Television)

Children's Stories — by Warren Fahy (illustrated)

• The Green Monster
• Carl the Genius (interactive mystery maze)

Archives of our history

• Chronology of publication
• Date of first publication, alphabetical
• Who we are, what we do
• Introduction to Polyominoes (background and history)
• Awards we've bestowed
• Awards we've won
• International Puzzle Parties (puzzle designs and travelogues)
• Gatherings for Gardner (and contributions)
• 20th Anniversary Logo Puzzle (2000)
• 25th Anniversary Logo Puzzle (2005)
• A Quarter-Century Retrospective (1980-2005)
• 25th Anniversary Celebration index (with 25 special artifacts)
• 30th Anniversary Commemorative Puzzle (2010)
• 30th Anniversary Party (2010)
• Maya End-of-World Survival Party (2012)
• Annual Newsletter, 2009
• Annual Newsletter, 2010
• Annual Newsletter, 2011
• Annual Newsletter, 2012
• 1982:  The first wave of growth (2007)
• 1983:  The lesson of quality (2008)
• 1984:  Some things old, some things new (2009)
• 1985:  Guests and clones (2010)
• 1986:  Thinking big... and bigger (2011)
• 1987:  Growing three ways (2012)
• 1988:  Compounding complexity (2013)

New stuff (as of latest revision date)

• New topics
• (Links to latest additions or changes, overhauled monthly.)

FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions (and the answers)

Site features

• Icons (our hot links lexicon, with hidden surprises)
  
• Graphics (what you see is what you get)
• Getting around (site organization and navigation tips)
• Our Logo Movie (Flash animation of our logo as dancing pentominoes)
• The Fast Lane (quick tour for first-time visitors)
• Puzzle Parlor (online play of selected puzzles)
• Memory Matching Games (online play of matching hidden pairs)
  ....Pentominoes Memory Game
  ....Hexiamonds Memory Game
  ....Diamond Rainbow Memory Game
  ....Bear Hugs Jr. Memory Game
  ....Six Disks Memory Game
  ....Rombix Jr. Memory Game
  ....Multimatch-I Memory Game
  ....Multimatch-II Memory Game
  ....Beach Vacation Memory Game
  ....Joy for Kids Memory Game
  ....25th Anniversary Memory Game
  ....Christmas Memory Game
  ....Looney Pyramids Memory Game
  ....Logo-happy Memory Game (from a secret link)
  ....Animal Memory Game (from a secret link)
  ....Mountaineers Memory Game (from a secret link)
  ....Dancing Memory Game (from a secret link)
  ....Numbers Memory Game (from a very secret link)
  
• Other Amusements (ours and others'*)
  ....Annigrams
  ....Alphabest
  ....Arc Angles, tightest loop
  ....Big-Game Hunt (from a secret link)
  ....Celebrating LXX
  ....Double Entendre
  ....Flower Garden Game
  ....Hopscotch, 7 congruent shapes
  ....Leapfrog Solitaire
  ....Logo matchstick puzzles
  ....Logo maze puzzle
  ....Logo path puzzle
  ....Magic '8'
  ....Magic Heptominoes
  ....The Octo Clock
  ....The Octo Maze
  ....Rhombiominoes, joined colors
  ....The Star-9 Challenge
  ....The Three-Squared Challenge
  ....Vee-21, 25-holes challenge
  ....Vee-21, three-color problem
  ....Word Pingpong
  ....Logo Dances (from 5 secret links)
  ....Wanna Play? Links Maze Puzzle (from a secret link)
  ....AlienTiles*
  ....Color Test*
  ....Combination Lock*
  ....Cube Roll*
  ....Grand Tour* (from a secret link)
  ....Hexagrams*
  ....Jigolla*
  ....Minima*
  ....PathPix*
  ....Ping Pong*
  ....Planarity*
  ....Puzzle Express*
  ....Q Game*
  ....Quzzle*
  ....SquareMatch*
  ....Squares*
  ....Tetrapentos*
  ....U.S. Map* puzzle
  
• Archives of our history
  
• Coloring Book (art you paint online)
• The Life of Games (an exploratory online journal)
• Emmy-winning Video (4-minute short subject)
• Other special attractions (also linked from homepage)
  ....New stuff
  ....FAQ page
  ....Site Features (self-referential)
  ....How to order
  ....Site Map (you are here, so don't go there)
  ....Who we are
  ....Show schedule
  ....Resources
  ....Mascot
  ....Contests
  ....Mini-Quiz
  ....Flip catalog
  ....Print catalog
  ....Maryland Renaissance Festival
  ....Contact us
  ....Search Index
  
• Who did it (website design credits)

How to order

• Selecting your purchases
  
• Viewing your order
  
• Privacy policy
  
• Payment methods
  
• Shipping costs
  
• Oversize packages
  
• Undersize packages
  
• Preferred shipping method
  
• Sales tax
  
• Secure server
  
• Order form description
  
• Replacement parts
• Print catalog
• Gift certificates
• Giftwrapping

Site Map (you are here)

