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 6598 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 Battleships Beginner Big Buchstabenrätsel Chess Close of the mark Coloring Coral Crypto Diagonal Disjoint Groups Divided Dividing Domino Doppelblock English Fences Filling Fillomino Generated with computer German Hashiwokakero Hexagonal Heyawake Hint Hitori Hochhausblöcke Höhle Inseln Irregular Japanese sums Jigsaw Kakuro Killer Killer Sudoku Killer-Sudoku Killersudoku Knowledge Kombination Kropki Kropki Sudoku Little Killer Little Killer Sudoku Magic Square Magic spiral Magnets Masterword Masyu Math Mehrdeutig Meta Minesweeper Mystery Nonconsecutive Palindrome Parity Parity Party Paths Pentomino Pfeile Placing Roller Coaster Sandwich Sandwich Sudoku Secret code Sequence Skyscrapers Small Snake Standard puzzle Starbattle Stations Subway Sudoku Tapa Tents Thermo Thermo Sudoku Thermometer Toroidial Variant XV XV sudoku 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 红葉puzzles（PP74）: Hashiwokakero001 by cdwg2000 (on 24. February 2021, 09:11) | 58 |  72 % |
 | Xikaku für Anfänger by hopppe (on 14. May 2010, 11:00) | 642 | 60 % |
| Hashiwokakero für Anfänger (1) by berni (on 10. December 2008, 13:38) | 603 | 70 % |
| Rechteckszerlegung by RobertBe (on 1. December 2009, 10:53) | 319 | 67 % |
| 2a. Achtelwenden Daneben 4x4 by adam001 (on 6. October 2012, 08:30) | 189 | 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) | 32 | 100 % |
The newest puzzles
| Description | solved | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Power of Sudoku by 28degrees (today, 19:08) | 1 |  N/A |
| The Old Windmill Sudoku by steelwool (today, 17:09) | 2 |  N/A |
| Little Killer Arrow Sudoku by Phistomefel (today, 11:50) | 5 |  N/A |
| Anti-Knight Killer Sudoku #2 by udukos (today, 10:19) | 11 | N/A |
| 红葉puzzles（PP76）: Slitherlink012 by cdwg2000 (today, 08:02) | 16 | 86 % |
Latest
| New comments | Last solved |
|---|---|
Sudoku Variants Series (309) - Sudoku Kropki Pointers (today, 21:13 by Richard) Sudoku Variants Series (278) - Position Sums Sudoku (today, 21:11 by Richard) Kropki with wormholes (today, 20:49 by PrimeWeasel) Sudoku Variants Series (303) - Assorted Sandwiches Sudoku (today, 20:30 by Rollo) Tag 24 - Finale (today, 20:24 by jessica6) Miracle Killer Sudoku (today, 20:06 by wilsig) Consecutive Magic (today, 19:57 by filuta) Magnetschlange 2 (Leftover der LM-Quali 2021) (today, 19:43 by Statistica) Sandwich Sudoku around the corner (today, 18:43 by glum_hippo) Magnetschlange 2 (Leftover der LM-Quali 2021) (today, 18:35 by Jesper) | today, 21:13 today, 21:11 today, 21:10 today, 21:07 today, 21:07 today, 21:04 today, 21:04 today, 21:04 today, 21:03 today, 20:59 |
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