Rudolph with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight? In today’s puzzle, try to find all 19 words that include the letter R. You may use letters more than once. Rudolph, of course, is a given, so he doesn’t count in this reindeer game.
t’s been months since we’ve done a Gokigen puzzle. Let’s take a break from all the schoolwork puzzles to relax and draw some diagonal lines. Place slanted lines in every cell of the grid, using the clues to help you figure out the direction of each one.
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?
