Master of QYI Puzzle Series: Challenging Brainteaser Puzzles to Print and Play

Master of QYI Puzzle Series: Challenging Brainteaser Puzzles to Print and Play

This brainteaser puzzle series consist of sixty individual puzzles that vary in difficulty depending on the player’s reasoning and problem-solving skills and the puzzle design. Beware, because these brainteasers are extremely addictive and solving one QYI Puzzle will not be enough to satisfy your puzzle craving.

This brainteaser puzzle series consist of sixty individual puzzles that vary in difficulty depending on the player’s reasoning and problem-solving skills and the puzzle design. Beware, because these brainteasers are extremely addictive and solving one QYIPuzzle will not be enough to satisfy your puzzle craving.

Creating the Master of QYI Puzzle Series has been a labor of love for more than 12 years. It was originally designed to challenge myself to create a brainteaser puzzle that I would not be able to solve, because there hasn’t been a puzzle that I couldn’t solve. Well, the Master of QYI Puzzle Series was solved. Yes, everyone one of the puzzles.

In 2006, I decided to have the Master of QYI Puzzle Series test-played using unbiased offline board game testers and online board game testers from Boardgamegeek.com and after some adjustments and tweaking the puzzles were ready to manufacture. However, manufacturing plans were changed and eventually put on hold.

Until now, the Master of QYI Puzzle Series has been on hold for nearly two-full years. Instead, I determined that it would be better to release the brainteaser puzzles on the Internet for free of charge with no strings attached and nothing to purchase. Just printout the QYI Puzzle that you want to play and happy solving and once you have solved the puzzle that you had chosen, then just select a different one and follow the same steps as you did with the last puzzle that you printed out to play.

The brainteaser puzzle series that has been published on the Internet is not the full-fledged commercial version, because to printout this version would require players to use too much of their printer ink. So, the Master of QYI Puzzle Series has been scaled down to accommodate the players and not to waste printer ink.

Players still must provide their own colored game pieces, in which was thought about in the process of designing the series for the Internet. Fruit Loops Cereal, jelly beans, Spree Candy, Sweet-Tarts and colored plastic bingo chips make excellent “Master of QYI Puzzle Series” game pieces. The color of the cereal and candies closely matches the color spaces of the puzzle board (some cereal and candies colors may be a little lighter in color than as seen on puzzle board, but still works well as game pieces).

The Master of QYI Puzzle Series has proven in some of the testing that players who are suffering from A.D.D. have experienced sufficient attention improvement when playing QYI Puzzles at least a couple of times per week. Although, the testing has not been scientific, it has been tested for over two years and with both children and adults with and without suffering from the affects of “Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.)”.

Master of QYI Puzzle Series is recommended for players ages 8 and up and possessing any problem-solving skill level.

One of the most challenging tasks that have been facing the prospects of bringing the puzzle series to the Internet has been locating the technology that could deliver the puzzles to any user and using any computer operating system (OS). Originally, I attempted to bring the puzzles to the world using my online publisher Triond, but due to the layering that in required laying the puzzles out, it was found un-doable.

Since I had decided that I wanted anyone in the world to be able to printout the puzzles and solve the brainteasers it was important that the distribution method was free to use for carrying out this assignment. Luckily, after a grueling search, a distribution source was discovered and now, the first “10” Master of QYI Puzzles are available for the public and totally, free.

Master of QYI Puzzle #1

This puzzle is considered to be a low master level puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires players an estimated 3 to 6 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #2

This puzzle is considered to be a high advanced level puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires players an estimated 2 to 4 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #3

This puzzle is considered to be a mid-level master puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires an estimated 4 to 8 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #4

This puzzle is considered to be a mid-level advanced puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires players an estimated 2 to 3 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #5

This puzzle in considered to be a mid-level easy puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires players an estimate 20 to 45 minutes to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #6

This puzzle is considered to be a low level advanced puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires players an estimated 1 to 3 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #7

This puzzle is considered to be a mid-level easy puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires an estimated 30 minutes to 2 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #8

This puzzle in considered to be a mid-level advanced puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires an estimated 2 to 3 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #9

This puzzle in considered to be a mid-level master puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires an estimated 4 to 8 hours to solve.

Master of QYI Puzzle #10

This puzzle is considered to be a mid-level easy puzzle in the commercial version and usually requires an estimated 45 minutes to 2 hours to solve.

