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I'm a software engineer and amateur magician who loves solving puzzles (particularly combinatorial puzzles, and particularly if the solution is useful for magic).

At the moment this site just provides me somewhere to hang the tools that I build to figure out set-ups to use for magic tricks, so that other magicians can use them. However, if you have suggestions for other puzzle/problem-solving tools that I could build and put here, please get in touch (as I said above, I love solving puzzles).

Alphablocks
Finds appropriate letters to use for a spectator-provided list of words when performing The Jerx's Mind Reading Dice trick.
Alphablocks Text
Like the above, but takes the words to divine from a block of text rather than an explicit list. See The Jerx's Ideomotor by Proxy for an example presentation.
Ascrabbological Sign
Finds appropriate sets of Scrabble tiles to use for a given list of words for The Jerx's Ascrabbological Sign trick.
Linguablocks
Like Alphablocks, but the guesses generated for each round are words rather than arbitrary sets of letters.
Linguablocks Text
Like the above, but takes the words to divine from a block of text rather than an explicit list. Or to look at it another way, like Alphablocks Text, but the guesses generated for each round are words rather than arbitrary sets of letters.

What's New

June 15, 2024:

HTTPS support added

I finally got around to implementing support for HTTPS. Long overdue, but it's done.

July 15, 2021:

Alternative solutions for the "blocks" suite of tools

Don't like the solution you got? Ban the bit you don't like, or just "try again" for a randomised solution. Works with the Alphablocks, Alphablocks Text, Linguablocks and Linguablocks Text tools.

June 29, 2021:

Linguablocks and Linguablocks Text tools added

Like the equivalent Alphablocks tools, but the letters used as the guesses in each round form words.

June 7, 2021:

Beatly Chrome extension added

A Chrome extension that extracts song lyrics from AZlyrics.com and copies them to the clipboard, provided by David K. This streamlines getting song lyrics into one of the tools during a performance.

May 16, 2021:

Alphablocks Text tool added

Like the Alphablocks tool, but instead of providing an explicit list of words, it uses words of a given length extracted from a provided block of text.

May 1, 2021:

Alphablocks tool added

Like the Ascrabbological Sign tool, but works with an arbitrary list of words, for example provided by a spectator.

Jan. 1, 2021:

Ascrabbological Sign tool released

Tool for The Jerx's Ascrabbological Sign trick.