Featured Puzzle: Hide and Seek Solitaire
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Featured Puzzle: Hide and Seek Solitaire

On this day in 1990, Microsoft added Solitaire to Windows 3.0, as an entertaining way to get users accustomed to using their mouse. At the time, most people were migrating from DOS, which required all commands to be typed. In 2018, they decided to claim the day as National Solitaire Day.

In this grid, we’ve dealt what looks to be a game in the Scorpion or Spider family, but for some reason, the deck included the Jokers and Aces upside-down! Using a few clues, can you figure out where each of them is placed?

Featured Puzzle: Nurimaze #2 – A House Full of Dracula
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Featured Puzzle: Nurimaze #2 – A House Full of Dracula

No, it’s not an early Halloween puzzle – today is World Dracula Day! In 1897, Bram Stoker published his infamous novel. Interestingly, he didn’t make much money from it, but in 1922, the film Nosferatu inflamed interest in the character. Stoker’s widow sued for copyright infringement, and Dracula became the iconic vampire, even though he wasn’t the first.

Today, you’re trapped in a castle with a coven of vampires, and you must escape. But Dracula is clever – there are walls everywhere! Can you discover the secret doors and the path of escape?

Featured Puzzle: Tile Paint #3 – A Day in the Garden
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Featured Puzzle: Tile Paint #3 – A Day in the Garden

With as intense as things have been in the news, finding time to relax and reset matters more than ever. Today is Garden Meditation Day. Its exact origins may be unclear, but the idea of meditation surrounded by nature is hardly new. Popularized in Chinese and Japanese cultures, the beauty of a meditation garden gradually spread to the West. So take some time for yourself today, maybe enjoy a Tile Paint puzzle.

Featured Puzzle: Train Tracks #1
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Featured Puzzle: Train Tracks #1

In 2008, Amtrak wanted to raise awareness about the history and benefits of rail travel. They declared National Train Day to fall on the Saturday closest to May 10th each year. May 10th is the anniversary of the pounding of the Golden Spike in Provost, Utah, which completed the first transcontinental railroad. Amtrak discontinued their endorsement of the holiday in 2015, but rail fans continue to celebrate.

In a Train Tracks puzzle, you must connect the two stations with a single rail route, including all the given tracks.