Category Archives: Puzzle variants

Puzzle variants such as Nurikabe, Hitori, Slitherlink, Hidoku, CalcuDoku

Word Search

By djape | Published: March 22, 2014
Number puzzles (sudoku, kakuro, calcudoku and others) and logic puzzles (picross, for example) is what I’ve been focusing on since 2005. I’ve never created any puzzles with words. Well, that’s about to change! I’m ready to present you with my first ever Word Search puzzle (aka Word Find, Word Sleuth, Word Seek or Mystery Word)! […]
Zigzag Word Searches Puzzle Book for Seniors

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Poker Straights

By djape | Published: January 31, 2014
Here is a new kind of puzzle, for this site for sure and at least I haven’t seen them elsewhere! Remember the Straights puzzle? Well, this is kind of like it… but it’s called POKER Straights. The reason being that there are all 13 “cards” in play… from 2 to 10 and then Jack, Queen, […]
Sudoku Straights, where Poker meets Sudoku

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Hidoku book

By djape | Published: October 17, 2013
Volume 4 of the Hidoku book series. 200 puzzles in which you must find a connected path from 1 to whatever the largest number in the puzzle is. These puzzles can get very difficult, so be warned! Oh, and the consecutive numbers must be adjacent, either horizontally or vertically or diagonally. Enjoy! Tweet
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Binary Takuzu puzzle book

By djape | Published: October 10, 2013
What did you think of the Takuzu puzzle I posted a couple of days ago? Takuzu? Yes! Or the Binary Puzzles… or “The New Sudoku”… or… well, the name doesn’t matter. If you like them, you will be glad that there is a book full of them, just published! Two hundred of these puzzles with […]
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Futoshiki book

By djape | Published: October 10, 2013
It’s busy times folks! Lots of books are coming and I just can’t find the time to inform you about them all. This one was published a couple of weeks ago… It’s a Futoshiki puzzle book. Follow that link to find more about Futoshiki (inequality puzzle) and to see a sample Futoshiki puzzle. So… in […]
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Binary Puzzles

By djape | Published: October 1, 2013
Here is another novelty: Binary Puzzles, also known as TAKUZU. Binary Puzzles are played on square grids of any even size: 6×6, 8×8, 10×10 etc. Your goal is to fill the grids with 0s and 1s, following these simple rules: 1. There can be at most two 0s or at most two 1s next to […]
Takuzu: Binary Puzzles book

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Number Search Puzzle

By djape | Published: September 19, 2013
Here is a nice and simple puzzle for you: NUMBER SEARCH. It’s like word search puzzle but with numbers. Search for the numbers listed below the grid and find them in the grid. Search for them in any of the 8 directions (horizontal, vertical, left diagonal, right diagonal and each of them in forward and […]
Number Searches Very Large Print Book

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