Hello

Im looking for software which creates these kind of brain twisting puzzles on this sight? does anyone know ?

lambros Klouvidakis
Saturday, September 11, 2004

By "creates" you mean invent? or get out of a ready made database? if you mean the former I don't think such a software is even possible. If you mean the latter I haven't heard of any but you can easily make your own...

Christian Kamel
Saturday, September 11, 2004

what is a good place to get the puzzles to put in the database? besides techinterview.org of course?!

.
Sunday, September 12, 2004

Depends on what you need them for....
Anyway a couple of good sites are here
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/default.aspx?content=question.htm
And you can always google it and see what you could find.
You won't always find the answers as easily though.
Cheers

Christian Kamel
Sunday, September 12, 2004

Two good names to 'Google' about problem solving are George Polya and Martin Gardner. Polya was a Hungarian mathematician, and Gardner was Mathematical Games columnist for Scientific American. Both published books on problems and problem solving.

Example sites:
Polya:  http://www.mathgym.com.au/htdocs/polyab.htm
Gardner:  http://www.ctaz.com/~dmn1/gardner.htm

Chuck Boyer
Monday, September 13, 2004

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