Croco-Puzzle walkthrough: daily puzzles

Croco-Puzzle logoNot a whole lot of time for posting from London, so here’s a little something I prepared earlier. Again, the whole thing is too long and too image-heavy for feed readers, so forgive me for making you click through.

Yesterday, we talked about how to register for Croco-Puzzle and how to play prize puzzles. Today, in the third part of the walkthrough, learn how to play daily puzzles. These are the absolute heart of the site.

There are many great sites which let you play logic puzzles online; there’s lots of top-level competitors at Nikoli, you can spend hours at Seth Weiss’s site and the sheer breadth of janko.at can’t be beaten. (Or can it?) If those aren’t enough, there’s Puzzlemix, Puzzle Picnic, happily Puzzle Fountain has resumed its competitions and a whole blogroll of others.

Nevertheless, Croco-Puzzle is the one that has had me coming back time and again, and this is because of its rating system that offers a captivating level of metagame that the others don’t. (Or do they?) Solve daily puzzles from Croco-Puzzle’s 40 different puzzle applets (and, if that’s not enough variety, the .pdf format puzzles can offer all manner of variants – anything, really) and, given enough time, your rating on the site will improve and you can earn kyu and even dan gradings. Sufficiently many of the very best logic puzzle solvers in the world solve, or have solved, that Croco-Puzzle can really bite its teeth into you in a way that others cannot.

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