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Recipes

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Angela and Otto Janko are very picky about the recipes that they post on Janko.at. They only post quality recipes that they have tried, tested and tasted themselves. They also include the number of calories per portion for each recipe. Many recipes have photos, hints, and tips. The collection has recipes for soups, salads, vegetables, desserts, jams and jellies, breads and rolls, and sauces and dips. Instructions on how to prepare various dishes of poultry, fish, beef, pork, lamb, veal, and wild game are presented. Christmas time recipes are also given.

Viennese dictionary

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Janko.at has an extensive collection of Viennese terms translated into German that can act as an aid for the communication amongst Austrians. Janko.at's Wieneri dictionary deals primarily with select words and a culinary phrases and terms.

Humor and satire

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Janko.at has funny stories on the differences between men and women, on work and economics, computers and the internet, politics and society, cats, cooking, Microsoft and Bill Gates, law, science, research and technology and more. There is a collection of "Requests For Comments" provided by the Internet Engineering Task Force and a collection of Little Red Riding Hood stories, each told by a lawyer, moralist, socialist, psychiatrist and by other professionals and in other styles, like in computer language.

Photographs

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Otto and Angela Janko have award winning photo galleries of their wedding, home garden, and pets. They also have galleries of natural flora and fauna, parks, fairs, and more.

Cats

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Otto and Angela's cats have their own diary, homepage, galleries, guest book, and Rainbow Bridge memorials.

Quotations, aphorisms and wise sayings

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Janko.at's anthology of quotations and aphorisms contains quotes from Einstein, Mark Twain, Franz Christian, and others, and covers love, famous last words and mistakes, and more.
Janko.at also has a collectin of "Reformed Writings" where complicated sentences are translated into every day vernacular. Here's an example:

Ballistic experiments with crystalline H2O on the area of the educational institutions are subject to strict Prohibition!
Translates into...
The throwing of snowballs in the schoolyard is forbidden!

The retrograde analysis corner

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"Retrograde analysis is a technique employed by chess problem solvers to determine which moves were played leading up to a given position."
Janko.at's more than 3500 Retro problems (with solutions) have been compiled from newspapers, chess magazines books, articles, and other sources.

Janko.at features articles by prominent retro authority Alexander George, has a glossary, and an introduction to Retrograde Anaylsis, lists the FIDE rules of chess and the Codex for Chess Compositions and has current Retro tourneys posted.

Janko.at has collections and galleries of Retro masterpieces (by Karl Fabel), prize-winning problems and records separated by theme and has coloring, imitator, fairy, and pedagogical collections by Philippe Schnoebelen.

Adventure games

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Janko.at provides an introduction, preface, walkthrough, hints, cheats, photos, and total conception description, explanation, and evaluation for the adventure-style games Isis, Gabriel Knight 2, and Phantasmagoria.

Awards, honors, accomplishments, and reviews

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  • Since 17 October 1999, Janko.at has had 1,771,702 visitors according to its site visitor counter.
  • Listinus ranks Janko.at's Recipe Collection in 8th place out of 50. [1]
  • In May of 2001, the Everything Cat Directory gave Janko.at a Silver Award for it functional and informative design.
  • In July of 2001, Semmerl and Frauchen Irene presented Janko.at with a Silver Award in Overall Impression saying, "the site is technically perfect," has a great load time, has everything correctly linked, and has proper orthography.
  • In July of 2001, Helmut Heiden gave Janko.at a Silver Award for its photographs that capture the beauty of nature in their home garden.
  • In July of 2001, the home garden magazine "Klein Garten" gave Janko.at a Silver Award in recognition of Otto and Angela Janko's beautiful garden.
  • In October of 2001, IndianSpirits Maine Coon gave Janko.at a "Gold Award in Web Design" for its beautifully designed and informative coverage of the Maine Coon.
  • In November of 2001, Klee & Co. gave Janko.at an "Gold Award" in recognition of its fast-loading, informative, and beautiful design on all of the "interesting topics" it covers, but specifically on the pet pages and their message of life long love, protection, and responsibile pet ownership.
  • According to Raetselmann, Janko.at is a site that you "absolutely" must visit. (Jan 2002) [2]
  • In February of 2002. Samtpfoetchen.de gave Janko.at a Bronze Award for website organization, design and navigation.
  • In May of 2002 Janko.at was chosen as "Homepage of the Week" by Soul Colors because it is a "marvelous example [of] Internet quantity and quality" in the same site and all of the topics it covers, whether "serious, technical or cheerful" are presented in a format that is both "informative and user friendly." "Homepage of the Week" may not seem like much, but coming from a site that has received more than 25 million visitors, it means a lot.[3]
  • In September of 2002, Chessville.com said about Janko.at's "Retrograde Analysis Corner" that it provides a "comprehensive look" into RK chess compositions involving Retrograde analysis. It is “a repository where all retro enthusiasts can find easy access ton material pertaining tons of Retrograde analysis.” [4]
  • In April of 2003, Janko.at recieved the Animal Award from Goofy Noses for its beautiful and clear pages, pictures and pet stories.
  • In September of 2003, the Neufis gave Janko.at Animal Award in acknowledgement of the site's excellent load time, clarity, design, navigation, and information in all covered topics, but especially those animal-related.
  • In January of 2004, when the newspaper "DiePresse" featured Janko.at in an article, it called Janko.at's extensive collection of Viennese terms (called "Wienerisch") translated into German an "encyclopedia" that can act as an aid for the communication amongst Austrians. [5] See Article
  • Listinus ranks Janko.at's Wienerischin 1st place as the best personal page that contributes to the spread of understanding of Viennese. [1]
  • Alexa.com says that, in every category they measure, Janko.at is more popular than Nikoli, an official puzzle site whose notability and Wiki-worthiness is undisputed by Wikians.[6]

