Grid Puzzles Blog — Page 4
Strategies, how-to guides, and tips to master every puzzle
How to Play Pips: Place Every Domino by the Rules
Learn Pips with an eight-domino example: cover every cell, check region sums and matching rules, and place tiles across region borders.
How to Play Patches: Cut the Grid Into Rectangles
Patches gives you a grid of numbers and asks you to split it into rectangles, one number per rectangle. Learn the three rules, the rectangle-filling strategy, and where beginners get stuck.
Zip Tips: Walls, Dead Ends and the Right Path
See how Zip paths strand cells, cross walls or reach a dead end, with worked practice diagrams and a corridor that must lead to the finish.
How to Play Zip: Draw One Line Through Every Cell
Zip asks you to draw a single, non-crossing path that visits every square exactly once. Learn the three rules, the corner-first strategy, and the traps that make you restart.
Tango Solving Techniques: Read the = and × Signs First
The = and × constraint signs tell you which adjacent squares match and which don't. Reading them first, before counting rows, is how you solve Tango without guessing.
How to Play Tango: Rules, Walkthrough & Common Mistakes
Learn Tango in one sitting: the three sun-and-moon rules, the tap controls, a real-board walkthrough, and the mistakes that make beginners guess.
The Grid Puzzles Guide: How Each of the 7 Games Works
Sudoku, Patches, Wend, Pips, Zip, Tango and Mini Sudoku — one-sentence rules for each, the skill curve, and which games share a solving loop.