swap_horiz Nerdle Alternatives

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Pressman Mastermind

A hidden pattern of colored pegs provides the central challenge in Pressman's editions of Mastermind. One player sets th...

Classic Board Game Deduction Code Breaking

9.22 Excellent

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Nurikabe

Nurikabe asks solvers to divide a grid into numbered islands and a connected shaded sea. Originating in Japan, it has be...

Grid Deduction Island Shading

8.88 Great

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Tsumego

Tsumego (詰碁) are Go life-and-death puzzles requiring the player to find the sequence that captures or secures a group...

Tactical Classic Japanese Deduction

8.86 Great

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Zebra Puzzle

The Zebra Puzzle (often attributed to Albert Einstein, though without firm evidence) is a classic five-house logic grid...

Classic Grid Deduction Einstein

8.78 Great

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Killer Sudoku

Killer Sudoku combines the familiar Sudoku grid with sum clues resembling the arithmetic element of Kakuro. In the usual...

Grid Deduction Number Arithmetic

8.72 Great

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Fillomino

Published by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli, Fillomino requires a grid to be divided into connected numbered regions...

Grid Deduction Number Region

8.69 Great

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Star Battle

Star Battle is a logic puzzle played on a grid that is divided into outlined, irregularly shaped regions. Solvers must p...

Grid Star Deduction Region

8.62 Great

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Thermo-Sudoku

Thermo-Sudoku is a variant of the traditional Sudoku puzzle that incorporates a constraint based on thermometer-shaped l...

Grid Deduction Number Sudoku Variant

8.55 Great

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Knights and Knaves

Knights and Knaves is a class of logic puzzles set on a fictional island where knights always tell the truth and knaves...

Classic Logic Deduction Truth Teller

8.52 Great

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Hashiwokakero

Hashiwokakero, meaning 'build bridges' in Japanese, is a grid-based logic puzzle published by the Japanese puzzle compan...

Bridge Grid Deduction Connection

8.46 Great

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KenKen

KenKen is an arithmetic logic puzzle invented in 2004 by Japanese educator Tetsuya Miyamoto, who developed it as a teach...

Educational Grid Number Arithmetic

8.44 Great

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German Whispers Sudoku

German Whispers Sudoku is a variant of Sudoku in which a supplementary constraint applies to marked lines within the gri...

Grid Deduction Number Line

8.41 Great

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Heyawake

Heyawake is a grid-based logic puzzle published by Nikoli, played on a rectangular grid subdivided into rectangular room...

Grid Deduction Region Shading

8.37 Great

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Arrow Sudoku

Arrow Sudoku is a logic puzzle variant that overlays standard Sudoku rules with arithmetic constraints. The grid feature...

Grid Deduction Number Arrow

8.36 Great

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Loopy

Loopy is a loop-drawing logic puzzle, included in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, where players draw a single...

Grid Deduction Loop Tatham

8.35 Great

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Yajilin

Yajilin is a logic puzzle published by Nikoli where solvers draw a single continuous, closed loop through a grid. Number...

Grid Deduction Loop Arrow

8.31 Great

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Cryptarithmetic

Cryptarithmetic (or cryptarithmetic) is a mathematical puzzle form, first popularized by Henry Dudeney in 1914 with SEND...

Classic Deduction Algebra Word

8.24 Great

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SEND+MORE=MONEY

SEND + MORE = MONEY is a classic cryptarithmetic mathematical puzzle created by Henry Dudeney, first published in the Ju...

Classic Deduction Arithmetic Famous

8.07 Great

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Calcudoku

Calcudoku is a grid-based arithmetic puzzle that follows a format similar to KenKen. Solvers fill a square grid with dig...

Grid Deduction Number Arithmetic

8.03 Great

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Doppelblock

Doppelblock is a Japanese logic puzzle where solvers shade two cells in each row and column of a grid. The unshaded cell...

Grid Deduction Number Arithmetic

6.94 Fair