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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: 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

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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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. And to spice things up a little bit, this is a very difficult odd/even […]
Loco Sudoku Puzzle Book Cuckoo Wacky Quirky

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Why do I make puzzles? A brief history of Djape.net

A short answer to that question would be: because I enjoy doing it! … but here is a long version, too. Back in the summer of 2005 I realized that it’s about time I had my own website. At that point I had been computer programming for years and it kinda made sense that I […]
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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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Are you ready to reveal the new Apple iPhoneâ„¢ 5 puzzle?

🙂 Well, this is a puzzle website but I couldn’t resist, I had to join all this hype about leaks of the still unreleased Appleâ„¢’s iPhoneâ„¢ 5. So, this is a Picross (aka Hanjie, Griddlers, Nonograms, pic-a-pix) picture puzzle. Are you going to reveal the new iPhone when you solve it? Well… not really… but […]
Big Picross Hanjie Griddlers Nonograms Oekaki Japanese Picture puzzles book

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Introducing Slitherlink (loop the loop, takegaki, fences, dotty dilemma… you name it)

Another kind of puzzles that I’ve started creating recently… Slitherlink! These puzzles are also known under many different names. Slitherlink puzzles are not a Sudoku variant. They can be of any size and the rules are: 1. Connect the dots to form a single loop with no points of intersection. 2. The clues given tell […]
Diagonal Sudoku X

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Jigsaw+Classic Sudoku combination

Today’s puzzle on the Daily Sudoku variants page is somewhat ambiguous. This is why I’m duplicating it here on the main page. Basically, it’s a Classic and Jigsaw Sudoku combination. In addition to 9 Jigsaw nonets, there are 9 classic Sudoku nonets too. You have to use them both in order to solve the puzzle. […]
Jigsaw Sudoku Puzzle Book

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How to solve Hitori: basic techniques

Solving Hitori puzzles is about recognizing patterns. I will show you some examples of those patterns. They can be split into two groups, one of those that depend solely on the initial positioning of numbers, and another group of patterns that depend on the black and white cells which have been painted in the solving […]
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