It was based on a similar puzzle involving dogs published in 1857.

Skyler Miller of GameSpot argues that Atari Video Cube, also from the same year, " gets my vote as the first true puzzle video game ," involving gameplay similar to a Rubik's Cube in a 2-dimensional space.

There are 240 distinct solutions of the Soma cube puzzle, excluding rotations and reflections: these are easily generated by a simple recursive backtracking search computer program similar to that used for the eight queens puzzle.

The puzzle positions are seldom similar to positions from actual play, and the challenge is not to find a winning move, but rather to find the ( usually unique ) move which forces checkmate as rapidly as possible.

); rebus themes, where multiple letters or even symbols occupy a single square in the puzzle ( e. g., BERMUDAΔ ); pun-based themes ( perhaps the most common ), where all the answers are similar puns ; commemorative themes, based on a particular event or person ( often published on an appropriate anniversary ); and other less common types.

The burr puzzle gets its name from the most traditional shape for the finished puzzle, a symmetrical arrangement of intersecting cuboids thought to resemble a seed burr, but similar puzzles can have other forms: a ball, a human figure, a ship, a bird or a star-like shape.

The puzzle consists of 8 black square tiles ( Changed to red squares with goldish rings in 1997 ) arranged in a 2 × 4 rectangle ; diagonal grooves on the tiles hold wires that connect them, allowing them to be folded onto each other and unfolded again in two perpendicular directions ( assuming that no other connections restrict the movement ) in a manner similar to a Jacob's Ladder toy.

A similar classification can also be obtained for the heart-shaped forms of the puzzle, of which 64 exist.

* Geom Cube ( 3D puzzle game similar to Blockout ): 12 / 22 / 1994

The Minus Cube, manufactured in the USSR, is a 3D puzzle with similar operations to the 15-puzzle.

* Jeu de taquin, an operation on skew Young tableaux similar to moves of the 15 puzzle.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson devised a method resembling a puzzle, yet partly similar to the tabular method given above: he lists the same three adjustments for the first three months, one 7 higher for the last, and gives cryptic instructions for finding the rest ; his adjustments for centuries are to be determined using a formula identical to the one for the Centuries table.

** Void Cube, a 3-D mechanical puzzle similar to a Rubik's Cube

The challenger will answer the puzzle in the form of song of similar melody.

The PC game Chronomaster featured similar puzzle minigames which were crucial to the plot.

These fossils, which date to about 51. 5-49. 5 Ma, are dominated by leaves, cone scales, and leafy branches of araucarian conifers, very similar in all respects to living Araucaria araucana ( monkey puzzle ) from Chile.

* Towers of Hanoi, a puzzle that mentions a similar story

The engine for the game was written by Warren Robinett, and variants of it were used in many of The Learning Company's graphical adventure games of the time, including Rocky's Boots, Gertrude's Secrets, Gertrude's Puzzles, and Think Quick !, all of which are similar but easier logic puzzle games.

The 2012 film The Cabin in the Woods initially homages Hellraiser by showing a similar spherical puzzle box in an early scene, as one of the many items that might decide which monster plagues the main character.

This is accomplished by manoeuvering different types of Pieces that fall onto the playing area, one at a time ( in a similar manner to the puzzle game Tetris ).

The corners can be placed just as they are in any previous order of cube puzzle, and the centers are manipulated with an algorithm similar to the one used in the 4 × 4 × 4 cube.

The Pyraminx is a tetrahedral puzzle similar to the Rubik's Cube.

Oedipus and Lear attain similar insights by virtue of similar blindness.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed out, and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear, so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar.

) This is, of course, a similar type of behavior to that indicated by birefringence studies.

For the low-temperature measurements the sample was cooled by a cold nitrogen gas flow method similar to that of Andrew and Eades.

In the present work whole sera have been fractionated by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose using single gradients similar to those described by Sober and Peterson, and certain chemical and serological properties of the fractions containing antibodies of the ABO and Rh systems have been described.

