711 activities found
A numeric fill-in puzzle: you're given a bank of numbers and place each one into a blank crossword-style grid based on how many digits it has and which digits must line up where lines cross.
A two-player pencil-and-paper grid game: each player secretly places a fleet of ships on a hidden grid and takes turns calling out coordinates, trying to sink the opponent's ships before their own are found.
Arranging seven flat geometric pieces — triangles, a square, and a parallelogram — to recreate a given silhouette shape, using all seven pieces with no gaps and no overlaps.
Tracing a path with a pencil through a printed maze of walls and passages, from a marked entrance to a marked exit, without crossing any walls or backtracking through dead ends.
A word puzzle where you rearrange all the letters of a jumbled word or phrase to form a different valid word or phrase, using every letter exactly once and no others.
A crossword variant, especially popular in the UK, where each clue is itself a compact wordplay puzzle — an anagram, a hidden word, a double meaning — rather than a plain definition of the answer.
A grid-division puzzle where you split the whole grid into regions (polyominoes) so that every cell's number equals the size of the region it belongs to — and no two same-sized regions touch edge-to-edge.
A logic puzzle where you draw a single unbroken, non-crossing loop connecting dots on a grid, so the number of loop edges surrounding each numbered cell exactly matches that cell's printed number.
A logic puzzle on a numbered grid: shade cells so no number repeats unshaded in any row or column, no two shaded cells touch, and the unshaded cells stay connected.