Object: re-create the given knots, play with knots, create your own. 
 
The following text assumes that you are familiar with the game 'Knots II', hence most information given there will not be repeated here. Knots III uses the same string manipulations as Knots II.
Knots III has been especially designed for large Knots.
 
Because of the size of the board, the knots you have to recreate are not displayed on a separate board as in Knots II, but rather as background image on the same board. As a further help, a smaller copy of the target knot is displayed on the lower right.
 
You win if you can recreate the given knot.
 
Variants 1 - 5 : These are Knots which I had designed once for the wire-and-string puzzles which I produce and sell in several sizes, from 3 to 30 cm diameter. (Version 2.0 of the original game 'Knots' also contains some of my designs.) Here you have to create the wire-part of these puzzles from a small loop; the string has been omitted.
Variants 6 - 14 : similar to variants 1 - 4, but the string (second loop) has to be attached as well. This makes the construction more difficult. (Note that in the actual wire puzzles the task is rather the opposite of the task given here; in the real puzzles you have to the string out without bending the wire. This task will be tackled by the game 'Knots 4'.)
 
There are also several freeplay-variants with a blank board:
Variant 'Freeplay 1': one small loop given.
Variant 'Freeplay 2': one piece of string given.
Variant 'Freeplay 3': two pieces of string given.
Variant 'Freeplay 4 (easy)': This is the most luxurious variant of Knots III. It is designed to create and manipulate knots very fast. Some features available in this variant are withheld from all other variants to make the puzzles more challenging. Extra features in Freeplay 4:
- You can cut the string into any number of pieces (move straight onto adjacent straight).
- You can turn upside a (top-layer or bottom-layer) self-intersecting string part simply by clicking the intersection.
 
The freeplay variants sometimes cause a 'too many moves generated' message. In these cases try to keep your string in a smaller area at first.
 
This game works best with SMART MOVES turned OFF!
 
More freeware as well as real puzzles and games at my homepage http://karl.kiwi.gen.nz.