It’s nearly time for trick-or-treating! To get you in the mood, today is an Einstein-style logic puzzle. This block has four houses. Four children, each in different costumes, visit different ones. Of course, they are each giving away different treats. Can you deduce what costume each child wore, which house they visited, and what they received?
Brush off your times tables, because I have one more back-to-school themed puzzle for you. In Factorism, your goal is to place the numbers 1 through 9 along the top and left of the grid. Numbers in the grid are the product of the factors for that row and column.
Fillomino is another popular Japanese puzzle. Divide the grid into polyomino regions that each contain a single number, ranging from 1-9.
Fillomino is a popular Japanese puzzle. Divide the grid into polyomino regions that each contain a single number, ranging from 1-9.
Fillomino is a popular Japanese puzzle. Divide the grid into polyomino regions that each contain a single number, ranging from 1-9.
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.
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.
Sure, most people are celebrating Earth Day today, but a fun lesser-known holiday is National Jelly Bean Day! (By the way, google “national jelly bean day” – I was pleasantly surprised when I did.) I couldn’t find any details on the origin, though. My guess is that It started as an internet meme excuse to gorge on leftover Easter candy.
Anyway, today’s puzzle is Fobidoshi, using jelly beans on a grid, of course! I’ve started you with a few.
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!
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.
