Featured Puzzle: Arukone (Number Pairs) #3
Oh, the weather outside is frightful… Connect each pair of identical snowflakes with orthogonal paths.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful… Connect each pair of identical snowflakes with orthogonal paths.
A traditional gift for Valentine’s Day is a bouquet of flowers, usually roses. Rather than gathering a bunch of identical flowers, I thought it would be more interesting to match up pairs of flowers. Connect each pair of identical flowers with orthogonal paths.
Bats fly, and zombies belong underground – everyone knows that. But can you use this knowledge to place one of each in all the regions?
Oh no! There’s a terrible blizzard, and only one reindeer can guide the way! You must place reindeer and snow in each region of the grid to guide Santa. As we all know, reindeer fly, and snow falls, which is key to solving this puzzle.
Fillomino is another popular Japanese puzzle. Divide the grid into polyomino regions that each contain a single number, ranging from 1-9.
Fillomino is a popular Japanese puzzle. Divide the grid into polyomino regions that each contain a single number, ranging from 1-9.
One common Christmas decoration, especially in the southern United States, is the poinsettia flower. In honor of that, today’s puzzle is Flower Sudoku. This is five overlapping Sudoku grids, in which the central grid is completely covered by the four outer grids.
Sure, most people are celebrating Earth Day today, but a fun lesser-known holiday is National Jelly Bean Day! (By the way, google “national jelly bean day” – I was pleasantly surprised when I did.) I couldn’t find any details on the origin, though. My guess is that It started as an internet meme excuse to gorge on leftover Easter candy.
Anyway, today’s puzzle is Fobidoshi, using jelly beans on a grid, of course! I’ve started you with a few.
When I was a kid, origami was a hobby I delved into with a passion. All these years later, and I just discovered that November 11th is World Origami Day! Today’s puzzle, originally named Yokibunkastu (“container dividing”), is themed around folding, so I thought it would be appropriate for the occasion. Draw walls to form pentomino (5-cell) regions around the paper cranes.
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.