Binary Puzzles
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:…
Author: djape
Traveler. Tanguero. Sailor. Puzzle maker. PhD student. Computer Scientist. Author of over 70 puzzle books.
Number Search Puzzle
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…
Futoshiki
The rules of Futoshiki are very simple: 1. The grid is square and can be of any size. Use numbers 1 to the size of the grid to solve the puzzle. 2. Numbers cannot be repeated in a row or…
Super Samurai Sudoku 13 grids
Some people consider Sudoku Samurai puzzles too big; some other people prefer even bigger puzzles. If you belong to the second category, here is an overlapping sudoku variants puzzle for you: 13 grid Sudoku (Gattai-13) laid out in a quadruple…
Killer Sudoku on Saturdays!
I should’ve announced this before, but was too busy making the sudoku variants book. So… As of today, every Saturday on the Killer Sudoku page a Killer Sudoku 10×10 will be posted! Almost 8 years after I started posting daily…
Killer Sudoku 10×10
When was the last time I posted a Killer Sudoku variant puzzle for the first time? I can’t remember. Well, nearly 8 years (I’m a bit slow, you know) after publishing first Killer Sudoku, it occurred to me that there…
Pirates’ Games
This is not a puzzle related post. 🙂 It’s a brain teaser (I used to post brain teasers years ago). I’ve been studying game theory lately and wanted to share one “classic” problem of this discipline with you. See if…
Odd Even Sudoku
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate this day! 🙂 As a small gift for you, I’ve prepared an odd-even sudoku variation puzzle. It’s not the first odd even puzzle I ever posted, but it is the first plain odd even…
Sudoku Variations
I’ve created numerous variations of Sudoku puzzles. Here is a list of some of them. View a more comprehensive list on the Sudoku Variants page. And then you can find even more of them in the Sample Puzzles category. You…
How to solve Diagonal Sudoku X
I realize that I’ve never posted two sudoku solving techniques which are specific to Diagonal Sudoku puzzles. Here they are. Diagonal and nonet interaction This one is a simple extension of the “row/column and nonet interaction technique”. Just look at…