November 2007: Thomas Sing invents Miss Lupun while composing a piece of music on the piano. The puzzle is resulting from harmonics and it is the world`s first puzzle to be solved accoustically.

January 2008: Miss Lupun is translated from music into the language of maths.

March 2008: Miss Lupun gets her today`s appearance, brand logo and brand name. Miss Lupun is an anagram from "Plus Minus". The artificial words hordi (horizontal difference), verdi (vertical difference) and core (correct result) were also minted.

April 2008: Testers of different age groups prove Miss Lupun puzzles for entertainment, orginality and difficulty. Their average times needed to solve the riddles are taken as a basis for the 9 different degrees of difficulty (from very easy to extremely hard).

April 2008: We programme the Miss Lupun generator and the Miss Lupun verifier of uniqueness. Further on, only those carefully selected puzzles are taken into the database that comply with our standards.

May 2008: Brand name and brand logo of Miss Lupun are trademarked in Germany.

July 2008: Miss Lupun is published for the first time in the monthly appearing German-Russian newspaper "Heimat".

November 2008: Miss Lupun arouses a great deal of interest in the regional press "Südkurier" and "Konstanzer Anzeiger".

January 2009: Formation of the Lupun publishing house.

January 2009: Miss Lupun volume 1 is published by author`s edition with 100 puzzles in the degrees of difficulty 1 to 5.

February 2009: Miss Lupun is online and can be visited in Internet. Thanks to firm TanMar in Berlin.

April 2009: Miss Lupun is part of the project "unlimited thinking" and covers half a million of beer coaster around Lake Constance.

May 2009: Brand name and brand logo of Miss Lupun are trademarked in Europe.

June 2009: Miss Lupun is worldwide available as iPhone- and iPod-touch-application in the languages German, English, Russian, French, Italian and Czech.

August 2009: Miss Lupun volume 2 is published by author`s edition with new puzzles in the degrees of difficulty 3 to 7.

September 2009: Miss Lupun is published with great success in "P.M.-Kreativtrainer".

October 2009: Eventually it is possible to play Miss Lupun online (www.misslupun.com). The access rate to our homepage jumps up.

November 2009: Miss Lupun starts as a regular and inherent part of the following print media: Konstanzer Anzeiger, Ravensburger Stadtmagazin, Hochschwarzwald-Kurier, Stadtanzeiger Schwarzwald-Baar, Regionalanzeiger Rottweil, Villingen-Schwenningen and Hochrhein.

January 2010: Miss Lupun starts in print media in Switzerland and is regular and inherent part of the "Kreuzlinger Zeitung" since then.

February 2010: The first Swiss teachers apply the puzzle in their math class and call it pedagogically valuable.

February 2010: The "Deutscher Depeschendienst" issues a report about Miss Lupun with the title "Passion - Number Puzzle Miss Lupun shall conquer the world". A radio report on SWR-4 is following.

February 2010: Miss Lupun volume 3 is published by author`s edition with puzzles in the degrees of difficulty 1 to 8.

February 2010: SWR-4 broadcasts a radio report about the new puzzle Miss Lupun being seriously cult.

March 2010: Miss Lupun starts as a regular and inherent part of the monthly appearing German-Russian newspaper "Heimat".

March/May 2010: German TV reports about the successful puzzle Miss Lupun several times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCW668Oino 

May 2010: Miss Lupun-Team develops further products. The still unpublished board game "With Miss Lupun Math is pure fun" is nominated for the German Lernspiel Award 2010 (www.deutscher-lernspielpreis.de/nominierte/2010). The winner and all games nominated will be presented at the South German game trade show in Stuttgart from 18th to 21st of November 2010. 

 

 Curriculum Vitae from Miss Lupun as PDF