The Open Puzzle Book is a collection of puzzles created with open source software intended to attract average people to it with the puzzles, but at the same time, contain tidbits of information about the puzzles and the open source software and operating system used in the creation of the book. The book itself is being created in the spirit of open source. The creation is being done with only open source tools and operating systems and anybody can contribute. Contributors will be credited appropriately in the final work.

Guidelines For Contribution:
• Everything must be done using open source tools
• Formatting should match or be close to the existing formatting
• Text fonts should be "Arial Rounded MT Bold" at 12pt
• Submitted pages should be in the OpenOffice.org ODT file format

Here's the font file:
ARLRDBD.TTF.zip 30.2KB

To install this file:
On Linux, just extract the TTF file and copy or move it to ~/.fonts in order to use it.
In Windows, you can go to the fonts section of the control panel and put it there.

What's Needed:
• Crossword
• Word Search
• Maze
• Logic
• Riddles

What's Finished:
• Sudoku

This can be expanded with suggestions from users.
Graphics are needed for the cover to go along with these different types of puzzles. The existing graphic is only a sample using Sudoku.

To download what's been completed so far, choose the file below:
  open-puzzle-book2008-10-12.odt   Filed: Oct. 12, 2008.