A traditional gift for Valentine’s Day is a bouquet of flowers, usually roses. Rather than gathering a bunch of identical flowers, I thought it would be more interesting to match up pairs of flowers. Connect each pair of identical flowers with orthogonal paths.
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.
Valentine’s Day is steeped in tradition. Roses and a box of chocolates are probably the most iconic gifts for your romantic partner. You know what else is steeped? Tea! So let’s theme a Milk Tea puzzle for Valentine’s Day. But, there’s a twist! Teasing is also a time-honored tradition in the game of love. So I present to you the Milk Tease variant.
Spring is coming, and it’s time to start planting flowers in your garden. One popular method to amend your soil, as well as add some nice contrast, is to lay down mulch. Using the numbered flowers, can you find the area we’re going to fence in and mulch?