Who we are, what we do (2 pages)

• The People
  ....Kate Jones, an authorized biography
  ....Dick Jones, Chairman of the Board
  ....Longtime helpers
  ....Headquarters
   — Snows of 2006
   — Blizzards of 2010
  
• The Philosophy
• Product Line
• Logo
• Trademarks
• Marketing
• Manufacturing
  ....Acrylic colors: opaque, transparent, frosted mirror
  ....Our favorite suppliers (with links or data)
• Awards we've bestowed
  ....Gamepuzzles Annual Pentomino Excellence award
   — The 2004 award
   — The 2005 award
   — The 2006 award
   — The 2007 award
   — The 2008 award
   — The 2009 award
   — The 2010 award
   — The 2011 award
  ....Gamepuzzles Originality, Perseverance and Leadership Salute
   — The 2005 salute
   — The 2009 salute
  ....Competition Prizes
   — 50th Pentomino Challenge
   — Doris Championship 2012
  
• Prizes, honors and awards we've won
  ....Caribbean Cruise with AGPC, 2010
  
• International Puzzle Parties, since 1983
  ....International Puzzle Party, Belgium, 2002
  ....International Puzzle Party, Helsinki, 2005
  ....International Puzzle Party, Boston, 2006 (2 pages)
   — Boston T-Party Puzzle
  ....International Puzzle Party, Australia, 2007
   — Australian Adventure
   — Sudo-Koala
  ....International Puzzle Party, Prague, 2008
   — Prague Summer
   — The Prague Czecherboard Puzzle
  ....International Puzzle Party, San Francisco, 2009
   — Travelogue (8000-mile drive) (3 pages)
   — The Lombard Loops Puzzle
  .... International Puzzle Party, Berlin, 2011
   — The Berlin Wall Puzzle
  .... International Puzzle Party, Washington DC, 2012
   — The Liberty Cubes Puzzle
• Gathering for Gardner, Atlanta, since 1994
  ....G4G7, 2006
   — G = 7
   — 7 x 7 = 7
   — Magic Heptominoes
   — Raymond Smullyan and friends
  ....G4G8, 2008
   — "Philosophy Revisited:  8 Great Memes" (.pdf file, 434K)
   — The Octo Clock
   — Magic '8'
   — The Octo Maze
   — The Dome Ascent
  ....G4G9, 2010
   — "Nine Fine Lines of Thought"
   — The Three-Squared Challenge
   — The Star-9 Challenge
  ....G4GX, 2012
   — "Ten powerful thoughts iambically defined"
   — "Ten powerful thoughts..." (.ppt file, 373K)
   — Bowties—cut out 10 pieces and play (.pdf file, 199K)
  
• Celebrations of Mind
  ....October 21, 2012 (.pdf file, 428K)
  
• Praise and fanmail
• In the media
• The future
• Contact us

Show Schedule

• Where to see us (with links to event organizers)
• Our new tent
  ....Our retired wood booth
• U.S. Map* puzzle
• Hold On! (poem)
• Cold Spell (poem)
• Battling the Wind (poem)
• Maryland Renaissance Festival's 35th Anniversary
• Maryland Renaissance Festival's 25th Anniversary
• 50th Anniversary puzzle for Three Rivers Arts Festival
• 40th Anniversary puzzle for Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival
• Sudoku/sliding block puzzle honoring our Cleveland shows
• Customized sudoku/sliding block puzzle for 10th Annual Berkshires Art Festival, 2011
• Sudoku/sliding block puzzle designed for North Michigan Avenue's 20th annual art festival
• Sudoku/sliding block puzzle for Wyandotte's 50th Street Art Fair
• Artist's Statement, "The playable art of Kate Jones"

Resources (links to other good stuff)

• Publications of interest
  
• Game and puzzle catalogs
  
• Game and puzzle sites
  
• The game of ideas
  
• Kaleidoscopes by Charles Karadimos
  
• The art of Kathleen Amaru

Our honorary Mascot

• Joy for Kids Memory Game

Contests

• Bricks (downloadable sliding puzzle challenges from a German website)
  
• Pentomino Competitions (a Belgian site, in English, with prizes for top scores)
• Kadon contests (unsolved problems, open to the world)

Mini-Quiz (with hidden answer)

• Current Quiz
• Solvers' List
• Archives
  ....#1:  "Polyominoes"
  ....#2:  "Lewis Carroll"
  ....#3:  "Sweet Sixteens"
  ....#4.  "Tic Tac To"
  ....#5.  "It's in the Bag"
  ....#6.  "Who Owns the Zebra?"
  ....#7.  "The Planet Logicia"
  ....#8.  "Diamond Mine"
  

Animated flip version of our 24-page Print Catalog

24-page Print Catalog (downloadable .pdf files)

Maryland Renaissance Festival (tour Ye Olde Gamery)

• Ye Olde Gamery
• Original booth
• Staff group photo
• Sample page, Renaissance catalog

Grand Tour (start here to loop through the entire gamepuzzles gallery)

