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 6231 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.
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 |
3d Abctje Akari Anti-Knight Anti-king Antiknight Arithmetics Arrow Arrow Sudoku As easy as Außerirdischer Battlefield Battleships Beginner Big Buchstabenrätsel Chess Close of the mark Coloring Coral Crypto Diagonal Divided Dividing Domino Doppelblock English Fences Filling Fillomino Generated with computer German Hashiwokakero Hexagonal Heyawake Hint Hitori Hochhausblöcke Höhle Inseln Irregular Japanese sums Kakuro Killer Killer Sudoku Killer-Sudoku Killersudoku Knowledge Kombination Kropki LITS Little Killer Little Killer Sudoku Logelei - Logical Magic Square Magic spiral Magnets Masterword Masyu Math Mehrdeutig Meta Minesweeper Mystery Palindrome Parity Party Paths Pentomino Pfeile Placing Portal Special Roller Coaster Sandwich Sandwich Sudoku Secret code Sequence Shakashaka Skyscrapers Slingshot Small Snake Standard puzzle Starbattle Stations Subway Sudoku Tapa Tents Thermo Thermometer Toroidial Variant X-Sudoku XV Yajilin Yin-Yang mit Computerhilfe neuartig toroidal 2358
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Xikaku für Anfänger by hopppe (on 14. May 2010, 11:00) | 618 |  60 % |
| 红葉puzzles（PP31）: Numberlink001 by cdwg2000 (on 2. December 2020, 15:23) | 86 | 69 % |
| Hashiwokakero für Anfänger (1) by berni (on 10. December 2008, 13:38) | 591 | 70 % |
| Rechteckszerlegung by RobertBe (on 1. December 2009, 10:53) | 313 | 67 % |
| 2a. Achtelwenden Daneben 4x4 by adam001 (on 6. October 2012, 08:30) | 187 | 73 % |
The most beautiful puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rundweg Family Photo by pokerke (on 14. February 2011, 00:57) | 57 |  100 % |
| Hallig-Rundreise by tuace (on 13. April 2015, 00:47) | 24 | 100 % |
| Neue Post vom Außerirdischen by ibag (on 6. September 2015, 00:00) | 49 |  100 % |
| Wichtel 2016 (2): Erfahrener Höhlenforscher gesucht by wichtel (on 20. April 2017, 11:02) | 34 |  100 % |
| Adventsportale, Teil 4 by pirx (on 23. December 2018, 12:00) | 31 | 100 % |
The newest puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 真笑Puzzles020--Chaos Construction-- “孔子” 001 by cdwg2000 (today, 11:10) | 0 |  N/A |
| Thermal Overload by GremlinSA (today, 09:00) | 9 | N/A |
| Ghost Python 5 (Clone Snake Sudoku) by peterchayward (today, 07:06) | 1 |  N/A |
| Broken Chesssboard by kevin.r.bland (today, 04:50) | 0 | N/A |
| My 70th Puzzle (Little Killer Kropki) by LucyAudrin (today, 01:04) | 18 |  94 % |
Latest
| New comments | Last solved |
|---|---|
Friendly Sandwiches (today, 10:16 by PrimeWeasel) Killer Magic 5X5 (today, 08:42 by steelwool) No they are NOT magic squares! (today, 07:11 by bigger) Sudoku Variants Series (257) - S, as in Sudoku (today, 07:03 by Mufasa) shorturl.at/mzX24 Sudoku Variants Series (038) - Group Sums (today, 06:48 by Narayana) https://f-puzzles.com/?id=y22ewvqp
Omnidirectional (today, 06:22 by askel083) Magic Thermo Chess (today, 06:21 by beans) Encaged Kropki (today, 06:12 by Narayana) Anti-Knight Anti-King Magic Square (today, 05:05 by Ryx) Broken Chesssboard (today, 04:52 by kevin.r.bland) | today, 11:08 today, 11:06 today, 11:03 today, 11:02 today, 11:01 today, 10:57 today, 10:53 today, 10:50 today, 10:49 today, 10:49 |
18 users were active in the last 15 minutes (number of solved puzzles in the last 24 hours in brackets):
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