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These are optical illusions found by searching the net. Eye witnesses can not always be trusted for their vision. Hence the another argument for abolishing Death Penalty.
These are ancient puzzles and attention was drawn to them in Dudeneys "Amusement in Mathematics". However they were in prose ( textual riddle ). I have converted them to Solitaire video games.These decantation puzzles have to do with several uncalibrated JARS where you pour a given amount to achieve a target goal.
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The images of a beautiful Afghan girl caught in jaws of the Soviet invasion around 1985 and whose haunting green eyes lead to her later discovery is shown here.
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Magic Squares of an odd matrix like 5x5 ,11x11,etc can be constructed by several methods. This demo gives a simple rule devised by Bachet using the North_East diagonal for successive numbers.
This is one more of H.E.Dudeneys puzzle. It appears as puzzle 222 in his famous Amusement in Mathematics book. As far as I know the puzzle has not been animated.
Peg solitaire is an ancient puzzle and was made famous by H.E.Dudeney in his
"Amusements in Mathematics" ( puzzle 227 called "Central Solitaire) using 32
pegs and his solution in 19 moves. Here I give a triangular version of the same
peg jump
The Toads And Frogs Puzzle is also known under the names of Hares and Tortoise and Sheep and Goats. I call it her as JUMPIN FROG . The optimum number of moves is (fxf )+(f+f) which is 24in this case where f=4.( 4 frogs on each side)
![Solution to \"Toads and Frogs\" puzzle by chandru arni](http://img.youtube.com/vi/nxI_u7uUTps/2.jpg "Solution to \\"Toads and Frogs\\" puzzle by chandru arni")
