Featured Puzzle: Numbrix #1
Fill in the grid to create a sequential path of numbers from 1-49. Each number must be orthogonally adjacent to the previous and next numbers in order.
Featured Puzzle: Numbrix #3
This grid contains a hidden path, beginning with the number 1, and counting upward to 100. Fill in the missing numbers to reveal it.
Featured Puzzle: Nurimaze #1 – Beware the Ides of March
At one point in history, the Ides of a month was simply the middle of it, associated with the first full moon, due to the origins relating to the lunar cycle. But that forever changed in 44 B.C.E., when Roman senators assassinated Julius Caesar. But, can you change history and help Caesar escape to his waiting chariot?
The palace is divided into rooms. Some are impassable because the traitors have set them ablaze! Shade the impassable rooms to reveal the escape route.
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: Nurimaze #3 – Flee the Castle
You’ve awakened trapped in the vampire castle, and all the doors are hidden! Can you figure out which rooms contain certain death, as well as the way to escape the castle, avoiding vampires, but touching each cross for protection?
Featured Puzzle: Paint by Pairs #1
Today’s puzzle will create a picture! Connect numbers with lines, and then shade them in, leaving only cells without numbers or lines empty.
Featured Puzzle: Pencils #1 – National Pencil Day
On this day in 1858, Hymen Lipman received US Patent # 19,783 for a pencil with an attached eraser. Sure, it was later rescinded because it wasn’t a new device, but just a composite of two existing products, but we still celebrate the day as National Pencil Day.
Much later, in 2017, a Japanese teenager submitted a new puzzle themed around pencils to Nikoli magazine that quickly gained popularity, because it seemed to capture the essence of solving pencil puzzles.
Draw pencils into the grid. Each pencil must also draw a line as long as itself, so that all grid cells are used.
Featured Puzzle: Pencils #2 – Back to School Supplies!
It’s that time of year again! Head to the store with a list for pencils, pens, tissue paper, a new design for your Trapper Keeper — wait, wrong decade… Anyway, today we have another Pencils puzzle. I still love that this particular type of puzzle was invented by a student.
Draw pencils into the grid. Each pencil must also draw a line as long as itself, so that all grid cells are used.
Featured Puzzle: Plan for Trick-or-Treating
One eager ghost is really looking forward to trick-or-treating, and is already planning a route through the neighborhood. Can you find a route that circles the entire neighborhood, visiting every house one time?
Featured Puzzle: Pure Loop #1 – Map the Parade!
You’re in charge of mapping the route for the Thanksgiving Day parade. It has to pass through every block in the city, and end where it begins. Can you deduce the correct path so that every attending citizen gets a chance to see their favorite float? Be on the lookout for a future Pure Loop…