Featured Puzzle: Munraito (Sun & Moon) #2
Place exactly one star and one cloud in each row and column to light the moons as shown. Stars give light, while clouds block it.
Featured Puzzle: Nondango #1 – Rubber Ducky Hunt
Happy Rubber Ducky Day! I swear, there’s an internet holiday for just about everything. The first patent for a rubber duck was by Landon Smart Lawrence in 1928. But the version we know and love today was designed in the 1940s by sculptor Peter Ganine. He sold millions, but of course, popularity really soared thanks to Ernie on Sesame Street.
Today, we’re retheming a Japanese puzzle called Nondango. Dango is a popular street food, small balls made from rice flour skewered on bamboo sticks. But I thought instead of simply shading circles, we could hide some rubber ducks.
Featured Puzzle: Number Chain #2
I enjoy various path puzzles, and Number Chain is an interesting one. Your goal is to find the route from the upper left corner to the bottom right corner of the grid, traveling only up, down, left, or right.
Featured Puzzle: Paint by Pairs #2 – Kakizome
I love finding unique holidays to theme a puzzle around. In Japan, Kakizome takes place on the second of January. It’s meant to celebrate one of the major traditional arts – calligraphy. This practice began as a court event during the Heian era during the late 8th century. They would make ink with water drawn on the morning of the first day, then write short aspirational poetry for the year.
Featured Puzzle: Pure Loop #2
Today, we have a Pure Loop puzzle. Draw a route that visits all empty cells without crossing itself or branching.
Featured Puzzle: Slitherlink #2
For today, we’ll play a popular loop puzzle called Slitherlink, or sometimes simply Fences. Draw a single closed loop between nodes.
Featured Puzzle: Snake #2
When they’re not in your boot, snakes are often found sunning themselves in some peaceful place. In this grid, you can see the head and the tip of the snake’s tail. Can you safely uncover the rest of its body?
Featured Puzzle: Stitches #2
Cold weather is here, and its time to dig out the quilts and blankets. But you might have an extra houseguest, so it’s time to sew a new one!
Add buttons and stitches so that each region is connected to every neighboring region by one stitch each.
Featured Puzzle: Tetoron #1
When Tetris was in its heyday on computers, I was in high school. I’m not sure how many games I’ve played, but I definitely got to the point where I started seeing tetrominoes everywhere. Maybe the inventor of Tetoron, Nishiyama Yukari, was also a fan. In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into tetromino shapes.
Featured Puzzle: Verbal A-line-ment #1
I wanted to work at least one word puzzle in this month, so here’s a pretty simple one. Place all the letter pairs into the circles so that they spell six 6-letter words, reading across the line to the opposite colored circle. All of the words include the letters ON in the center.
I’ve included the first word to get you started. Happy Blonde Brownie Day!