Puzzles

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At Janko.at one can find thousands of logic, optimization, concentration, strategy, tactics, skill, number, picture, language and other puzzle types. Some of the puzzles are well-known only in Germany, while others, like Sudoku, are well-known all over the world. Most puzzles can be solved online and nearly all of them have solutions.
For all of the different puzzles, rules, explanations, easy-access solutions, and step-by step guides of examples, are provided.

The symbol " ₪ " will act as a link to Janko.at's page on that particular puzzle.

• ABC Combination ; Akari ; Alphametics ; Analogies; Around the Corner Meant ; Arrow Path ; Arrow Numbers ; Arukone ; Arukone 2 ; Arukone 3 ; A Term Does Not Fit

Battleships ; Black Box ; Blocking Hurrying ; Boulderdash ; Branqueta de Cirera

• C@sumo[7] ; Camp ; Chaos Sudoku ; Clueless-1 Sudoku ; Clueless-2 Sudoku ; Color Flow ; Color Spreading ; Consecutive Sudoku ; Cross Number ; Computing Lattice

Daleks ; Decimal Lattice[8] ; Domino

• Ebony & Ivory [1] ; Eliminator ; Eulero

Fillomino ; Flower Sudoku ; Four-Number ; Futoshiki

• Gattai-8 Sudoku ; Gorapuru ; Grand Route ; Griddlers

Hakyuu (Kouka) ; Hashiwokakero ; Hashiwokakero 2 ; Hebi ; Heyawake ; Historical Mysteries ; Hitori

Iceblox ; Impact Chess ;

Javanoid ; Jigsaw Puzzle ; Jump Game

• Kakurasu ; Kakuro ; Kalkulu ; Kendoku ; Killer Sudoku ; Kuromasu

• Lampions ; Latin Sums ; Lateral Thinking ; Leap Labyrinths ; Letter Salad ; Logicals ; Logic

• Magnets ; Master Mind ; Masyu ; Masyu 2 ; Mathematics ; Math Questions ; Matrix ; Matrix II ; Minesweeper ; Mochikoro ; Moebius ; Mosaic

• Neighbour ; Nibbles ; N-Lady-Problem ; Nonogram ; Number Path ; Number Queue ; Nurikabe

• PanneRotto ; Patchwork ; Pathfinder ; Peg Solitaire ; Pentominos ; Physics Problems; Polyomino ;

• Quadrato Quotation-Mix

Riddles ; Roll Cube ; Rotaro

• Same Game ; Samunamupure ; Samurai Sudoku ; Seek Numbers ; Shooter ; Siji ; Shikaku ; Sliding Puzzle ; Slither Left ; Skyscraper ; Slither Left ; SnakePit ; Sobokan ; Sphinx ; Starlit Sky ; Star Battle ; Sudoku ; Sudoku 2D ; Sudoku with Magic Number ; Sudoku Variants ; Swap Game ;

TacTix ; Tentai Show ; Theseus and Minotaurus ; Tilting Labyrinths ; Trace Numbers ; Triplets ; Trivia Quiz

• Unit Deformation

• Vampire/Haunted Mirror Maze ; Vexed ; Vlak ;

• Windmill Sudoku ; Worm Labyrinths ; Word Search ; Word Transformation

• Zipline

See also

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Yoogi Puzzle Syndicate specializes in creating Free downloadable computer games based on puzzle & logic.

Miscellaneous Janko Puzzles ;

P.M. Magazines ;

Puzzle WM

Puzzles from P.M Magazine

Source of many janko puzzles

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