Train Track Logic Puzzles: Shaped Grids, Linked Grids and Classic Routes, 200 Puzzles for Adults
Easy to learn. Built to challenge. Not just squares.
Train track puzzles are the pencil puzzle everyone is discovering, and this book takes them somewhere new. 200 puzzles start on simple square grids and travel all the way to shaped grids and linked grids you won’t find in other train track books.
The rules fit in one sentence: draw one unbroken railway from arrow to arrow, using the numbers to tell you how many squares in each row and column hold track.
Four kinds of puzzle
- 60 classic routes, the puzzle you know, to settle in
- 50 closed loops, where the track has to come back around on itself
- 50 shaped grids in the outlines of towers, temples, balloons, boats and more
- 40 linked grids joined by gates, where one track has to make sense across several grids
A trip to remember
The book is laid out as a travel journal, with 200 stops to tick off as you go. Every puzzle comes with its own travel tip, and the puzzles get nearly the full page, so the grids are big enough to work in comfortably.
What’s inside
- 200 puzzles, easy to hard, on 6 x 6, 8 x 8 and 10 x 10 grids
- A real on-ramp: How to Play, a step-by-step walkthrough, five key moves and a practice puzzle before you start
- A travel tip for every puzzle, so you are never stuck for long
- Full solutions in the back
- Fair puzzles: every one has exactly one answer, reachable by logic alone, with no guessing
Perfect for
Anyone who loves sudoku, nonograms or a good brain teaser. Newcomers to train track puzzles, who can learn everything in the opening pages, and seasoned solvers looking for harder grids. A screen-free gift for puzzle lovers and travelers, and a good companion for flights, road trips and quiet evenings.
Questions
I have never solved a train track puzzle. Can I start here?
Yes. The book opens with How to Play, a step-by-step walkthrough, five key moves and a practice puzzle, and it starts on simple square grids.
What is different about the shaped and linked grids?
Shaped grids take the outline of things like towers, temples, balloons and boats instead of a plain square. Linked grids join several grids with gates so the track runs through all of them. They are the harder sections of the book.
Will I have to guess?
No. Every puzzle has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.
How big is the book?
244 pages, in a 6 x 9 inch paperback.
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