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Guess the secret 5-letter word in 6 tries.
10 levels of color discrimination. Six squares, one is slightly different. Click the odd one out.
Six letters appear one by one, then disappear. Figure out a word that uses them all.
A weirdly-shaped blob (with a hole inside it) needs to be cut. You draw a single straight cut from outside the shape to outside, aiming for a target ratio.
Trace the target shape. Hold down and draw a closed path around the center.
6×6 Sudoku with 2×3 subgrids. Fill in digits 1–6 so every row, column, and subgrid contains each digit once.
Classic Minesweeper. 12×12 grid, 20 mines. The puzzles are designed so no guessing is needed (every move can be deduced).
Place 6 queens on a 6×6 colored grid so that no two are in the same row, column, color region, or diagonally adjacent.
A small crossword puzzle (between 4×4 and 6×6 in size).
Sixteen words. Four hidden categories of four words each; yellow (easiest) through purple (trickiest). Find them all.
A picture puzzle. Clues tell you how many consecutive filled cells are in each row and column. Reveal the picture.