Friday, October 06, 2006

Google Puzzle #17






Saturday, September 09, 2006

Google Puzzle #14

Battleship!

(Given the black filled in spots and the numbers on the edges of the grid--which signify the number of boat blocks in the column or row---the 6 boats must be placed in the grid.)






Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Google Puzzle #13

Cross-O Change-O

1) Car Companies
Suzuki Maruti
General Motors
Volkswagen Group
Hyundai Kia
Daimler Chrysler

2) Caribbean Nation
Cayman Islands
Antigua and Barbuda
Domincan Republic
Saint Kitt and Nevis
Trinidad and Tobago

3) Game Designer
Shigeru Miyamoto
Will Wright
Richard Garfield
Steve Ritchie
Reiner Knizia

4) State Capital
Oklahoma City
Tallahassee
Providence
Sacramento
Springfield

5) Baseball Team
Colorado Rockies
Vaqueros Laguna
Boston Red Sox
Orix Buffaloes
Texas Rangers

6) Pulitzer Poet
Anthony Hecht
Philip Levine
John Berryman
Carl Sandburg
Robert Lowell

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Google Puzzle #12

Kakuro, again... This time it's just too easy :(






Saturday, August 19, 2006

Google Puzzle #11

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nucleus castigate midstream
affirm postpone avertable
choose went on electrode
lady ringleader squawking
frogman fellow divergent
complain docket carpenter
cultivate panorama rearrange
barrow groove cartridge
speculate tessellate infertile
straps elevated reinstall
considering entrust sincerely
devil ambulatory improving
underpays pinnacle shortstop
pronounce raiment readdress
lowfat reassemble literally

Friday, August 18, 2006

Google Puzzle #9

A collection of Kakuro (cross sums) with numbers 1-6.

Google Puzzle #8

My favorite so far!

1) Numbers
  • levee + n = eleven
  • ennui - u = nine
  • imp - m = pi
  • bent - b = ten
  • fortune + e = fourteen
  • nerves - r = seven
  • handout + s = thousand
2) Sitcoms
  • finder + s = friends
  • hairdo - i = rhoda
  • bonnets - t = benson
  • resonance - c = roseanne
  • shame + o = moesha
  • firearms - m = frasier
  • amused - s = maude
3) Shapes
  • clerics - s = circle
  • lathering - h = triangle
  • bologna - a = oblong
  • tonnage + p = pentagon
  • hombre - e = rhomb
  • salvo - s = oval
4) Saints
  • lyrics - s = cyril
  • continents + a = constantine
  • inane - i = anne
  • wader + n = andrew
  • situating - t = augustin
  • preset - s = peter
5) Headgear
  • hermit - h = mitre
  • makes - e = mask
  • burnt + a = turban
  • lived - d = veil
  • foraged - g = fedora
  • herniate - e = hairnet
  • faze - a = fez
  • elbow + r = bowler
6) Titans
  • earth - t = rhea
  • heat + i = theia
  • rustic - t = crius
  • atheism - a = themis
  • ounces + n = coeus
  • uncross - s = cronus

Google Puzzle #6

First off, Wei-hwa has finally published a home page with the puzzles so you need not have a Google account: http://weihwa.feedback.googlepages.com/home

Here's a nice blank version of the sixth puzzle:

And a snapshot of the solution:

Monday, July 03, 2006

Google Puzzle #5

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harvest pome reappear
inlet fulminate coverage
supplication genuine pleasure
blemish municipality scarcity
circlet antiquated bandaged
obligation discomfort mustache
maiden pinnacle misspeak
fashion classify moderate
remnant innate stubborn
oppugn chessman sparking
platter forfeit disclose
completed spoken pastoral
fellow placed chaplain
comprehend equitable readjust
unrestrained enthusiasm freezing