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Blocks Puzzle Imagine all the different shapes you can make by taking five adjacent squares from a chess or draughts board. There are twelve different shapes, not including rotations and reflections. These can be fitted into a ten-by-six rectangle. To try your skill at this task, download the Puzzle Program.

puzzle.exe is a Windows95/98 Program.
Formats .zip (183 kb) or .exe (389 kb)
Last updated December 20 1999


Spots Game

Each square in a four by four box is marked with a coloured spot. Sixteen coloured blocks must be fitted into the box in such a way that no block is on a spot the same colour as itself, and at no time are two adjacent squares the same colour. To try your skill at this task, download the Spots Program.

spots.exe is a Windows95/98 Program.
Formats: .zip (182 k), .exe (387 k).
Last updated: December 19, 1999.