Puzzle solving resources

[Zag]

Sorry, this is not a puzzle, but I figured here is the most appropriate place to ask: What are your favorite online resources for solving puzzles? Here are some of mine

This is my favorite for crossword-style questions. You enter both a pattern and the clue, and it sorts the pattern results according to keywords in the clue. http://www.oneacross.com/

Another site for searching words with specific patterns, anagrams, etc. http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/

Cryptogram solver that is fast and gives multiple choices: http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WebDecrypto/index.php

Java applet cryptogram solver: Not very good on its own but supports self-solving (i.e. you change a letter and it will change all instances of that letter and prevents conflicts if that letter already appears). http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/cryptogram/

The definitive anagram solver, allows for options like min word length: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

TinEye Reverse Image search: http://www.tineye.com/ They also have Chrome and Firefox plug-ins which add "Search Image on TinEye" to the right-click menu for any image.

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences™: http://oeis.org/

[Suspence]

Like you, I use Decrypto for cryptograms, and Wordsmith.org for anagrams.

I use this site for a crossword solver by pattern:
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/crossword.html
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[groza528]

When you have parts that you can start putting together, I like
htttp://margana.runslinux.net for "find all words that can be made with these letters"
www.onelook.com for "Find any words that match this pattern" (also good for *making* puzzles)
I do use OneAcross as well, but it has actually been less helpful than I would like.

[Suspence]

For "find all words that can be made with these letters", I use Wordsmith.org's Advanced Anagramming page, selecting "Show candidate word list only".

For a Morse code solver, I use http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

I've never really been satisfied with any ascii/hex/dec/oct converters, so I wrote my own in Excel, along with an numeral-to-alpha converter, and Caesar shift converter.
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[Zag]

Oh, sure. Now that the Microsoft Puzzle hunt is over, you guys come out of the woodwork with ideas.

[groza528]

Oh, is THAT why you were asking.

[Suspence]

Just found this today, but it would have been very helpful for the Microsoft Puzzle Hunt, given the first puzzle Zag posted.

Solver for pentominoes (and other shapes)
http://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/polysolver.htm
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[johnwood]

Another very good site for puzzle solving is scrabble cheats:
http://www.scrabblecheats.com/

[Zag]

Wow, his only post. I almost hope that's spam, since it would represent the most well-targeted spam in the universe.