Slow Squares

Slow Squares Printables 3

Binary Diagonals Puzzles to Print: 200 Boards, Easy to Hard

200 puzzles that start gentle and end hard · four to a page for printing, or one to a page for a tablet · A4 and US Letter in one purchase · answers in a separate file · every board also playable online

Where to buy

Etsy

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What you get

  • Three puzzle files: A4 and US Letter with four boards to a page, and one with a single board to a page for a tablet.
  • The answers in a file of their own, so they never come out of the printer with the puzzles.
  • Four boards to a page for printing, and a third file with one to a page — for a tablet, or for a board you can rest a hand on.
  • Every board also playable on this site, with its answer a tap away.

How hard are they

Every board here was graded by the reasoning it actually needs, and a solver walked each one to the end before it was kept. None of them needs a guess, and none of them needs a rule you have not been told.

  • 8 × 840, to start onthe moves you can see at a glance and nothing more — a pair, a gap, a line with all of one digit — on the two long diagonals as well as the rows and columns. No board in this file can be finished without its diagonals.
  • 10 × 1088the same, and two to six times a whole line read at once — a row, a column or a diagonal held against every way it could still be filled.
  • 12 × 1272, at the backnothing you have not met on the 10 × 10s, only more of it: a whole line read six to fifteen times.

What is inside

  • Binary Diagonals200
  • Binary3
  • Binary Signs3
  • Binary Blocks3

A look inside

The first board of each size, drawn exactly as the file prints it.

  • 8 × 8
  • 10 × 10
  • 12 × 12

Find a board

Every board here is numbered, 1 to 209. Type a number to see that board, and its answer when you want it.