Featured Puzzle: Grid Ten #1 – National Bean Counter Day

Supposedly, the day after Tax Day in the US is a day of recognition and rest to all the accountants, nicknamed bean counters. Of course, the work is never over, so here’s one more math puzzle for you – Grid Ten.

Featured Puzzle: Herugolf #1 – Happy Golfer’s Day!

Happy Golfer’s Day! While there are a few different holidays celebrating the game scattered throughout the year, today honors the players of the game. To celebrate, let’s play a round with a Japanese puzzle called Herugolf! Hit the balls around the grid until each of them lands in a hole – but which one?

Featured Puzzle: Moon or Sun #1 – Path of the Eclipse

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.

Featured Puzzle: Rabbits & Trees #1 – Find the Easter Bunny

Happy Easter! Today we have a special treat. Rather than a traditional Easter egg hunt, we’re going to be playing hide and seek with the Easter Bunny and his friends!

Featured Puzzle: Pencils #1 – National Pencil Day

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 Sure, it was later rescinded because it wasn’t a new device, but just a composite of two existing products, but we still celebrate the day as National Pencil Day.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.