Featured Puzzle: Shirokuro #1 – Find the Ancestors
Día de los Muertos is almost here, and some people still need to connect with their ancestors. Draw a vertical or horizontal line to connect each of the living with one of the dead.
Día de los Muertos is almost here, and some people still need to connect with their ancestors. Draw a vertical or horizontal line to connect each of the living with one of the dead.
Everyone knows pumpkin pie just isn’t the same without a giant dollop of whipped cream. Draw vertical or horizontal lines to match each serving of pie with that delicious dose of sugar.
It’s the first day of Spring! A time of renewal, when we start seeing beautiful wildflowers, and a lot of young animals. I hear this has something to do with the birds and the bees, so that seems as good a theme for a puzzle as any.
Draw horizontal and vertical lines to match each bee with a bird.
As you might have noticed by now, I love the various cell-shading puzzles. Today, we’re taking a look at another Nikoli creation – Stostone. In English, it’s generally known as Stone on Stone. Like Heyawake, you must shade cells according to the numbers in the regions, but there are a few unique requirements.
Today, we’re stacking rocks! Stone on Stone is a cell-shading puzzle, in which your goal is to find hidden blocks of contiguous cells.
Similar to a nonogram, Tile Paint puzzles reveal a picture. Each region must be fully shaded, or empty. Numbers indicate the total of shaded cells in their row or column.
As we’re coming up on the end of November, I wanted to do another Tile Paint puzzle. Hopefully you enjoy my ongoing process of learning pixel art. Shade cells in the grid to reveal a picture!
With as intense as things have been in the news, finding time to relax and reset matters more than ever. Today is Garden Meditation Day. Its exact origins may be unclear, but the idea of meditation surrounded by nature is hardly new. Popularized in Chinese and Japanese cultures, the beauty of a meditation garden gradually spread to the West. So take some time for yourself today, maybe enjoy a Tile Paint puzzle.
Avast, ye swabs! ‘Tis once again International Talk Like a Pirate Day! This grid hides a cold-hearted blaggard for ye to find.
Oh no! Your precious flock is being hunted by wolves! Place fences (lines) along the lines of the grid to create regions that each contain only sheep, or only wolves.