Featured Puzzle: Bricks #1
“All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall.” On this day in 1979, Pink Floyd released one of their most well-known concept albums. The Wall sold over 30 million copies. Today, we celebrate with a Bricks puzzle.
“All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall.” On this day in 1979, Pink Floyd released one of their most well-known concept albums. The Wall sold over 30 million copies. Today, we celebrate with a Bricks puzzle.
Today, we have a simple Bricks puzzle.
Fill in the grid with the numbers 1 to 8 without repeating a digit in any row or column.
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?
In Futoshiki, your goal is to fill the grid with numbers from 1-7, without repeating a digit in any row or column. Inequality symbols between cells always point to the smaller number.
Back in my youth, one of the sillier worksheets we used to get in math class was the number comparison worksheet. the teacher used to explain the greater-than and less-than symbols as, “the alligator easts the larger number.” That got me thinking that it would be a fun way to theme a Futoshiki puzzle.
September 9th is International Sudoku Day! So, today’s puzzle is Jigsaw Sudoku. The rules are pretty much the same as regular Sudoku, with irregular regions instead of 3×3.
“I want to play a game.” Jigsaw has scrambled the regions of a Sudoku grid and placed all the answers in cages! Can you still solve it?
Mathrax originated on the German puzzle website janko.at. Fill in numbers from 1 to 9, such that no row or column contains any duplicate numbers. Sounds pretty normal so far, right? Now let’s add math!
Mathrax originated on the German puzzle website janko.at. Fill in numbers from 1 to 7, such that no row or column contains any duplicate numbers. Sounds pretty normal so far, right? Now let’s add math!
Today is National Elephant Appreciation Day, so I thought it would be a cute theme for a Mathrax puzzle. Fill in the grid with the numbers 1-9 so that no digit repeats in any row or column.