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Tag Archives: BRAIN

Non Consecutive and Consecutive Sudoku

Here is another multi sudoku puzzle, although this one consists of just two overlapping sub puzzles with very similar rules. Top puzzle is non consecutive sudoku. Again, as many times before, I warn you: it looks like just vanilla sudoku, but you must follow an additional rule: two consecutive numbers cannot be placed orthogonally next […]
Consecutive Sudoku Compendium

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Poker Straights

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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Jigsaw Tridoku

I’ve previously posted one Jigsaw Tridoku puzzle and it was labeled THINKER. This one is a bit more difficult (or so I think?) and it’s labeled BRAIN. So… if you are unfamiliar with this concept, make sure to have a look at my introductory article on Triangular Sudoku. The rules and solving methods are there, […]
Tridoku book Large print

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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 column. All numbers must appear in each row and in each column. 3. The “more […]
Futoshiki plus gifts

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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 you can solve it by yourself. Post your solution as comments below this post. So… […]
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Diagonal Sudoku

Can you imagine that I never posted a plain Diagonal Sudoku X puzzle here on the main page? I’ve posted a few Diagonal Samurai Sudoku puzzles and of course I often post Sudoku X puzzles on the Sudoku Variants page. Well, that’s about to change. 🙂 Here is a Sodoku X puzzle which is not […]
Diagonal Sudoku book

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Non Consecutive Sudoku

As you may have noticed, I’ve been trying to make the navigation on the website a bit easier. In the right hand “sidebar” you can now find quick links to most popular kinds of puzzles. The “Sample Puzzles” category contains hundreds of puzzles which I’ve been posting since 2005. A nice feature is that when […]
Non Consecutive Sudoku Compendium

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Outside Sudoku and its variants: You Really Should Try this Type of Sudoku

After two new book reviews from Amazon that I posted, here I’m posting all reviews of one of the books that should catch your attention: Outside Sudoku and its variants. This book is special because it contains a variety of a variety. 🙂 Outside Sudoku puzzles have essentially the same rules as classic Sudoku, but […]
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Samurai Sudoku: Brilliant training for the brain and good for relaxation (new review on Amazon)

Here is a new review of The Way of Samurai: 101 puzzles on Amazon.com. It’s a 5/5 stars. 🙂 Concerning the training of the brain it was 4 years ago stated in the Danish engineering news that research had found that Sudoku is the best training for the brain. Later there has come another “game” […]
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Saturday Special: Anti-King Killer Sudoku

Here’s another Anti-Chess sample puzzle: this one’s a bit harder than the last one. This one’s a HARD (4/5…BRAIN/IQ) Anti-King Killer (this puzzle was originally classified insane, but is actually easier than the insane puzzles in the book) Anti-King means that no two cells one king’s move move away from each other in chess can […]
Fiendish Killer Sudoku Book

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