Classes about solving puzzles?

I have been asked when I will be teaching classes again. Soon, I hope.

It has been said to “teach what you know.”

After my extended bout of flu fighting, I am most familiar with solving pencil and paper puzzles though I use a pen for the added challenge.

So anyone want to know some techniques for solving puzzles?

My favorite kinds of puzzles are:

Sudoku aka Number Place
Place numbers into a grid without repeating a digit in any row or column

Jigsaw Sudoku aka Loco Sudoku
Place numbers into an irregular grid

3-D Sudoku
A delightful twist on Sudoku

Killer Sudoku aka Sum-Doku
A cross between Sudoku and Kakuro

Paint by Numbers aka Nonogram, Logic Art, Paint-Doku, PicCross
Deduce which dots to color to make a picture appear

Loose Tile
Deduce the positions of domino tiles in a box

Brick by Brick
Like a crossword with the answer given to you in 2x3 blocks

Letterboxes aka Tanglewords
Fit words into a grid, like a word seek in reverse

Places Please
A slightly different format of a Letterbox

Missing Vowels Word Seek
Find words, but all of the vowels have been removed

Fill-in
Fit intersecting words into a grid

Crosspatches aka Framework, Kriss Kross
Fit words into a sparse grid

Kakuro aka Cross Sums
Fit numbers into a grid with no repeating digits and the digits adding up to a specific sum

Trigons
Determine the values of the edges of triangular pieces

Collectibles
A constrained logic puzzle

Battleships
Determine the position of a fleet of ships in a section of ocean

Some time ago, I created some web pages about some of them:

http://home.earthlink.net/~deiresearch/puzzles/paintbynumbers/index.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~deiresearch/puzzles/crosssums/index.htm

I also have one on Sudoku, but apparently never got around to uploading it.

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