UK Puzzle Association

Dear puzzle friends,

I am writing on behalf of Akil Oyunlari Publishing, the Turkish representative of World Puzzle Federation.

We have been publishing puzzle magazines in Turkey since 2003. Our magazines are published in Turkish language, but as the puzzles are mostly free from language, we wanted to make the magazines available to puzzlers all over the world. So we decided to open Akil Oyunlari Blog in English.

http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com

The blog will contain indexes for every issue. When you click on a particular puzzle name, you will be directed to the related PuzzleWiki page, which contains the example and English instructions of that puzzle.

Subscription options are explained in the Introduction post.

You can also follow Akil Oyunlari Magazines in Facebook page, which will be updated simultaneously with the blog:

http://www.facebook.com/akiloyunlari.magazines

Best wishes

Gulce Ozkutuk Yurekli

wow that's amazing, thanks! It's still fun to figure them out without instructions

New issue (73rd) of Akil Oyunlari magazine is published, and the index has been posted in our blog: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/3700.html

- The guest of our "Famous Puzzlers" section is Vladimir Portugalov in this issue. You can find the interview in English here: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/4090.html

- In addition to many Turkish puzzlemakers, we are having contributions of puzzlemakers all over the world. You can find the puzzles of Deb Mohanty, Dragan Tolomanoski, Grant Fikes, Mladen Mrcela, Nikola Zivanovic, Riad Khanmagomedov, Rohan Rao, Roland Voigt, Thomas Snyder, Toso Borkovic, Vladimir Portugalov, Zoltan Horvath in this issue.

- Issue 73 includes 130 puzzles, and all but 9 of these are handmade puzzles.

- By the end of May, all 2010 issues' indexes will be ready in the blog.

Best wishes

Gulce

We started to add the indexes of older Akıl Oyunları issues to our blog with issues 70-71. Sorry for the little delay, all 2010 issues will be completed in a couple of days. Check "2010 issues" tag from time to time:
http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/tag/2010%20issues

Also, now you can find about Roland Voigt and Murat Koz in our "famous puzzlers" section. All "Famous Puzzlers" pages published so far can be found in "famous puzzlers" tag:
http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/ta ... 20puzzlers

Best wishes

Gulce

74th issue of Akil Oyunlari is published in August. Index can be found in: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/5655.html

You can find the puzzles of Deb Mohanty, Dragan Tolomanoski, Grant Fikes, Nikola Zivanovic, Palmer Mebane, Riad Khanmagomedov, Rohan Rao, Roland Voigt, Thomas Snyder, Toso Borkovic and Zoltan Horvath in this issue.

The guest of our "Famous Puzzlers" section is Palmer Mebane (USA). You can find the interview in English here: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/5512.html
Best,

Gulce

Very interesting reading

Great interview. Thanks, Gulce.

I sent off for a copy of issue 74 of this magazine a couple of weeks ago just to have a look at what it was like due to the lack of decent puzzle magazines over here (Gareth's Sudoku Xtra excepted of course!) and it arrived in the post today. I've only done a couple of the puzzles so far but am sure I'm going to really enjoy having a go at the wide variety of puzzles in there - some of which I have seen before and some which are quite new to me. What is also pleasing is the fact that the puzzles are graded, easy, medium, medium plus, hard and very hard so at least you know what to expect before you start. Great selection of puzzles.

Akil Oyunlari books are now available in our blog. Indexes of all books will be posted under the tag "puzzle books". First one is ready, "Puzzles for Beginners".

http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/7105.html

76th issue of Akil Oyunlari is published in February. Index can be found in: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/8116.html

You can find the puzzles of Bram de Laat, Deb Mohanty, Frederic Stalder, Grant Fikes, Matus Demiger, Nikola Zivanovic, Pal Madarassy, Riad Khanmagomedov, Rohan Rao, Roland Voigt, Tawan Sunathvanichkul, Thomas Snyder and Zoltan Horvath in this issue.

The guest of our "Famous Puzzlers" section is Johan de Ruiter (NED). You can find the interview in English here: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/7907.html

Best,

Gulce

77th issue of Akil Oyunlari is published in May. Index can be found in: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/8478.html

You can find the puzzles of Bram de Laat, Frederic Stalder, Gareth Moore, Grant Fikes, Nikola Zivanovic, Riad Khanmagomedov, Roland Voigt, Tawan Sunathvanichkul, Thomas Snyder and Zoltan Horvath in this issue.

The guest of our "Famous Puzzlers" section is Gareth Moore (UK). You can find the interview in English here: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/8777.html

Best,

Gulce

Loving the write-up on Gareth!
Also interesting to note that the German puzzle wiki is being used for the English description/example repository of Turkish puzzles. Truly international...
I don't see a link for purchasing this issue. Can you post it here (or in your first post) please?

PuzzleScot wrote: Also interesting to note that the German puzzle wiki is being used for the English description/example repository of Turkish puzzles. Truly international...

I don't see a link for purchasing this issue. Can you post it here (or in your first post) please?

Purchasing options in here: http://akil-oyunlari.livejournal.com/2028.html