Inkwell Games makes daily logic puzzles that start gentle on Monday and turn tough by Sunday. Here's how each one works, and where to get help when you're stuck.
Place stars in a grid without letting them touch.
Stars is the puzzle most of the world calls Star Battle. Every row, column and outlined region holds two stars, and no two stars touch, even at a corner.
Color a grid so that each field matches its number.
Every cell is green or blue. Each field holds one number, which is its size, and fields of the same color can't share an edge.
Draw one continuous loop around the grid.
The river has to pass through every open cell and close into a single loop, with no branches or dead ends, while flowing around walls and islands.
Follow the clues to reveal a hidden picture.
You work out which squares to fill from the clues, and a picture appears as you solve.
All of these puzzles work the same way: look for what can't be true, not for what might be. Our post on why a good logic puzzle never needs a guess shows that idea on a live board.
For Stars, the Star Battle solver explains any board you paint in, one step at a time, and we publish a worked solution for every daily Stars board. The strategy guide covers the techniques behind them.
Inkwell Games publishes four daily puzzles: Stars, Fields, Loopy River and Mosaic.
Yes. Inkwell describes its week as gentle Mondays and tough Sundays, so the difficulty climbs from Monday on.
Yes. Stars uses the Star Battle rules: two stars per row, column and region, with no two stars touching.
We publish free Star Battle boards every day, with an open archive and a step-by-step solution for every Inkwell Stars board. We also have free practice boards for Fields.
No. We are an independent puzzle site and are not affiliated with Inkwell Games.
TryHard Puzzles isn't affiliated with Inkwell Games. Stars, Fields, Loopy River and Mosaic are their games.