Meanwhile, here’s a new puzzle from Japan, where the world’s best pencil-and-paper logic puzzles come from. In Snake Place the challenge is to draw ‘snakes’ on the grid. In Snake Place, hopefully the pain will turn to pleasure, once you begin to appreciate the care and cleverness with which Inaba has placed the clues. (If you like his style, there are 46 other hand-crafted Naoki Inaba puzzles in Puzzle Ninja). I’ll be back at 5pm UK time with the solutions to Snake Place, and the results of the Nikoli Derby.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 06:08 UTC