First of all, and most importantly, if you used the domain name johnrausch.com to get here, it could stop working
without notice after the end of July 2025. The domain name johnrausch.com was sold. The new owner of the domain
has agreed to provide redirects to puzzleworld.org. If you use johnrausch.com to go to one of the four directories or
pages within the domain root; PuzzleWorld, DesignCompetition, PuzzlingWorld (of Polyhedral Dissections), and
SlidingBlockPuzzles. For example, johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld along with any directories in a URL it should work for a while,
but it is not guaranteed.
Use the domain name puzzleworld.org, which most people already use. It goes to the same content. If you use
puzzleworld.org alone, without one of the four directories, it will automatically go to the PuzzleWorld home page.
The other three are, and always have, had information about them on the home page and links to them,
And, as always with an Apache server, everything in a URL is case sensitive except for the domain name,
For those of you who know how to contact me, I welcome suggestions or corrections. The biographies for designers
and craftsmen have been changed as much as I am sure about, but it would be nice if they could be more thorough
and correct. There are a lot more of them listed, but their pages have nothing about them. I would like to have,
at least, some information.
The search page, which used Google, has been removed. With Google search, you can put "site:puzzleworld.org" at
the beginning of a search, that that will limit the results to that puzzleworld.org.
The Puzzle Index page was removed. The same alphabetically ordered index appears in the Site Map, which has links
to all of the Puzzle World pages.
The most noticeable change is to how the puzzle thumbnail images appear on the Designer/Craftsman and Category pages.
These no long have the frames along the left side of the browser window. The pages contain all of the puzzles on one
page in alphabetic sequence, left to right. Along with the text, the thumbnails float with the size of the window.
If you resize the width of the browser window, the thumbnails will also float to fit the width.
The floting thumbnails make it possible to use Puzzle World on iPads and other tablets, or even phones though things
are tiny on phones.
There is a "BACK" after the navigation bar on every page. It does the same thing as the back arrow on the browser
but you might find it more convenient. You can try it out by going to one of the places in the navigation bar, go
further, and come right back here.
There are two new articles about Rune Cube by Kagen Sound's and Melting Block 4 by Bill Cutler and Me. CRUMB was one
of 76 Melting Block 4 solutions - an easy one. I will be adding more articles soon because I have them and it's easy
to add them.