Featured Puzzle: Stitches #4 – Creature
Igor! The flesh is loose on my masterpiece! Sew it together, following my specifications exactly – quickly, for a storm is approaching, and we must bring him to life tonight!
Featured Puzzle: Stone on Stone #1
As you might have noticed by now, I love the various cell-shading puzzles. Today, we’re taking a look at another Nikoli creation – Stostone. In English, it’s generally known as Stone on Stone. Like Heyawake, you must shade cells according to the numbers in the regions, but there are a few unique requirements.
Featured Puzzle: Stone on Stone #2
Today, we’re stacking rocks! Stone on Stone is a cell-shading puzzle, in which your goal is to find hidden blocks of contiguous cells.
Featured Puzzle: Sukaku #1
Sukaku is an interesting variant of Sudoku. Rather than the standard format of revealing a few known numbers, you are instead given pencilmarks. As a matter of fact, another name for this puzzle is Pencilmark Sudoku. Otherwise, normal Sudoku rules apply. Fill the grid with 1-9 in such a way that no row, column, or 3×3 region contains a duplicate.
Featured Puzzle: Tents & Trees #3
Some brave souls decided to brave the still-chilly evening temperatures and take a camping trip. But where should they set up? This park has oddly-specific rules for tent placement…
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: The Keys to Hanukkah
Happy Hanukkah! Today, we’ve got a special word puzzle. Each row is a series of anagrams. The two down words are keywords. In each row, you start with a 3-letter word. Then, you add that row’s letter from the first down answer, and create a new 4-letter word. Finally, you add the letter from the second down word, and rearrange to form a new 5-letter word.
Featured Puzzle: Thoughts on Halloween
Looks like the letters in this quote have all fallen down. Rearrange the letters in each column to find out what’s being said.
Featured Puzzle: Tile Paint #1
Similar to a nonogram, Tile Paint puzzles reveal a picture. Each region must be fully shaded, or empty. Numbers indicate the total of shaded cells in their row or column.
Featured Puzzle: Tile Paint #2
As we’re coming up on the end of November, I wanted to do another Tile Paint puzzle. Hopefully you enjoy my ongoing process of learning pixel art. Shade cells in the grid to reveal a picture!