Nikoli
- Nikoli is also a village on the island of Lefkada
Nikoli (ニコリ, nikori) Co., Ltd. is a Japanese publisher that specializes in games and, especially, logic puzzles. Nikoli is also the nickname of a quarterly magazine (whose full name is Puzzle Communication Nikoli) issued by the company in Tokyo.[1] Nikoli was established in 1980[1] and became prominent worldwide with the popularity of Sudoku.
The name "Nikoli" comes from the racehorse who won the Irish 2,000 Guineas in 1980; the president of Nikoli, Maki Kaji, is fond of horse-racing and betting.[citation needed]
Nikoli's claim to fame is its vast library of "culture independent" puzzles. An example of a language/culture-dependent genre of puzzle would be the crossword, which relies on a specific language and alphabet. For this reason Nikoli's puzzles are often purely logical, and often numerical.
Nikoli's Sudoku, the most popular logic problem in Japan,[2] was popularized in the English-speaking world in 2005, although it was originally an American puzzle, since Dell Magazines had created it and distributed it for years.[3]
The magazine has invented several new genres of puzzles, and introduced several new games to Japan.
Nikoli puzzles
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Moderately difficult Fillomino puzzle
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An uncompleted Hitori puzzle
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A Sudoku puzzle (image hyperlinked to solution)
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Some of the popular Nikoli puzzles,[citation needed] along with their Japanese names; terms in parentheses are published English titles for the same puzzles.
- Bag バッグ (Corral)
- Connect the dots 点つなぎ (dot to dots)
- Country Road カントリーロード
- Crossword クロスワードパズル
- Cipher crossword ナンクロ
- Edel エデル (Paint by Numbers, Nonogram, Griddler)
- Fillomino フィルオミノ (Allied Occupation)
- Gokigen Naname ごきげんななめ
- Goishi Hiroi 碁石ひろい (Go Stones)
- Hashiwokakero 橋をかけろ (Bridges)
- Heyawake へやわけ
- Hitori ひとりにしてくれ
- Hotaru Beam ホタルビーム
- Inshi no heya 因子の部屋
- Kakuro カックロ (Cross Sums, Kakro)
- Keisuke ケイスケ
- Kin-Kon-Kan キンコンカン
- Kuromasu 黒マスはどこだ
- Light Up 美術館
- LITS
- Masyu ましゅ
- Maze 迷路
- Picture maze 浮き出し迷路
- Mochikoro モチコロ
- Number Link ナンバーリンク
- Nurikabe ぬりかべ (Cell Structure)
- Reflect Link リフレクトリンク
- Ripple Effect 波及効果
- Shakashaka シャカシャカ
- Shikaku 四角に切れ (Divide by Squares)
- Slitherlink スリザーリンク (Fences)
- Stained Glass ステンドグラス
- Sudoku 数独 (Number Place, Nine Numbers)
- Tatamibari タタミバリ
- Tatebo-Yokobo タテボーヨコボー
- Tentai Show 天体ショー (Galaxies)
- Tile Paint タイルペイント
- Verbal arithmetic ふくめん算 (Alphametics, Cryptarithm)
- Word search シークワーズ (Word seek)
- Yajilin ヤジリン (Arrow Ring)
- Yajisan-Kazusan やじさんかずさん
References
External links
- Rules of 80+ Nikoli Puzzles in German and English
- Printable Nikoli puzzles
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