little puzzler

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Easy Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

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Futoshiki

Fill in the blank squares so that each digit from 1 to 5 occurs exactly once in each row and column.

> and < connections between squares indicate that one number is greater than or less than another. If you use logic you can solve the puzzle without making guesses.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true

or becomes true.

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Super-Tough Jigsaw Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each jigsaw shape contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

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Hard 8x8 Area 51

You are building a labyrinthian fence enclosing Area 51. The fence must separate the aliens, kept inside, from the cacti, which are outside.

The finished fence must make an enclosed circuit without touching or crossing itself.

A cell containing an uncircled digit must be surrounded by that many pieces of fence.

Numbers inside dotted-circles must be inside the fence and show how many cells can be seen up, down, left, and right (plus itself) from that cell before reaching a fence.

On darkened circles the fence must have a 90 degree turn with straight sections before and after. On white circles the fence must continue straight with a turn before and/or after the circle.

Friendship's the wine of life.

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Super-Tough Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

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Inkies

Fill in the squares so that each row and each column contain all of the digits 1 thru 6.

The heavy lines indicate areas (called cages) that contain groups of numbers that can be combined (in any order) to produce the result shown in the cage, with the indicated math operation. For example, 12× means you can multiply the values together to get 12.

Numbers in cages may repeat, as long as they are not in the same row or column.

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying is this God he is worshipping."

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Challenging Killer Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

The dotted lines indicate areas which also contain a non-repeating set of digits. These squares can be added together to produce the sums shown in the clues.

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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Hard 7x7 Slitherlink

In a Slitherlink Puzzle, you connect horizontally or vertically adjacent dots to form a meandering path that forms a single loop, without crossing itself, or branching. The numbers indicate how many lines surround each cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of lines (from 0 to 3).

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."

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Challenging Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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Tough Jigoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

> and < connections between squares indicate that one number is greater than or less than another. If you use logic you can solve the puzzle without making guesses.

Miracles are so called because they excite wonder. In unphilosophical minds,

any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the

familiar excites wonder also.

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Tough Jigoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

> and < connections between squares indicate that one number is greater than or less than another. If you use logic you can solve the puzzle without making guesses.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

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Medium 8x8 Masyu

The finished puzzle will contain a loop made of horizontal/vertical line segments that connects all the white and black circles.

The line going thru a white circle must be straight. However, there must be at least one corner made on the dot immediate preceding or immediately following the white circle (or on both dots).

The line going thru a black circle must turn a corner on the black circle. Both of the lines emanating from this corner need to go straight through the next dot before making any more turns.

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real

poverty.

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Challenging Killer Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

The dotted lines indicate areas which also contain a non-repeating set of digits. These squares can be added together to produce the sums shown in the clues.

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

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Kakuro

Kakuro puzzles are like a cross between a crossword and a Sudoku puzzle. Instead of letters, each block contains the digits 1 through 9.

Clues are shown on the left/right sides of “across” words, and on the top/bottom sides of “down” words. If you add the digits in a word, the sum will be the number shown in the clue.

The same digit will never repeat within a word.

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological

society.

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Easy Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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Penrose Slitherlink

In a Slitherlink Puzzle, you connect the dots to form a meandering path that forms a single loop, without crossing itself, or branching. The numbers indicate how many lines surround each cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of line segments.

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door;

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Challenging Jigsaw Sudoku

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each jigsaw shape contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."