"Knossos Games" is a puzzle column in Imagine magazine, published by the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University. This web site is the repository of all Knossos Games puzzles printed in the magazine, along with solutions, comments about the puzzles, and a few other tidbits. Enjoy!

NOTE: This page will soon be phased out. Please redirect all links to http://homepage.mac.com/boester/.

	Two new Knossos Games puzzles: fish ladders and boggling stories.
	Coming soon to the Knossos Games web site: A new type of based on binary arithmetic.
	July 4th, 2006 Argh matey! Check out the newest type of word puzzle, boggling stories. Just find the words in the grid of letters to finish the story. If you’re a returning visitor to Knossos Games, check out the new homepage. This is the first step of the site’s next redesign (hence the 6.0 alpha designation), so keep your eyes peeled for more changes! May 15th, 2006 The newest addition to Knossos Games: fish ladder puzzles. Using the pieces available, build the “steps” in the ladder so the fish can traverse the height barrier.

Tips for navigating the site:

The puzzles here range from simple, straightforward mazes to complicated, rule-based puzzles. I've found puzzle-worthy topics from gardening to cellular biology to reality television. If you don't find something interesting and the right difficulty for you right away, keep looking - there are 22 categories of puzzles, and the list keeps growing!

Not every puzzle belongs to a group (to be included in the category listing) and not every puzzle that appears on the web site has been published (to be included in the publication listing). Browse around both listings to see everything, or check out the web site index.

The navigation bar on each puzzle page looks like this (mouse over to explore):

 

 

If you'd like more information about the history of Knossos Games, go to the Knossos Games Timeline.

For more information about the author's academic work in finding common threads in educational psychology, curriculum and instruction, and college mathematics instruction, go to the Knossos Games academic page.