Slow Squares

Beethoven’s 5th

A film in which 51 puzzle boards play the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. These are its boards.

Every board from the film is here, ready to play: Sudoku, Binario in all four of its forms, Nonogram, Suguru, Kakuro, Bridges, a star puzzle and Wednesday Frog. Each is a real puzzle with exactly one solution. The Nonograms are drawings of our own; every other board is dealt by the same generators as the site’s daily boards.

In the film, every note a board plays is a move it already forces, made in an order that plays the music. Here you solve them your own way, at your own pace.

Your progress stays in this browser, so a board you leave half done waits for you here.

Six boards, one picture

Six of the Nonograms make one picture between them. Each one you solve fills its square here, drawn from your own grid.

The knock

Horn call and second theme

Development

The return

Coda

The march

The last knock