# Ad-free logic puzzle site

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Ad-free logic puzzle site and 17 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend this ad-free site for its varied puzzles, including Sudoku and nonograms, and its newspaper look. Critics say some solutions are non-unique and sign-up is required.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun to play (2 comments): "Was fun. Wanted to play another medium one so created an account" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643406)) "Oh, this is kinda fun, I'm gonna play with it for a bit!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631788))
- Pleasing newspaper-style look (2 comments): "I like the WSJ/newspaper look of the site, nice!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642136)) "Love the look of the site." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636690))

## What people warn about

- Sign-up required to keep playing (5 comments): "you can't go back to it because you're just prompted to sign up or log in" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632042)) "forcing you to sign up with a temp email address for no good reason?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632432)) "It won't even let me play sudoku if I don't sign-in." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638709))
- Multiple valid solutions rejected (3 comments): "the solutions are non-unique and there you sometimes make random mistakes, which is a bit annoying" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635322)) "that Sudoku puzzle has multiple valid solutions, whereas the page only seems to accept a single one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631094)) "why wouldn't 6 be valid there?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631019))
- Clumsy controls and mode switching (2 comments): "controls are a little off" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640905)) "having to switch between "star" and "exclude" modes is annoying on desktop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639456))
- Feels machine-generated, lacks human touch (3 comments): "since a human would know these are bad nonograms, i have to assume this is all llm-generated." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638936)) "Missing small details like these makes it fall into the uncanny valley." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631151)) "Not even trying to give it a human touch." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631994))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Outer Wilds](https://hackerapproved.com/p/outer-wilds.md): 65 recommend
- [enclose.horse](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enclose-horse.md): 64 recommend
- [The Witness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/witness.md): 60 recommend
- [Braid](https://hackerapproved.com/p/braid.md): 36 recommend
- [Blue Prince](https://hackerapproved.com/p/blue-prince.md): 30 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ad-free logic puzzle site", https://hackerapproved.com/p/show-hn-logic-puzzle-site/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).