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 8435 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.
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) ABC Box ABCtje Achtelwenden Akari Anglers 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) Consecutive (Variant) Coral Country Road Diagonal (Variant) Difference (Variant) Disjoint Groups (Variant) Domino Search Dots (Theme) Easy as ABC Even/Odd (Variant) Fillomino Galaxies German Whispers (Variant) Hakyuu Hashiwokakero Heyawake Hitori Irregular (Variant) Japanese Sums Kakuro Killer (Variant) Knight Move (Theme) Kropki Kuromasu Laser Letter Puzzle LITS Little Killer (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 Renban (Variant) Roller Coaster Sandwich (Variant) Shakashaka Shikaku Skyscraper Clusters Skyscrapers Slingshot (Variant) Slitherlink Smashed Sums Snake Star Battle Sudoku Tapa Tents Thermo (Variant) Umbrellas Underground Variables Tapasyu Windoku (Variant) X-Sums (Variant) XV (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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Luck-Based Sudoku? by Geoteve (on 29. May 2021, 09:55) | 130 |  74 % |
| Unique Dominoes (4x4) by hexadoodle (on 17. May 2021, 04:20) | 203 | 68 % |
| 1-Stern-Star-Battle by CJK (on 28. June 2021, 19:33) | 130 | 67 % |
| Xikaku für Anfänger by hopppe (on 14. May 2010, 11:00) | 715 | 59 % |
| Batterie (CHalbvoll) by niruaL (on 27. July 2021, 05:55) | 41 | 71 % |
The most beautiful puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rundweg Family Photo by pokerke (on 14. February 2011, 00:57) | 62 |  100 % |
| Hallig-Rundreise by tuace (on 13. April 2015, 00:47) | 25 | 100 % |
| Neue Post vom Außerirdischen by ibag (on 6. September 2015, 00:00) | 53 |  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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Caged Mozart by Chilly (today, 01:13) | 0 |  N/A |
| Intersections Sudoku #2 (6x6) by RockyRoer (today, 00:21) | 1 |  N/A |
| Sudoku Variants Series (332) - Teleportation Cycle Sums Sudoku by Richard (today, 00:00) | 2 |  N/A |
| Potpourri by zetamath (yesterday, 20:31) | 7 | N/A |
| Pinwheel by pleasant_setting (yesterday, 20:31) | 0 | N/A |
Latest
| New comments | Last solved |
|---|---|
Sudoku Variants Series (332) - Teleportation Cycle Sums Sudoku (today, 00:26 by henrypijames) Killer Sudoku X (today, 00:22 by kerirofl) --Thank you! Renban Sandwich Sudoku (yesterday, 23:47 by zhergan) Primes (yesterday, 22:44 by Vebby) Did someone say Mondrian? (yesterday, 22:32 by Chilly) Irregular Primes (yesterday, 22:32 by 10feet) Potpourri (yesterday, 22:10 by ___) Uncertain Sudoku #10 - Search Nine or Point to Next (yesterday, 21:49 by Vebby) Killer Sudoku X (yesterday, 20:59 by DiMono) --Thank you! :) Killer Sudoku X (yesterday, 20:53 by Lakritze) --Thank you so much! | today, 01:52 today, 01:52 today, 01:51 today, 01:42 today, 01:37 today, 01:36 today, 01:33 today, 01:30 today, 01:29 today, 01:22 |
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