Featured Puzzle – Hashi #4

Connect all of the numbered islands into a single group, using a series of bridges. No more than two bridges may connect any pair of islands.

Featured Puzzle – Tetroid #1

Spring is coming, a time of renewal. So why not introduce a new puzzle? Today, we have Tetroid, a grid division puzzle. It’s a little like L.I.T.S., except that there are no predefined regions, and you’re using all 5 tetromino shapes.

Featured Puzzle: Aquariums #1 – Aegir Sea Festival

In Norse mythology, Aegir was a Frost Giant that was also god of the sea. He was also the brewer for the Asgardian pantheon. One of his better-known feats is that when emptied, his mugs would magically refill with more ale.

To celebrate this ancient sea god, I wanted to showcase a Aquariums puzzle. The key to figuring these out is to think about how water flows. Shade cells in some regions to represent water inside them.

Featured Puzzle: Heyawake #4

Shade cells in each region equal to the number given. If a region has no number, it may have any number of shaded cells, including zero. The remaining unshaded cells must form a single orthogonally contiguous area.

Featured Puzzle: Comparison Sudoku #2

Happy Baba Marta Day! This is a Bulgarian holiday to celebrate Grandmother Martha, the bringer of spring. Observers exchange and wear red and white tassels, called Martenitsas to guard against evil. Once the wearer has seen a stork or blossoming tree, they remove the Martenitsa and hang it from the tree.

Today’s puzzle, colored to resemble a Martenitsa, is Comparison Sudoku.