A new kind of puzzle called hexafex was mentioned at puzzlinks. After a few busy weeks today I found some time to check out Hexafex.

After solving a few Hexafex I can say I like them but not as much as Sudoku. The puzzle area where you are working on is smaller than at Sudoku and you just have to count till six.

The objective of Hexafex is to place numbers one to six in 6 triangles around each circle in the Hexafex puzzle. I recommend you just visit their website to try [Read More...]

In a previous post I already mentioned Puzzle Japan where I found my favorite Slither Link Puzzle books.

At Puzzle Japan they have much more number puzzles and if may say so the are all Sudoku look-a-likes. One of my favorite puzzle right now is Hitori. The rules are simple: 1. Numbers never appear more than once in each row or column. 2. Painted cells are never adjacent in a row or a column. 3. Empty cells create a single continuous area, undivided by painted cells.

And the best thing is you can also solve Hitori puzzles [Read More...]

Just for fun and for all Sudoku lovers you can find a video at YouTube.com about Sudoku.

If you are still looking how to solve all Sudoku’s visit Passion for Puzzles Sudoku Solutions page.

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The answer to the Question “How to solve the world largest puzzle” is given on Jibbl.org.

The world’s largest Sudoku puzzle was constructed on a hillside near Chipping Sodbury in the UK, very close to the Bath exit of the M4 motorway. The Sudoku is visible to motorists traveling Eastbound towards London.

The size of the puzzle measures almost 85 meter square. The solutions to this Sudoku and a larger picture of the Sudoku can be found at Jibbl.org.

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Next to the regular Sudoku and the Samurai Sudoku, which has 5 Sudoku joined in a quincunx arrangement, there are much more Sudoku variants available on the web.

Although Sudoku’s are never boring, sometimes it is nice to solve different Sudoku variants.

The first website I found showing you Sudoku variants is called Age of Puzzles which shows you five variants of Sudoku.

Math Games shows you a dozen of Sudoku variants. Just find the Sudoku variant you like and start creating the Sudoku variants puzzles you love most. Happy Puzzling!

Jaap Scherphuis has a huge collection of puzzle collection and solution on Jaap’s Puzzle Page.

For the real Sudoku lovers he wrote an application to generate random Sudoku Puzzles, with all kind of options like difficulty, explanation of the solution, solution Code etc..

For those who want to create their on Sudoku’s at any level this is the Sudoku tool for you. Happy Puzzling!

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After Sudoku now Kakuro wins popularity. Kakuro puzzles exist already for a long time. I found them in a Dutch magazine and in some puzzle books with different kind of puzzles. The difference between Sudoku and Kakuro is that for Kakuro you need to do some math. Sudoku with numbers is the most easy way to solve Sudoku’s, with images or letters Sudoku becomes more difficult to solve for the human brain. The quickest way to solve Kakuro is

1. Use the basic Kakuro rules to assign possibilities to each square. You need a list of the combinations that make up [Read More...]