Featured Puzzle – Mirror Akari #2
It’s the spooky season, and what’s more spooky than a darkened hallway? Place jack o’lanterns to light up every cell in the grid. Use the mirrors to your advantage.
Featured Puzzle – Tetroid #1
Spring is coming, a time of renewal. So why not introduce a new puzzle? Today, we have Tetroid, a grid division puzzle. It’s a little like L.I.T.S., except that there are no predefined regions, and you’re using all 5 tetromino shapes.
Featured Puzzle: Einstein Logic #1 – Tricky Treating
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?
Featured Puzzle: Fobidoshi #1 – Jelly Bean Challenge
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.
Featured Puzzle: Happy Day of the Dead!
Feliz Día de los Muertos! This popular Mexican celebration is distinct from Halloween in that it’s meant to reflect upon and honor your ancestors, rather than trick mischievous supernatural creatures. Enjoy today’s Mosaic puzzle!
Featured Puzzle: Heyawake #1
Shade cells in each region equal to the number given. If a region has no number, it may have any number of shaded cells, including zero. The remaining unshaded cells must form a single orthogonally contiguous area.
Featured Puzzle: Heyawake #2 – A Grave Plot
As a beginning necromancer, you’ve been working to influence the planning board for the local graveyard. If you can get the grave layout just right, you’ll be ready to take over the world!
Featured Puzzle: Heyawake #3
Shade cells in each region equal to the number given. If a region has no number, it may have any number of shaded cells, including zero. The remaining unshaded cells must form a single orthogonally contiguous area.
Featured Puzzle: Heyawake #4
Shade cells in each region equal to the number given. If a region has no number, it may have any number of shaded cells, including zero. The remaining unshaded cells must form a single orthogonally contiguous area.
Featured Puzzle: Hide and Seek Solitaire
On this day in 1990, Microsoft added Solitaire to Windows 3.0, as an entertaining way to get users accustomed to using their mouse. At the time, most people were migrating from DOS, which required all commands to be typed. In 2018, they decided to claim the day as National Solitaire Day.
In this grid, we’ve dealt what looks to be a game in the Scorpion or Spider family, but for some reason, the deck included the Jokers and Aces upside-down! Using a few clues, can you figure out where each of them is placed?