Featured Puzzle: Fold-a-Box #2
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Featured Puzzle: Fold-a-Box #2

Boxing Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, usually the day after Christmas. Originally, it was the day that alms boxes were opened, and the contents distributed among the poor. Today, some of that spirit remains, but it’s also a shopping holiday similar to Black Friday. Naturally, it seemed a good fit for a Fold-a-Box puzzle. Draw walls to create pentominoes to box up the various gifts.

Featured Puzzle: Futoshiki #1 – Secret Santa
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Featured Puzzle: Futoshiki #1 – Secret Santa

You’re the coordinator for this year’s Secret Santa party. Each of your seven guests brought a present for each of the others. You mixed in the gifts from you, and arranged them in a neat grid, with one present for each guest in each row and column. No idea why – you just liked the arrangement. But then the labels fell off of most of them! Fortunately, you were able to remember a bit about how they were arranged. Can you deduce the rest of the labels?