Accordingly, maturity level ratings by means of the upper portion and lower portion of the Chart, respectively, should be somewhat similar since Skeletal Age assessments are dependent upon Onsets during infancy and upon Completions during adolescence.

The most active preparations obtained by these two groups of investigators appear to be similar in potency, composition and physical properties.

Results of specific staining by the direct and the indirect methods were similar and showed the localization of WTV antigen in certain tissues of tumors.

Somewhat similar investigations have been made by medical officers in other areas.

Reliability and validation work with the Children's Anxiety Scale by Castaneda, et al demonstrated results closely similar to the findings with the adult scale.

Fifty of the 100 firms were selected on a random basis from 3,500 names submitted by member companies of the Aerospace Industries Association ( AIA list ) and fifty were selected in a similar manner from a list of 1,500 names compiled by the research team from the Thomas Register ( TR list ).

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

and it is better to be shamed and criticized by one's parents, who already consider one different and difficult to understand, than by one's peers, who are also experiencing a similar groping for and denial of adult status.

A similar resolution passed in the Senate by a vote of 29-5.

When the shouting ended, the bill passed, 114 to 4, sending it to the Senate, where a similar proposal is being sponsored by Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas.

Where schools, fire and police protection, and similar municipal services are of equal quality in city and country, real estate taxes are usually about the same.

The number of degrees of freedom DF can be partitioned in a similar way: one of these components ( that for error ) specifies a chi-squared distribution which describes the associated sum of squares, while the same is true for " treatments " if there is no treatment effect.

The Agriculturalists supported the fixing of prices, in which all similar goods, regardless of differences in quality and demand, are set at exactly the same, unchanging price.

An atom of any other element ionized down to a single electron is very similar to hydrogen, and the orbitals take the same form.

Orbitals of multi-electron atoms are qualitatively similar to those of hydrogen, and in the simplest models, they are taken to have the same form.

Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.

Commonly, substitutions involve picking another ( actual ) word starting with the same sound ( e. g. clocktower-colander ), picking another semantically related to the first ( e. g. letter-scroll ), or picking one phonetically similar to the intended one ( e. g. lane-late ).

Peripherals equipped with similar SCC's could communicate using the built-in protocols, interleaving their data with other peripherals on the same bus.

Token Ring would eventually be supported with the similar TokenTalk product, which also used the same Network control panel and underlying software.

In the same way, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion.

Hardly any of the responses were similar, even though the plants had become accustomed to exactly the same home environment.

The rite would be similar to that of Pentecostals in its simplicity, but would usually not have the same emotionalism attached to it.

During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.

Calraet mimicked Cuyp ’ s style, incorporating the same aspects, and produced similar landscapes to that of the latter.

At the same time, flavored malt beverages are marketed in traditional beer-type bottles and cans and distributed to the alcohol beverage market through beer and malt beverage wholesalers, and their alcohol content is similar to other malt beverages in the 4-6 % alcohol by volume range .</ p >

The bet in this municipal bond arbitrage is that, over a longer period of time, two similar instruments — municipal bonds and interest rate swaps — will correlate with each other ; they are both very high quality credits, have the same maturity and are denominated in U. S. dollars.

Although the hard-part bearing organisms make up as little as 14 % of the community, these same organisms are found in similar proportions in other Cambrian localities.

His character is similar in look and voice to the Hank Hill character from Judge's subsequent series, King of the Hill since both were based on the same collection of elderly men from Judge's youth.

Thus, many users of a given BBS usually lived in the same area, and activities such as BBS Meets or Get Togethers were common, where users of the board would gather at a local restaurant, the SysOp ’ s home or similar venue and meet face to face.

In fact, as their synthesis is controlled by a template directed process in most in vivo systems all biopolymers of a type ( say one specific protein ) are all alike: they all contain the similar sequences and numbers of monomers and thus all have the same mass.

Some Protestant churches including the Lutheran and Methodist churches have bishops serving similar functions as well, though not always understood to be within apostolic succession in the same way.

At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by the theologist Ezra Stiles, were working toward a similar end.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

Bulletins on BBC World News and BBC One also introduced similar graphics and title sequences on the same day.