Featured Puzzle: Arukone (Number Pairs) #3
Oh, the weather outside is frightful… Connect each pair of identical snowflakes with orthogonal paths.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful… Connect each pair of identical snowflakes with orthogonal paths.
Oh no! There’s a terrible blizzard, and only one reindeer can guide the way! You must place reindeer and snow in each region of the grid to guide Santa. As we all know, reindeer fly, and snow falls, which is key to solving this puzzle.
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.
Boxing Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, usually the day after Christmas. Originally, it was the day that alms boxes were opened, and the contents distributed among the poor. Today, some of that spirit remains, but it’s also a shopping holiday similar to Black Friday. Naturally, it seemed a good fit for a Fold-a-Box puzzle. Draw walls to create pentominoes to box up the various gifts.
You’re the coordinator for this year’s Secret Santa party. Each of your seven guests brought a present for each of the others. You mixed in the gifts from you, and arranged them in a neat grid, with one present for each guest in each row and column. No idea why – you just liked the arrangement. But then the labels fell off of most of them! Fortunately, you were able to remember a bit about how they were arranged. Can you deduce the rest of the labels?
It’s the time of year for every parent’s favorite task. Figure out how to wrap oddly-shaped packages! Of course, for this puzzle, the boxes are invisible! Each bow is already in place, and you must draw the border lines to reveal all the presents.
Today, we’ve got another Gokigen puzzle, with fancy ornaments as clues. Place a slanted line into each cell, using the numbered clues at grid intersections.
One of the best things about the holiday season is the constant stream of baked goods. Today, we’re serving cookies! Draw horizontal and vertical lines to connect all the cookies into a single group.
Okay, Mom and Dad are out shopping. Now’s your chance to snoop for presents! The problem is that it involves a bit of math. They must have hidden them based on your last report card.
Christmas morning is here, but where are the gifts? Use the number clues to pair each tree with the one present that’s under it.