After a late night working in the lab, you looked out from the balcony and found an eerie sight! Three local monsters have begun arranging themselves into groups. The rules seem pretty simple, but where will the rest go?
You’re a shelf-stocker at T is for Toys. Tonight you’re stocking teddy bears, tops, and toy trucks. You have no idea what the owner’s obsession is with the letter, but you pity any fool who doesn’t follow his peculiar instructions.
It’s time for more Christmas cookies! Of course, your baking sheets are all oddly-shaped, and can only hold three cookies each. Because, you know – puzzle.
In a grid divided into groups of three cells, we find three different shapes. Quite simply, fill in the rest of the shapes to complete the grid.
After a late night working in the lab, you looked out from the balcony and found an eerie sight! Three types of local monsters have begun arranging themselves into groups. The rules seem pretty simple, but where will the rest go?
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 Sure, it was later rescinded because it wasn’t a new device, but just a composite of two existing products, but we still celebrate the day as National Pencil Day.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.
Cold weather is here, and its time to dig out the quilts and blankets. But you might have an extra houseguest, so it’s time to sew a new one!
Add buttons and stitches so that each region is connected to every neighboring region by one stitch each.
