{"id":225,"date":"2008-07-04T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:14:40","slug":"newsletter-7-sliding-blocks-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/newsletter-7-sliding-blocks-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #7 : Sliding Blocks Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[This is a back-issue of this website’s newsletter<\/a><\/em>]<\/div>\n
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Sliding Blocks Puzzles<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I’ve just uploaded a new game – a java applet with some sliding blocks puzzles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Basically, a “sliding blocks puzzle” is a puzzle where tiles (or blocks) are placed on a confined grid of some sort. Then they must then be moved only by sliding, in order to achieve some goal. The traffic jam game<\/a> is a famous example of a sliding blocks puzzle.<\/p>\n

I decided to make this sliding blocks puzzle page while reading a book of puzzles. The book described a problem of a husband and wife trying to move furniture around their apartment. It struck me that the puzzle was actually impossible to solve, but would be solvable if their apartment had a different floor plan.<\/p>\n

You can read more about my thoughts – and try the puzzles – at the web page. The java applet currently has six different sliding blocks puzzles – although as you’ll see, some of them would be quite hard to actually make out of real physical sliding blocks! Nonetheless, they work fine on the screen \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In the future, I may add more puzzles to the applet, or make printable versions of the ones I have. Things seem to be busy right now!<\/p>\n

New Look<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you do visit the page, you may notice (or may have already noticed) that it looks a bit different.<\/p>\n

I made some changes to the logo and menus so that the pages will load faster. I also changed the layout a bit so it will work better for people with small screens – no more horizontal scrolling!<\/p>\n

I’ve tried to test the new look on a few different browsers and computers, but if you find it seems weird and unusable, do please let me know!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, if it’s school holidays where you are – I hope they go great for you and your family!<\/p>\n

Yours,
\nMike H…
\n(Dr Mike’s Math Games for Kids)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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