The Puzzle Portal
The puzzle portal is a collection of puzzles created by puzzle enthusiasts from all over the world. At the moment the portal contains 9445 puzzles.
If this is your first visit to the puzzle portal we recommend that you take a tour to get an overview of the portal contents.
We have put together a collection of puzzles suitable for beginners. These contain solution hints - and we hope that these puzzles will help you getting started.
Note: Parts of the Portal are currently under revision. In particular, the management of labels and tags (marks to describe puzzle properties) has changed recently. We are asking you to observe the guidelines on this Help page when creating new puzzles, and to adjust the labels/tags for puzzles which you have created in the past following the same standards.
Another note: The Portal will be moderated in the future, see the following forum thread for more information. Each Moderator can be contacted via his User page, and there is a link in the help pages to send a message to the entire moderator team.
To help you getting started navigating the portal we have put together some puzzle collections.
| Puzzle types | Puzzle collections | Puzzle authors |
|---|---|---|
| Sudoku | Easy and nice | Richard |
| Slither link | Average and nice | Luigi |
| ABC-tje | Difficult and nice | berni |
| Pentomino puzzles | Often solved and nice | |
| Mystery puzzles |
10-in-9 (Variant) 159 (Variant) ABC Box ABCtje Achtelwenden Akari Anglers Anti-Diagonal (Variant) Anti-Knight (Variant) Anti-Queen (Variant) Aquarium Arrows Arrows (Variant) Battlefield (Variant) Battleships Between (Variant) Brick Wall Candles Capsules Castle Wall Cave Chaos Construction (Variant) Clone (Variant) Compass (Variant) Congruence Loop Consecutive (Variant) Consecutive Pairs (Variant) Coral Country Road Diagonal (Variant) Difference (Variant) Disjoint Groups (Variant) Domino Search Dots (Theme) Easy as ABC Even/Odd (Variant) Extra Regions (Variant) Fillomino Fortress (Variant) Galaxies German Whispers (Variant) Greater Than (Variant) Hakyuu Hashiwokakero Heyawake Hitori Irregular (Variant) Japanese Sums Kakuro Killer (Variant) Knight Move (Theme) Kropki Kropki Pairs (Variant) Kuromasu Laser Letter Puzzle LITS Little Killer (Variant) Lockout Lines (Variant) Logical Magic Labyrinth Magic Square Magnets Masterword Masyu Minesweeper Non-Consecutive (Variant) Non-Touching (Variant) Nonogram Norinori Number Link Nurikabe Palindrome (Variant) Parity (Theme) Parity Party (Variant) Pentopia Position Sums (Variant) Primes (Theme) Product (Theme) Pyramid Quadruple (Variant) Railroads Ratio (Variant) Ratio Pairs (Variant) Renban (Variant) Roller Coaster Sandwich (Variant) Shakashaka Shikaku Skyscraper Clusters Skyscrapers Slingshot (Variant) Slitherlink Smashed Sums Snake Snake (Variant) Star Battle Sudoku Tapa Tents Thermo (Variant) Umbrellas Underground Variables Tapasyu Windoku (Variant) X-Sums (Variant) XV (Variant) XV Pairs (Variant) Yajilin Yin and Yang
Enjoy browsing the portal!
If you are interested in the recent growth of new puzzles, see the discussion in our forum (scroll down to see comments in English).
The easiest puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Unique Dominoes (4x4) by hexadoodle (on 17. May 2021, 04:20) | 278 |  70 % |
| Batterie (CHalbvoll) by niruaL (on 27. July 2021, 05:55) | 73 | 64 % |
| Xikaku für Anfänger by hopppe (on 14. May 2010, 11:00) | 738 | 59 % |
| 1-Stern-Star-Battle by CJK (on 28. June 2021, 19:33) | 207 | 67 % |
| Luck-Based Sudoku? by Geoteve (on 29. May 2021, 09:55) | 169 | 76 % |
The most beautiful puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rundweg Family Photo by pokerke (on 14. February 2011, 00:57) | 64 |  100 % |
| Hallig-Rundreise by tuace (on 13. April 2015, 00:47) | 26 | 100 % |
| Neue Post vom Außerirdischen by ibag (on 6. September 2015, 00:00) | 55 |  100 % |
| Wichtel 2016 (2): Erfahrener Höhlenforscher gesucht by wichtel (on 20. April 2017, 11:02) | 36 |  100 % |
| Adventsportale, Teil 4 by pirx (on 23. December 2018, 12:00) | 36 | 100 % |
The newest puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Irregular thermometer sudoku puzzle pack by Aspartagcus (today, 21:49) | 0 |  N/A |
| Cake or death? by vidarino (today, 18:46) | 8 |  N/A |
| Quorum Rings by Jay Dyer (today, 17:04) | 3 |  N/A |
| GAS Guzzler (Sudoku) by PDN777 (today, 15:55) | 32 | 79 % |
| Non-consecutive Killer by Florian Wortmann (today, 13:57) | 16 | 92 % |
Latest
| New comments | Last solved |
|---|---|
24 Rätsel in 24 Stunden (Teil 3) - Höhle (today, 21:57 by PixelPlucker) GAS Guzzler (Sudoku) (today, 21:45 by ctshirk7) Wichtel 2020 (11): Equality-Doppelstern-Bausatz (today, 19:19 by Joe Average) Cute Mischief - A 6x6 Irregular Sudoku Pack (today, 17:08 by SudokuExplorer) Consecutive Sums Sudoku (today, 16:31 by SudokuExplorer) @abed hawila: Cheers... Whispering Knight (today, 15:49 by alpha_bet) Non-consecutive Killer (today, 15:33 by dlindberg3) Cute Mischief - A 6x6 Irregular Sudoku Pack (today, 14:44 by DVFrank) Sudoku Variants Series (249) - Superconsecutive Sudoku (today, 14:06 by Nick Smirnov) CTC... The Graveyard Of Ideas (today, 13:17 by juhish) | today, 22:33 today, 22:32 today, 22:29 today, 22:28 today, 22:27 today, 22:24 today, 22:18 today, 22:18 today, 22:10 today, 22:03 |
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