Featured Puzzle: Snake #3
When they’re not in your boot, snakes are often found sunning themselves in some peaceful place. In this grid, you can see the head and the tip of the snake’s tail. Can you safely uncover the rest of its body?
When they’re not in your boot, snakes are often found sunning themselves in some peaceful place. In this grid, you can see the head and the tip of the snake’s tail. Can you safely uncover the rest of its body?
Haunt Hunters are at another job site, testing for poltergeists. This grid shows all the readings of potential specters. See if you can mark which spots are definitely haunted.
Ready for some square dancing? SquarO is a Minesweeper-like puzzle. It reminds me a bit of standardized testing, because you’re shading in little circles. Basically, each number represents how many of the four circles on the corners of each cell should be filled in. Good luck!
It’s Groundhog Day! They’re hiding in the corners of this grid. Using SquarO rules, find the rodent prognosticators who’ll stay out in the sun with us instead of hiding from their shadows.
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.