Nikoli Puzzle Magazine

The Japanese Puzzle Magazine

In 1980 the "NIKOLI" company starting publishing the first puzzle magazine in Japan, and now suply 10 newspapers, 70 magazines and a number of game companies. This is along side selling books, which I can still remember the fun I had with two books I was given for christmas. While they have sadly closed their online competions, there are still plenty of places to find them.
Their catalog includes;

• Akari
  (also known as Light Up)
• Dotchi-Loop
  
  
• Double Choco
  (also known as Double Chocolate)
• Dosun-Fuwari
  
  
• Five Cells
  (also known as Palisade)
• Fillomino
  
  
• Hashiwokakero
  (also known as Hashi, Bridges and/or Build Bridges)
• Hebi
  (also known as Hebi-Ichigo)
• Herugolf
  
  
• Heyawake
  (also known as Divided Rooms)
• Hitori
  
  
• Juosan
  
  
• Kakuro
  
  (also known as Kakkuro and/or Kakoro)
• Kurodoko
  (also known as Kuromasu)
• Kurotto
  (also known as Black Units)
• LITS
  (also known as Nuruomino)
• Makaro
  
  
• Masyu
  (also known as Pearls)
• Mid-loop
  
  
• Moon-or-Sun
  
  
• Nagareru
  
  
• Nansuke
  (also known as Number Skeleton)
• Norinori
  
  
• Numberlink
  
  
• Nurikabe
  
  
• Nurimeizu
  (also known as Nurimaze)
• Nurimisaki
  
  
• Pencils
  
  
• Ripple Effect
  
  
• Sashigane
  
  
• Satogaeri
  
  
• Shakashaka
  
  
• Shikaku
  (also known as Divide By Box and/or Divide By Squares)
• Slitherlink
  (also known as Takegali, Loopy in the Loop, Fences and/or Dotty Dilemma)
• Sto-Stone
  
  
• Sudoku
  
  
• Suraromu
  (also known as Slalom)
• Tilepaint
  (also known as Tairupeinto and/or Crazy Pavement)
  
• Tentai Show
  (also known as Galaxies)
• Usowan
  
  
• Yajilin
  (also known as Arrow Ring)
• Yosenabe
  
  

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