Featured Puzzle: Fillomino #1
Fillomino is another popular Japanese puzzle. Divide the grid into polyomino regions that each contain a single number, ranging from 1-9.
Featured Puzzle: Find the Hidden Pirate Fleet!
Avast, ye landlubbers! See if ye can solve this puzzle for Talk Like a Pirate Day!
A hidden pirate fleet is on the move! Below the grid are the ships that approach through a dense fog, and your only chance is the lighthouses. Each one sees at least part of a ship – the number in the lens is how many segments they see in their row or column.
Featured Puzzle: Flower Sudoku #1
One common Christmas decoration, especially in the southern United States, is the poinsettia flower. In honor of that, today’s puzzle is Flower Sudoku. This is five overlapping Sudoku grids, in which the central grid is completely covered by the four outer grids.
Featured Puzzle: Foil the Gunpowder Plot!
The Royal Guard has discovered Guy Fawkes skulking around in the cellars beneath the House of Lords. He has confessed to a wicked plot, but we must still find the gunpowder with which the plan was to be carried out!
Featured Puzzle: Fold-a-Box #1
When I was a kid, origami was a hobby I delved into with a passion. All these years later, and I just discovered that November 11th is World Origami Day! Today’s puzzle, originally named Yokibunkastu (“container dividing”), is themed around folding, so I thought it would be appropriate for the occasion. Draw walls to form pentomino (5-cell) regions around the paper cranes.
Featured Puzzle: Fold-a-Box #2
Boxing Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, usually the day after Christmas. Originally, it was the day that alms boxes were opened, and the contents distributed among the poor. Today, some of that spirit remains, but it’s also a shopping holiday similar to Black Friday. Naturally, it seemed a good fit for a Fold-a-Box puzzle. Draw walls to create pentominoes to box up the various gifts.
Featured Puzzle: Futoshiki #1 – Secret Santa
You’re the coordinator for this year’s Secret Santa party. Each of your seven guests brought a present for each of the others. You mixed in the gifts from you, and arranged them in a neat grid, with one present for each guest in each row and column. No idea why – you just liked the arrangement. But then the labels fell off of most of them! Fortunately, you were able to remember a bit about how they were arranged. Can you deduce the rest of the labels?
Featured Puzzle: Galaxies #1 – Wrapping Presents
It’s the time of year for every parent’s favorite task. Figure out how to wrap oddly-shaped packages! Of course, for this puzzle, the boxes are invisible! Each bow is already in place, and you must draw the border lines to reveal all the presents.
Featured Puzzle: Gokigen #1
Gokigen Naname, commonly shortened to just Gokigen, is a line placement puzzle. Place a slanted line into each cell, following numbered clues at grid intersections.
Featured Puzzle: Gokigen #2
Today, we’ve got another Gokigen puzzle, with fancy ornaments as clues. Place a slanted line into each cell, using the numbered clues at grid intersections.