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Janko.at is the award-winning, copyrighted, personal page of Angela and Otto Janko, a German couple. Janko.at has information about puzzles, riddles, games, mysteries, and other mental exercises, napkin decorating, German recipes, the Viennesse language (called Wienerisch), nature photography, humor, satire, quotations, and aphorisms. Janko.at has information about Retrograde Chess Analysis, and complete solutions and walkthroughs for adventure style games such as Isis, Phantasmagoria, and Gabriel Knight. Janko.at allows users access to freeware downloads, blogs, and forums. And the best part is, it's all free.

Since Janko.at is a personal page, it links to its creators Ebay store, has photos of their garden, wedding, coat of arms, and pets, as well as information about their hobbies and interests.

[edit] Puzzles

At Janko.at one can find thousands of logic, optimization, concentration, strategy, tactics, skill, number, picture, language and other puzzle types. Some of the puzzles are well-known only in Germany, while others, like Sudoku, are well-known all over the world. Most puzzles can be solved online and nearly all of them have solutions.
For all of the different puzzles, rules, explanations, easy-access solutions, and step-by step guides of examples, are provided.

The symbol " ₪ " will act as a link to Janko.at's page on that particular puzzle.

• ABC Combination ₪; Akari ₪; Alphametics ₪ ₪; Analogies₪; Around the Corner Meant ₪; Arrow Path ₪; Arrow Numbers ₪; Arukone ₪; Arukone 2 ₪; Arukone 3 ₪; A Term Does Not Fit ₪

• Battleships ₪; Black Box ₪; Blocking Hurrying ₪; Boulderdash ₪; Branqueta de Cirera ₪

• C@sumo[1] ₪; Camp ₪ ₪; Chaos Sudoku ₪; Clueless-1 Sudoku ₪; Clueless-2 Sudoku ₪; Color Flow ₪; Color Spreading ₪; Consecutive Sudoku ₪; Cross Number ₪; Computing Lattice ₪

• Daleks ₪; Decimal Lattice[2] ₪; Domino ₪

• Ebony & Ivory [1] ₪; Eliminator ₪; Eulero ₪

• Fillomino ₪ ₪; Flower Sudoku ₪; Four-Number ₪; Futoshiki ₪

• Gattai-8 Sudoku ₪; Gorapuru ₪; Grand Route ₪; Griddlers ₪

• Hakyuu (Kouka) ₪; Hashiwokakero ₪; Hashiwokakero 2 ₪; Hebi ₪; Heyawake ₪; Historical Mysteries ₪; Hitori ₪

• Iceblox ₪; Impact Chess ₪;

• Javanoid ₪; Jigsaw Puzzle ₪; Jump Game ₪

• Kakurasu ₪; Kakuro ₪; Kalkulu ₪; Kendoku ₪; Killer Sudoku ₪; Kuromasu ₪

• Lampions ₪; Latin Sums ₪; Lateral Thinking ₪; Leap Labyrinths ₪; Letter Salad ₪; Logicals ₪; Logic ₪

• Magnets ₪; Master Mind ₪ ₪; Masyu ₪; Masyu 2 ₪; Mathematics ₪; Math Questions ₪; Matrix ₪; Matrix II ₪; Minesweeper ₪; Mochikoro ₪; Moebius ₪; Mosaic ₪

• Neighbour ₪; Nibbles ₪; N-Lady-Problem ₪; Nonogram ₪; Number Path ₪; Number Queue ₪; Nurikabe ₪

• PanneRotto ₪; Patchwork ₪; Pathfinder ₪; Peg Solitaire ₪; Pentominos ₪; Physics Problems₪; Polyomino ₪ ₪;

• Quadrato ₪ Quotation-Mix ₪

• Riddles ₪; Roll Cube ₪; Rotaro ₪

• Same Game ₪; Samunamupure ₪; Samurai Sudoku ₪; Seek Numbers ₪; Shooter ₪; Siji ₪; Shikaku ₪; Sliding Puzzle ₪; Slither Left ₪; Skyscraper ₪; Slither Left ₪; SnakePit ₪; Sobokan ₪; Sphinx ₪; Starlit Sky ₪; Star Battle ₪; Sudoku ₪; Sudoku 2D ₪; Sudoku with Magic Number ₪; Sudoku Variants ₪; Swap Game ₪;

• TacTix ₪; Tentai Show ₪; Theseus and Minotaurus ₪; Tilting Labyrinths ₪; Trace Numbers ₪; Triplets ₪; Trivia Quiz ₪

• Unit Deformation ₪

• Vampire/Haunted Mirror Maze ₪; Vexed ₪; Vlak ₪;

• Windmill Sudoku ₪; Worm Labyrinths ₪; Word Search ₪; Word Transformation ₪

• Zipline ₪

[edit] Recipes

Angela and Otto Janko are very picky about the recipes that they post on Janko.at. They only post quality recipes that they have tried, tested and tasted themselves. They also include the number of calories per portion for each recipe. Many recipes have photos, hints, and tips. The collection has recipes for soups, salads, vegetables, desserts, jams and jellies, breads and rolls, and sauces and dips. Instructions on how to prepare various dishes of poultry, fish, beef, pork, lamb, veal, and wild game are presented. Christmas time recipes are also given.

