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How To Play Sudoku
Sudoku is a fan Japanese puzzle game. The rules of sudoku are very easy to understand:Sudoku

Kakuro: Solving Harder Puzzles
You can solve simpler kakuro puzzles simply by elimination: armed with your combination look-up

Play Hanjie Online
Have you heard of hanjie? Hanjie is a puzzle that works in a simliar way to sudoku, in that it

How To Play Kakuro
Kakuro is the latest sudoku-type game that people have started to play, having also emigrated from

Hanjie
Hanjie is a game that has been around for several years, and is called different names in different

How To Solve Kakuro Puzzles
The great thing about kakuro puzzles is that you can solve them with good old-fashioned logic

How To Solve Sudoku Puzzles
The First Encounter Like many of you, I was hooked to Sudoku Puzzles. In 2000, a friend of

Play Sudoku Puzzles Online
If you want to play sudoku puzzles online, and download 100 sudoku puzzles to play, give this site

How To Do Face Painting
Face painting is very popular with young children, at parties and carnivals and so on. It is quite

How To Play Hashiwokakero
Hashiwokakero is another puzzle that hails from Japan. How to play this puzzle? Well, this is

How To Play Trumps
Knock-out trumps is a fun and easy game for the family, including children. There are seven rounds

Kakuro Tips
There are many kakuro hints and tips sites, that list ways in which you can help solve a

How To Have Great Halloween Food
Working out what food to serve at an adult Halloween party can be hard - how do you put scary into

How To Play Snap
Snap is a fun and simple game of cards, that can certainly help you with your reactions! The

How To Play Masyu
Masyu is another popular Japanese puzzle game. You start with a grid, as tends to be the case

How To Make Halloween Punch
One great fun drink to serve at halloween is called halloween punch, and the best thing is, it is

Brainteaser 1
What might you place on the table, and even cut... but never

How To Make Your Conker Hard
If you are playing conkers, then you really want the biggest, or at least hardest conker, that you

Hanjie Strategy
The best strategy with Hanjie is to have a scan round for certain squares first. There is usually

How To Play Hitori
Hitori is another grid based puzzle game from Japan. It is one of the puzzles that has not

How To Make A Free Children's Game
Before throwing away cereal or soap packets, cut out all the large letters. These make a really

Play Pin The Tail On The Donkey
A traditional party game, but still fun, is pin the tail on the donkey. The rules are simple: a

How To Thumb Wrestle
A popular kid's game, as follows: - two players - each prepares by hooking the four fingers of

How To Play Hearts
Hearts is a popular card game, that people play either as a family or with friends. You can also

How To Play Hanjie
Hanjie is one of many puzzles experiencing an increase in popularity. It is one of the most

How To Win At Stare!
Blink plenty before you begin to get your eyes nicely moist. Then when you start staring, look

Lateral Thinking Puzzle
Here is a puzzle you might like to try: 4 people need to cross a bridge. They take the

How To Play Pass The Parcel
Another classic party game. A present is wrapped in many layers of wrapping paper. The

How To Win At Monopoly
There is one key strategy in Monopoly, and it is quite obvious. Yet too many people don't do

Sudoku
Sudoku is everywhere at the moment. In all the shops, sudoku books are number one. There is a

How To Solve A Cryptogram
A cryptogram is a puzzle whereby a sentence or phrase is encoded into other characters or letters.

How To Play Charades
Charades is a great fun and common party game. Basically it involves simply trying to get people

How To Solve Cryptograms
Cryptograms are puzzles whereby the letters of a phrase or saying that is well known are

How To Win At Cluedo
Winning at Cluedo is all about deductions and cross referencing, and making these as quickly as

How To Play Sevens
This is an easy game for all the family. The aim is to be the first person to get rid of all their

How To Play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
If you have just got the board game or the computer game, then you might just be finding that it is

The Answers: Brainteasers 1 - 15
1 - A deck of cards 2 - Fish (you can't lay a fish) 3 - lighter 4 - 15 times 5 -

How To Play Simon Says
One person is "Simon". The others must copy, after the phrase "Simon says". If he says "Simon

How To Play Codewords
Codewords is a puzzle whereby you are given a crossword grid with a difference. You need to

What Is Murder In The Dark?
This is the name given to the traditional hide and seek game, but played at night