One of the most iconic romantic moments in fiction is the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. When I saw the layout of this 2-grid Sudoku puzzle, I knew I had to use that as the background image. There are more ways to overlap a pair of Sudoku grids, but this one just feels right. Enjoy the solve!
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.
Do you love Gokigen puzzles? I love Gokigen puzzles! Um…love, cause it’s February, right? Yeah, that’s a stretch. Place slanted lines in every cell of the grid, using the clues to help you figure out the direction of each one.
Can you gather all the hearts from this grid? Choose any heart to start, and number them in the order you pick them up.
The thing about secret admirers is that they could be anyone. That seems as good a theme as any for a Hitori puzzle. See if you can find the duplicates in each row and column, and mark them as your suitors.
Love and dating is all about making human connection. In that spirit, today we’ll play a variant of Ichimaga, a puzzle all about connections.
Today, we have a “couples” variant of L.I.T.S. Normally, you need to shade 4 cells in each region to place a single tetromino. In Double L.I.T.S., you must shade a total of 8 cells, to place two tetrominoes in each region.
Ah, the time-honored practice of writing a heartfelt letter to the person you admire. Perhaps you send it in secret, or maybe you already confessed your love, and you’re simply reaffirming it.
Today’s puzzle is a simple maze, with a quote spelled out along the solution path.
Ah, Valentine’s Day, when love is in the air, and the pressure to impress your date is at its highest. Naturally, that’s the day these eight shy teenagers chose to test their compatibility. For their first date, the four couples had different meals, and a different choice of activity. Which lucky lovers were paired up, and what did they do?
Valentine’s Day is steeped in tradition. Roses and a box of chocolates are probably the most iconic gifts for your romantic partner. You know what else is steeped? Tea! So let’s theme a Milk Tea puzzle for Valentine’s Day. But, there’s a twist! Teasing is also a time-honored tradition in the game of love. So I present to you the Milk Tease variant.
