Gramblings

And on a lighter note than my previous posting, lo these many months ago, here are a collection of java applets for a puzzle called Rush Hour. A company called Binary Arts makes the real puzzle, in several variations, out of cute plastic pieces.

Bill Schubert's version promises three new puzzles each week. It's easy to use because you can drag the cars and trucks in an intuitive way.

There's another one at John Rausch's Puzzle World under the name Car Jam. It's definitely the nicest looking, but it also seems less reliable using Netscape 6.01.

There's an abstract version of the puzzle -- it looks more like sliding blocks -- at Eagle I. Berns's site. This version has forty different puzzles in four difficulty levels. The site has seven other java puzzles, some with source code.

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