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.
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?
Happy Presidents Day! Today, I put together a puzzle with a presidential quote, then broke it up into polyominoes. Simply assemble them in the grid above to reveal the wisdom from the past.
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…
Today, we have a Pure Loop puzzle. Draw a route that visits all empty cells without crossing itself or branching.
Hidden in this grid is a specific battleship fleet, pictured below. It contains a Carrier, two Battleships, three Cruisers, four Destroyers, and five Submarines. Given that no ship may be adjacent to another in any direction, can you deduce the correct positions?
Everyone loves candy, so you picked up a gift box. The problem is, they only want a specific set of pieces, and none of them can touch each other, even diagonally. Can you deduce which of the possible placements to fill in with the candy that fits their preference?
I wanted to do something different than the standard Mastermind-style Crack the Code puzzles. Sometime back, I stumbled across this Dutch presentation of the concept, which uses a series of equation clues.
When he took a fantasy wargame and created his own rules focused on small-scale combat with only a few individuals, Gary Gygax started a revolution. Gradually, Chainmail evolved into Dungeons and Dragons, and the concept of role-playing games was born. When he passed away in 2008, fans around the world declared his birthday, July 27th, to be Gary Gygax Day. So let’s celebrate with a new type of puzzle!
Shikaku is a popular area division game, often used to teach about the area of rectangles. Divide the grid into a series of rectangles. Each rectangle must contain one and only one number.
