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2. Numberlink - Wikipedia

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   History. In 1897, a slightly different form of the puzzle was printed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, in a column by Sam Loyd. [2] Another early, printed version of Number Link can be found in Henry Ernest Dudeney 's book Amusements in mathematics (1917) as a puzzle for motorists (puzzle no. 252). [3] This puzzle type was popularized in Japan by ...

3. Word search - Wikipedia

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   Word search. A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or ...

4. Nonogram - Wikipedia

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   A completed nonogram of the letter "W" from the Wikipedia logo. Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Paint by Numbers, Picross, Griddlers, and Pic-a-Pix are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle, the numbers are a form of ...

5. KenKen - Wikipedia

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   A simple KenKen puzzle, with answers filled in as large numbers. KenKen and KenDoku are trademarked names for a style of arithmetic and logic puzzle invented in 2004 by Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto, [1] who intended the puzzles to be an instruction-free method of training the brain. [2] The name derives from the Japanese word for ...

6. Cross-figure - Wikipedia

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   Cross-figure. A cross-figure (also variously called cross number puzzle or figure logic) is a puzzle similar to a crossword in structure, but with entries that consist of numbers rather than words, where individual digits are entered in the blank cells. Clues may be mathematical ("the seventh prime number"), use general knowledge ("date of the ...

7. Puzzle - Wikipedia

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   A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together ( or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to achieve the correct solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles ...