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LAP online tutorial movie now available

Monday, October 6, 2003 LAP Online Tutorial screenshot

Following the success of the PAP (Pic-a-Pix) Online Tutorial, Conceptis has launched a new tutorial movie for LAP (Link-a-Pix) puzzles. Conceptis puzzle fans can now view the LAP tutorial online or download it and send to their friends.

There’s no better way of figuring out how a picture-forming logic puzzle is solved than seeing it done in a movie one step at a time. That’s why Conceptis decided to continue the tradition and create a LAP Online Tutorial as well. In addition to helping learn about solving LAP, this one-of-a-kind tutorial is also a great way to continue making these puzzles even more popular all over the world.

In parallel to releasing the new LAP tutorial, Conceptis has also improved the looks and functionality of the PAP Online Tutorial. With that, both Conceptis Online Tutorials now have the same “look and feel”.

In July 19, 2002 Jeffrey Hitchin, a devoted Conceptis community member, posted comment on the Forum saying "I really want to get others to enjoy these puzzles, too, so I don't feel quite so alone outside of the Conceptis Forums and the internet, however my luck has been quite bad" (jhitchin, USA, "Getting others into doing picture-forming logic"). The new LAP Online Tutorial is yet another step in meeting Jeffrey's as well as other community member's needs.

According to Dave Green, president of Conceptis Puzzles, the LAP and PAP tutorial movies, which are downloadable from the Online Tutorials section, are an ideal recruiting-tool for new community members. Visitors to Conceptis’ website who want to introduce these whimsical picture-forming logic puzzles to their friends and relatives, are encouraged to download the files and distribute them to anyone as they please.

Puzzle enthusiasts in more than 20 countries

LAP Online Tutorial is a lively educative application, providing a quick and easy way of understanding how LAP puzzles should be solved. Using Flash™ animation, the 72-step tutorial presents a puzzle of a sailboat being solved from beginning to end, one step at a time. Using control buttons, the viewer can play the movie step-by-step or continuously from beginning to end. The viewer can also skip steps, jump forward of backward, or even freeze the solution's progress at any point in the movie.

Zemah Ben-Moshe, a graphic artist and a Flash animation developer, is the person behind the LAP Online Tutorial. Ben-Moshe is also the person responsible for the PAP Online Tutorial, and for the graphic design of the LAP online applet.

According to Conceptis' sales figures and to the company's website activity indicators, by now there are thousands of puzzle enthusiasts in more than 20 countries, who are solving both printed and online LAP puzzles on a regular basis.

At the beginning of April 2003, following the success of LAP puzzles in magazines, and the many positive reviews received from puzzlers in the Netherlands, UK, USA, Japan, Israel and other countries across the world, Conceptis released an online version of LAP and announced LAP Online - the world's first and only software for playing these exciting picture-forming logic puzzles.

I NEED more Link-a-Pix!!!!

A wave of responses from newly addicted puzzle fans quickly followed. Here are some comments posted by LAPoholics on Conceptis forums soon after the launching:

"Hi all. Where can I get more Link-A-Pix puzzles please? The one I have found on here great. Especially the large ones (Beatles etc) but I want more of them. Can't find any outside this site. Thanks, Ian" (gams, United Kingdom, "More Link-A-Pix please" 29 May 2002)
"I NEED more Link-a-Pix!!!! I love working on them online. I usually do the ones that we have here on the site at least 2x. I've always loved the pic-a-pix...but these have got me mesmerized! If anyone can guide me to some online sources... I would love you forever!" (sniggle, USA, "More Link-A-Pix please" 17 Apr 2003)
"LAP puzzles are so cool! But I prefer puzzles in color, they are easier (I think) and the picture is nicer. I'd like it very much if there were more on this site. Bye from Holland" (smartgirl885, The Netherlands, "More Link-A-Pix please" 21 Apr 2003)
“I must that they are super. I also buy the magazine, but the online version much easier to play. My compliments! From Holland, Bert. PS Are there any other sites where I can play them online?” (aaherk, The Netherlands, "Online Link-a-pix" 18 Apr 2003)

Continuing to boom in magazines and mobile phones around the world

As previously published in Conceptis' PUZZLETIMES, LAP puzzles first originated from Japan where they have been invented and are manually created by several puzzle makers. However, to the best of the company's knowledge, Conceptis is still the only company in the world, which developed an algorithm for creating LAP puzzles on a computer. Today, Conceptis has the expertise and the capacity to produce and distribute these unique puzzles worldwide.

Together with their online success, LAP puzzles are continuing to boom in magazines and mobile phones around the world. In addition to Zoekplaatjes (Sanoma Uitgevers, the Netherlands), Paint-by-Pairs (Games Magazine, USA), Enigma (Puzzler Media, UK), PictLink (Gakken and Sharp Spacetown, Japan), Oekaki-Link (Sun Magazine, Japan), Number-Net (Cosmic International, Japan), Kimono-to Nedoshito (Logos Publishing, Russia) and Ketten-Puzzles (Gruner + Jahr, Germany), more publishers are in the process of launching these puzzles. The latest publisher this time is Keesing France, with their brand new LAP magazine named Logipix. See more about Logipix in this month's news.

For those of you wanting to remember the early days of LAP, Jeffrey Hitchin's "Diary of a LAP Addict" contains impressions of his first encounter with these puzzles.