• First stop is the "Hottest Sellers" section
• Scroll down or click "Next" buttons to advance down each page
• Click on portals or "Continue" buttons at each section bottom to visit the next section
• (Psst—find a secret button to play a different kind of Grand Tour puzzle)

We belong (links to service organizations and web rings)

Contact us

• By email
• By snailmail
• By phone/fax
• At shows

Search us (thumbnail galleries or showcases of gamepuzzles indexed by type)

• Index types
  Alphabetical listing (no pictures)
  Indexed by price (no pictures)
  ....Gift Certificates
  ....Special or Limited Editions
  ....Oversize Package Surcharge
  ....Undersize Package Discount
  ....A statement of policy
  Date of first publication, alphabetical (no pictures)
  Chronology of publication (no pictures, no links)
  ....Historical notes, 1982, "The first wave of growth"
  ....Historical notes, 1983, "The lesson of quality"
  ....Historical notes, 1984, "Some things old, some things new"
  ....Historical notes, 1985, "Guests and clones"
  ....Historical notes, 1986, "Thinking big... and bigger"
  ....Historical notes, 1987, "Growing three ways"
  Archives of our history (no pictures)
  Site Map (no pictures) — you are here
  Search Index — indexed by type (no pictures)
  ....Word Pingpong
  25th Anniversary index (no pictures)
  Print catalog index (no pictures)
  
  
• The mostest
  Newest releases
  Our 25 greatest hits (25th Anniversary list)
  Hottest sellers
  Games Magazine selects
  
  
• For the people
  For youngest players (age 3-8)
  The hardest ones (teen-adult)
  For the visually impaired
  For 3 or more players
  Gift certificates
  Replacement parts
  
  
• Special editions
  Treasured oldies—out-of-print goodies return
  Collectors' editions, signed and numbered
  Limited editions, vanishing species
  Boston T-Party puzzle
  Jacques Ferroul's Poly-Spidrons
  Jacques Ferroul's Stelo
  Jacques Ferroul's Tetrapentos and Pocket Tetrapentos
  Erich Friedman's meta-dissection puzzles
  Erich Friedman's Rolling-Block Maze
  Grand Multimatch I
  Hexagonal board, order-8, vinyl
  Hex board, order-14, wood
  Kolossal Pyramid, 25th Anniversary edition (in 2011 only)
  Logo puzzles, custom-designed
  ....20th Anniversary Logo Puzzle archive
  ....25th Anniversary Logo Puzzle archive
  ....25th anniversary puzzles
  ....30th anniversary puzzles
  ....40th anniversary puzzles
  ....50th anniversary puzzles
  ....Double Entendre word puzzle
  Lombard Loops
  Memory Bank 25-year commemorative archival sets
  Ed Pegg Jr.'s 37-Squares puzzle
  Ed Pegg Jr.'s Octiamond Stack
  Henri Picciotto's Polyarcs puzzle
  Quintachex inlaid wood chessboard (1 set only, 2013)
  Round Tuits, deluxe decorator art
  Spin-a-Spell Halloween Twirlers
  Specialty bears
  Surprising Pyramid, 25th Anniversary edition (12 sets only, 2012)
  Twirl-a-Spell Maya No-End Disks
  Volcano Boards, Looney Labs' BIG sizes
  Zdravko Zivkovic Collection
  
  
  
• Unique attributes
  Three-dimensional games and puzzles
  Tic-tac-to themes...lining them up
  Games and puzzles made of wood
  Pocket puzzles
  What you can buy for $25
  
  
• Mainly games, mainly puzzles
  Abstract strategy games
  Historical games (real and fictitious)
  Puzzles, only puzzles
  
  
• Classic combinatorials
  Edgematching by color or shape
  Pentagonal tilings (Penrose, etc.)
  Polyforms (all the standards plus a few fancies)
  Polyominoes and polycubes
  
  
• Artistry
  The Rusticana Collection (mixed-media art pieces)
  Tactile Graphics (larger art pieces)
  Tilings and designs (tessellations)
  Kaleido-Matrix gameboards (gorgeous grids)
  Flashes of Life (book of photos and verse)
  
  
• Our other domain names
  www.tactilegraphics.us
  www.playable-art.com
  www.polyformpuzzles.com
  www.thelifeofgames.com
  www.hexdominoes.com

• Our Facebook page
  Gamepuzzles

Kate's blogs

• "Kate's Takes" at Blogspot from a secret link
  Musings on Valentine's Day
  
  
• "Puzzlelady" at LiveJournal from a secret link
  
• "Puzzlelady" on Facebook
  
• "Gamepuzzlelady" on Twitter

Email us hot button (with email link)

(Copyright notice, technical comments)

(Links to our other domain names)

• www.tactilegraphics.us
• www.playable-art.com
• www.polyformpuzzles.com
• www.thelifeofgames.com
• www.hexdominoes.com

Our Great Wall  (linked thumbnails of all our products—keep scrolling right)

• Tilings, polyforms, edgematching sets, the Pentagon Universe
• Wooden boardgames, brainteasers, Tactile Graphics, Rusticana sets