The exact amount of time it takes to solve each of the brainteaser puzzles above depends on the individual player’s reasoning and problem-solving skills. Some people are naturally good at solving brainteaser puzzles and they may be able to solve the puzzles in less than the estimated solve times given in each description. Other people might discover that it takes them longer than the estimated solve time shared in each puzzle description.

Stay tuned as other “Master of QYI Puzzle Series” puzzles will be published on the Internet to be printed and played totally for free. Bookmark this article, so not to forget where to find the “Master of QYI Puzzle Series” in the future.

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Gerlaine, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

Very interesting. I went to look for the puzzles, but no find.

Lauren Axelrod, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

These are cool Nelson. I am going to try some of these.

nobert soloria bermosa, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

nice stuff Nelson,worth a try

Nelson Doyle, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

Hi Gerlaine -

I just checked the links to make sure that I linked to them correctly and I had no problems pulling the puzzles up. You may need to update your Adobe Reader to Adobe 9.0 – it’s free.

Thank you Gerlaine, Lauren and Norbert for checking out the puzzles and I hope that you all find some enjoyment from solving them.

I am working very hard to convert the other 50 puzzles to a non-commercial version and they too will be published on the Internet soon. I am trying to publish 5 to 10 puzzles each week and too I am planning on introducing some board games that my company GameStar Designs Inc., had not published commercially, too.

God Bless,

Nelson Doyle

Ruby Hawk, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

What a wonderful thing to do after putting so much thought and work into this project. You are indeed a good man.

Nelson Doyle, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

Thank you, Ruby for your most kind comment.

I have always said that I didn’t design games, just to shelf them after the designs were completed. GameStar Designs Inc., was so focused on marketing and distributing Smear Strategy Card Game commercially that we just did not have enough available time to produce any of the other 300+ games and puzzles that I had designed over the last 20-plus years.

One of the biggest goals that I have had was to bring the games and puzzles to the public one way or the other. I feel that games and puzzles are meant to be played and enjoyed and well, if I don’t make any money from them, then that’s OK, too. I didn’t start off designing games, puzzles and toys to make a lot of money in the first place – I designed games, puzzles and toys to entertain the gamers that I use to hang with and my cousins when they were much younger.

I just hope that people take the time to try the games and puzzles that I am offering to them for free. The downside to making them available on the Internet, is that the players must provide their own game pieces. Game pieces are not something that prints out too well on a computer printer, but most everyone has old board games that they can steal pieces from and use them if not using Fruit Loops Cereal, Sweet-tarts, jellybeans, colored buttons or plastic bingo chips.

Please, feel free to share the puzzles with your family and friends or just give them the link to this article and it will point them to the games and puzzles.

God Bless,

Nelson Doyle

B Nelson, posted this comment on Sep 1st, 2008

I love brain teasers.. but its bedtime so I will have to come back and check them out when my brain is more alert, thanks

Nelson Doyle, posted this comment on Sep 2nd, 2008

Hi B Nelson -

Well, if you enjoy brainteasers then I assure you that this puzzle series is only going to be getting harder as I continue publishing new ones in the days and weeks to come. Believe it or not, I still find the puzzles challenging to solve, especially if I haven’t messed with a QYI Puzzle in a while.

You should see the other two puzzle series that I designed to challenge those puzzle-solvers that managed to solve the sixty Master of QYI Puzzles. Here is a hint, the QYI Puzzles were designed, so that they could be solved in twenty-four hours or less. The next series of puzzles are much more complex and usually requires up to 72 hours to solve. The third series of puzzles are much more difficult and if the puzzle-solvers survives, it usually takes as long or longer than 6 months to solve.

I even designed a purely marketing puzzle that is doubtfully the largest Master of QYI Puzzle Series puzzle in the world. It is 10 feet long and 3.5 feet wide and consist of 14,441 game spaces and 12 different colors and it was all hand drawn. I personality prefer to hand draw my prototype board and puzzle boards better than working with computer programs. The creative juices flow uninterrupted when working with your hands.

Happy Solving!

God Bless,

Nelson Doyle

Paul, posted this comment on Sep 6th, 2008

Just tried the puzzles over the past couple of days, and they are difficult to solve in just a few hours. It took me almost 2 days to solve #9 and a couple of hours to solve #10. I haven’t even started on the other puzzles, but it will give me something to work on this weekend.

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