Today’s the day of the total solar eclipse! Thousands of people have traveled to visit the path of totality. As you know, a solar eclipse happens when the moon passes in front of the sun. So let’s play with that theme. This grid is divided into regions. Draw a single closed loop that visits every region.
Place exactly one star and one cloud in each row and column to light the moons as shown. Stars give light, while clouds block it.
Place exactly one star and one cloud in each row and column to light the moons as shown. Stars give light, while clouds block it.
Place exactly one star and one cloud in each row and column to light the moons as shown. Stars give light, while clouds block it.
Happy Rubber Ducky Day! I swear, there’s an internet holiday for just about everything. The first patent for a rubber duck was by Landon Smart Lawrence in 1928. But the version we know and love today was designed in the 1940s by sculptor Peter Ganine. He sold millions, but of course, popularity really soared thanks to Ernie on Sesame Street.
Today, we’re retheming a Japanese puzzle called Nondango. Dango is a popular street food, small balls made from rice flour skewered on bamboo sticks. But I thought instead of simply shading circles, we could hide some rubber ducks.
A relatively new trend is the world of speed-dating. A large group of eligible singles gather in one place, and spend a few minutes with other people seeking romantic partners. They quickly gauge their interest in each other, then a bell rings, and they move on to the next potential partner. If nothing else, it’s a way to train your social skills in learning to talk to strangers.
So let’s make it a puzzle!
On this day in 1858, Hymen Lipman received US Patent # 19,783 for a pencil with an attached eraser. Sure, it was later rescinded because it wasn’t a new device, but just a composite of two existing products, but we still celebrate the day as National Pencil Day.
Much later, in 2017, a Japanese teenager submitted a new puzzle themed around pencils to Nikoli magazine that quickly gained popularity, because it seemed to capture the essence of solving pencil puzzles.
Draw pencils into the grid. Each pencil must also draw a line as long as itself, so that all grid cells are used.
It’s that time of year again! Head to the store with a list for pencils, pens, tissue paper, a new design for your Trapper Keeper — wait, wrong decade… Anyway, today we have another Pencils puzzle. I still love that this particular type of puzzle was invented by a student.
Draw pencils into the grid. Each pencil must also draw a line as long as itself, so that all grid cells are used.
Shikaku is a popular area division game, often used to teach about the area of rectangles. Divide the grid into a series of rectangles. Each rectangle must contain one and only one number.
Today, we have another Shikaku puzzle! Divide the grid into a series of rectangles. Each rectangle must contain one and only one number. That number must match the area of the rectangle.
