Featured Puzzle: Bunnies & Trees #2
You’re a nature photographer, and today’s subject is bunny rabbits. Use the clues in the camera lenses to place one bunny and one tree in each row and column.
Featured Puzzle: Calcudoku #1
Calcudoku is the generic name for a Sudoku variant known better by the trademarked titles KenKen or Kendoku. To make things a little easier, I color-coded regions with the same math operation.
Featured Puzzle: Candy Box
Everyone loves candy, so you picked up a box as a gift. The problem is, they only want a specific set of pieces, and none of them can touch each other, even diagonally. Can you figure out what you need to remove, leaving only the candy that fits their preference?
Featured Puzzle: Chain Sudoku #1
I learned about Chain Sudoku puzzles fairly recently, and thought they’d make for a visually cool presentation. This form was popularized under the trademarked name Strimko, which was invented in 2008 by the Grabarchuk family. They’re similar to Jigsaw Sudoku puzzles, with jumbled regions, except they are not necessarily orthogonally contiguous.
Featured Puzzle: Coffee Milk #2 – Time for S’mores!
Want to make a child happy? Start a fire and add sugar! Slathering a melted marshmallow between two graham crackers with some chocolate has to be the best childhood treat, especially when combined with a little camaraderie around a campfire. Today, we’re re-theming a Coffee Milk puzzle to make some gooey snacks, in honor of National Graham Cracker Day.
Featured Puzzle: Coffee Milk #3 – More S’mores, Please!
Yes, we just did S’mores for National Graham Cracker Day about a month ago, but turns out there’s a National S’mores Day too! I certainly won’t say no to more gooey snacks over a campfire. So let’s go for another round!
Connect one set of graham crackers with marshmallows and chocolate to create s’more groups.
Featured Puzzle: Comparison Sudoku #1 (+ Windoku)
Oh no! The creatures in the grid have hidden all the numbers of this Sudoku puzzle! Fortunately, you still have some clues.
Featured Puzzle: Comparison Sudoku #2
Happy Baba Marta Day! This is a Bulgarian holiday to celebrate Grandmother Martha, the bringer of spring. Observers exchange and wear red and white tassels, called Martenitsas to guard against evil. Once the wearer has seen a stork or blossoming tree, they remove the Martenitsa and hang it from the tree.
Today’s puzzle, colored to resemble a Martenitsa, is Comparison Sudoku.
Featured Puzzle: Crossword – Cornucopia
One popular table decoration represents the autumn harvest. The cornucopia, or “Horn of Plenty,” has been used as a symbol of abundance since ancient Greece. Now, it’s usually shown filled with fruits and nuts, and is commonly associated with Thanksgiving in North America.
Today’s puzzle is a small crossword, playable right here on this page! All of the answers are words formed with letters found in the word “CORNUCOPIA.” No letters are used more than once in an answer, unless they actually appear multiple times in our theme word. Good luck!
Featured Puzzle: Detective Chess #1
I first saw a Detective Chess puzzle about a year ago, and the concept intrigued me. Invented by Jaime Poniachik in the late 1970s or early 80s, and received notoriety in Martin Gardner’s Puzzles from Other Worlds, published in 1981. Today is International Chess Day, so this seemed an appropriate puzzle. Can you figure out which chess pieces goes where?