Merry Christmas! On the final day of my Advent Calendar, I have 2 cryptic puzzles for you. One is a crossword and the other… well, you’ll have to figure out how to decode it. Note that the standard and family versions of the crossword have all the same answers, but the family version has non-cryptic…
It’s Christmas Eve, and later today I’ll be leading my church in singing ‘Silent Night’ by candlelight. But in the meantime, we’re going to be doing a ‘Silent Knight’ puzzle–a knight’s move sudoku. Just like a classic sudoku, but with an additional constraint that no digit may appear within a knight’s move of itself. If…
We’re drawing snakes today as Mary and Joseph escape to Egypt. Be careful to keep the travellers safe and avoid the soldiers. If you are subscribed to the standard or family advent calendars, you’ll find links to the pdfs of today’s puzzle below. And for a brief introduction to snake puzzles, check out today’s video:
Another non-sudoku today. This time we’re doing fillomino puzzles. As the name implies, you must ‘fill’ the grid with polyominoes, which is just a fancy word for regions of orthogonally connected cells. If you are subscribed to the standard or family advent calendars, you’ll find links to the pdfs of today’s puzzle below. And for…
Snowmen have invaded our sudokus today. This puzzle is a combination of quadruples, thermos, and Odd/Even/Large/Small sudoku. Words outside the grid indicate the nature of the digits in the first 2 cells in the corresponding row or column. If you are subscribed to the standard or family advent calendars, you’ll find links to the pdfs…
We’re back to killer sudoku again today, but this time all the cage totals are encoded. Using the information provided, you will have to figure out all the cage totals yourself. If you are subscribed to the standard or family advent calendars, you’ll find links to the pdfs of today’s puzzle below. And I’ve included…
We’re building fences today with a ‘castle wall’ puzzle. It’s a bit unusual for castle wall puzzles, due to the placement of the clues, but otherwise it works just like normal castle wall. If you are subscribed to the standard or family advent calendars, you’ll find links to the pdfs of today’s puzzle below. And…
We have some more extra regions today, including a couple of special extra regions: diagonals. In this puzzle, you’ll find three extra regions forming some familiar shapes, along with a diagonal constraint–every digit 1-9 must also appear once on each diagonal. The family version also requires all digits (1-6) along each diagonal, but has no…
I have some killer presents for you today. And by that I mean a killer sudoku with surprises inside the cages (presents). The family version is a normal killer puzzle, but the ‘full strength’ version is a bit more complicated. If you are familiar with ‘lunchbox’, ‘hidden arrow’, and ‘encaged kropki’ puzzles, then you should…
We have something a little different again today. There are very few instructions on this puzzle, but don’t let that deter you. Figuring out what to do is part of the puzzle. And if you really get stuck, there are links to a couple of hints in the pdf. Also, feel free to send me…
