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Skyscrapers (Towers): Three Free Puzzles
- Posted on June 30, 2012
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The upcoming volume My Logic Fix will feature all-new puzzle types not found in My Puzzle Fix: Volume 1. One of these is the non-verbal logic puzzle Skyscrapers, also known as Towers. Click to download and enjoy these three free Skyscrapers puzzles (easy, medium, and hard) on a one-page printable PDF: [...]
Continue reading...How to Solve Skyscrapers (Towers) Puzzles
- Posted on June 29, 2012
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Skyscrapers, or Towers, are a non-verbal “Japanese” logic puzzle that will be featured in the upcoming book My Puzzle Fix, Volume 2: My Logic Fix. Skyscrapers are Latin squares (square blocks of numbered cells with no number repeated in any row or column) with clues along the edge. Each number [...]
Continue reading...My Logic Fix Contents
Now you can take a sneak peak at My Puzzle Fix, Vol. 2: My Logic Fix by viewing the table of contents. This book will be available as soon as the publisher’s review is complete and contains nearly 100 all-new logic puzzles! Included are three shiny new sudoku variants: Dilemma Sudoku, [...]
Continue reading...My Puzzle Fix, Volume 2: My Logic Fix — update
Volume 2, a book of all logic puzzles, is in the later stages of production. My Logic Fix will contain at least seven sudoku variants, including all three types found in Volume 1 and a number of exciting, never-before-seen new variants developed just for this book. You’ll get over 30 [...]
Continue reading...Advanced Sudoku Solving Tips & Techniques
- Posted on June 8, 2012
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Basic sudoku solving techniques such as scanning can only get you so far on medium to hard sudoku puzzles and variants. To solve moderate and difficult puzzles, you will need more advanced solving algorithms and strategies. The techniques given here all rely on the use of pencil marks, which are [...]
Continue reading...Sudoku Solving Techniques: How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles
- Posted on June 5, 2012
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A staple type of puzzle for My Puzzle Fix, both the original book and the free online puzzles, is the sudoku variation. Both sudoku and variants are non-verbal combinatorial logic puzzles (combinatorial just means that each square could contain one of several numbers, rather than being “either/or”). My Puzzle Fix does not [...]
Continue reading...What’s Next from My Puzzle Fix
Coming later this year: My Puzzle Fix, Volume 2: My Logic Fix. This book will have a wide variety of logic puzzles to tickle your itch, including logic (story) problems, mashu, tents (a new puzzle type not found in Volume 1), and myriad sudoku variants, including some all-new ones that [...]
Continue reading...How to Solve Mashu Japanese Logic Puzzles
- Posted on May 1, 2012
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Mashu (sometimes spelled masyu or mashū) are logic puzzles made up of grids in which some of the squares contain either a white circle or a black circle. The object is to draw, without leaving the puzzle border, a single line—a loop that has no ends and does not cross [...]
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