Information about gnotski puzzle names.

["Richard Hoelscher" <rah rahga com>]

This is part of a reply to a request-for-context from gnome-i18n...
Some of you may find this useful, others may like a bit of useless trivia.
Enjoy.

The low-down on gnotski puzzle names:

"Red Donkey" may be known better across Europe as "L'Ane Rouge"... The big
block has a picture of a donkey, and it is trying to escape a maze of
fences and pens to get to his carrots (the little pegs).

In real life, the entire group is often called "HuaRongDao", and it uses a
story from "Legend of the Three Kingdoms". General Cao Cao attempts to
pass through HuaRong trail, thinking that Zhuge Liang was too inept to
plan an attack there. He was surprised by Guan Yu's army, and faced an
almost certain defeat. Reminded of past favors, Guan Yu realized he was
honor bound to Cao Cao, and allowed him to pass through.

The block game is slightly diffent, though... Cao Cao gets attacked and
has to find a way through the army to escape the trail. "Trail" and
"Ambush" are the hardest variations of this puzzle.

There are several other real-life block puzzles in this collection. Aside
from "Pennant Puzzle" and "Traffic Jam", there's an entire set of
woodblock puzzles originally manufactured by Minoru Abe called "Minoru
Climb".

All the other puzzles were originally included and named in WEP Klotski.
As far as I know, these particular names are random and meaningless.

-Richard Hoelscher
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