[edit] Viennese Dictionary

Janko.at has an extensive collection of Viennese terms translated into German that can act as an aid for the communication amongst Austrians. Janko.at's Wieneri dictionary deals primarily with select words and a culinary phrases and terms.

[edit] Humor and Satire

Janko.at has funny stories on the differences between men and women, on work and economics, computers and the internet, politics and society, cats, cooking, Microsoft and Bill Gates, law, science, research and technology and more. There is a collection of "Requests For Comments" provided by the Internet Engineering Task Force and a collection of Little Red Riding Hood stories, each told by a lawyer, moralist, socialist, psychiatrist and by other professionals and in other styles, like in computer language.

[edit] Photographs

see wedding, garden, pets, nature sectin on homepage

[edit] Quotations, Aphorisms and Wise Sayings

Janko.at's anthology of quotations and aphorisms contains quotes from Einstein, Mark Twain, Franz Christian, and others, and covers love, famous last words and mistakes, and more.
Janko.at also has a collectin of "Reformed Writings" where complicated sentences are translated into every day vernacular. Here's an example:

Ballistic experiments with crystalline H2O on the area of the educational institutions are subject to strict Prohibition!
Translates into...
The throwing of snowballs in the schoolyard is forbidden!

[edit] The Retrograde Analysis Corner

"Retrograde analysis is a technique employed by chess problem solvers to determine which moves were played leading up to a given position."
Janko.at's more than 3500 Retro problems (with solutions) have been compiled from newspapers, chess magazines books, articles, and other sources.

Janko.at features articles by prominent retro authority Alexander George, has a glossary, and an introduction to Retrograde Anaylsis, lists the FIDE rules of chess and the Codex for Chess Compositions and has current Retro tourneys posted.

Janko.at has collections and galleries of Retro masterpieces (by Karl Fabel), prize-winning problems and records separated by theme and has coloring, imitator, fairy, and pedagogical collections by Philippe Schnoebelen.

[edit] Adventure Games

Janko.at provides an introduction, preface, walkthrough, hints, cheats, photos, and total conception description, explanation, and evaluation for the adventure-style games Isis, Gabriel Knight 2, and Phantasmagoria.

[edit] Awards, Honors, Accomplishments, and Reviews

  • Since 17 October 1999, Janko.at has had 1,769,748 visitors according to its site access counter.
  • Listinus ranks Janko.at's Recipe Collection in 8th place out of 50. [3]
  • According to Raetselmann, Janko.at is a site that you "absolutely" must visit. (Jan 2002) [4]
  • In May of 2002 Janko.at was chosen as "Homepage of the Week" by Soul Colors because it is a "marvelous example [of] Internet quantity and quality" in the same site and all of the topics it covers, whether "serious, technical or cheerful" are presented in a format that is both "informative and user friendly." "Homepage of the Week" may not seem like much, but coming from a site that has received more than 25 million visitors, it means a lot.[5]
  • In September of 2002, Chessville.com said about Janko.at's "Retrograde Analysis Corner" that it provides a "comprehensive look" into RK chess compositions involving Retrograde analysis. It is “a repository where all retro enthusiasts can find easy access ton material pertaining tons of Retrograde analysis.” [6]
  • In January of 2004, when the newspaper "DiePresse" featured Janko.at in an article, it called Janko.at's extensive collection of Viennese terms (called "Wienerisch") translated into German an "encyclopedia" that can act as an aid for the communication amongst Austrians. [7] See Article
  • Listinus ranks Janko.at's Wienerischin 1st place as the best personal page that contributes to the spread of understanding of Viennese. [3]
  • Alexa.com says that, in every category they measure, Janko.at is more popular than Nikoli, an official puzzle site whose notability and Wiki-worthiness is undisputed by Wikians.[8]

[edit] See Also

Yoogi Puzzle Syndicate specializes in creating Free downloadable computer games based on puzzle & logic.

Miscellaneous Janko Puzzles ₪;

P.M. Magazines ₪;

Puzzle WM ₪

Puzzles from P.M Magazine

Source of many janko puzzles

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[edit] References

  1. ↑ Homepage of Japanese puzzle designer Mitsuyoshi Sato
  2. ↑ Decimal Lattices - This page uses 7-limit/neutral third lattice to graph scales based on or approximated to the Miracle temperament.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Listinus
  4. ↑ RaetselMann
  5. ↑ Seelen Farben
  6. ↑ Chessville
  7. ↑ DiePresse
  8. ↑ Alexa
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