Featured Puzzle: Minesweeper #2

Using the clues given, mark all cells containing mines. Unlike the computer game, you get to see all the clues when you start.

Featured Puzzle: From 1 to X #1

Fill in the grid with numbers from 1 to X, where X is the size of the region. You can’t repeat digits within a region, or in orthogonally adjacent cells. Numbers outside the grid are the sum of digits in that row or column.

Featured Puzzle: Nondango #1 – Rubber Ducky Hunt

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.

Featured Puzzle: Gemini Sudoku #1

In Gemini Sudoku, you’re given a pair of Sudoku grids. The grid on the right works like a cipher for the grid on the left. Wherever a digit appears in the left grid, it maps to a specific digit in the same position in the right grid. For example 4 in the left grid might map to a 6 in the right grid. This means that for every 4 you discover on the left, you can place a 6 in the same position on the right.

Featured Puzzle: Stitches #2

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.