Eight kinds of logic puzzle. Every picture below comes from our free sample.
Sudoku
In our shared catalog
Every row, column and box holds each digit once.
Binary
In our shared catalog
Equal ones and zeros in every row and column, never three alike in a line, and no two rows or columns the same.
Nonogram
In our shared catalog
The numbers give the lengths of the filled blocks in each row and column, in order. The finished grid is a picture.
The pictures behind our nonogram puzzles are drawn with AI assistance, and a person approves each one.
Tents
In our shared catalog
Give each tree one tent of its own, directly above, below, left or right of it. Tents never touch, not even at a corner. The numbers count the tents in each row and column.
Skyscrapers
Each number is a building's height, and each row and column holds each height once. A clue counts the buildings seen from that side: a taller building hides every shorter one behind it.
Futoshiki
Each row and column holds each number once. Every sign between two squares points to the smaller number.
Calcudoku
Each row and column holds each number once. The numbers in a cage make its target with the cage's sign; they may repeat within a cage, never within a row or column.
Logic Grids
Each person has exactly one item from every group, and no two people share one. Mark yes with ✓ and no with X.
How every puzzle is checked
Our own software makes every puzzle and checks it. Nothing is delivered until it passes.
Each puzzle has exactly one solution, and a logic solver reaches it step by step, without guessing.
A puzzle's level comes from the techniques it needs, not from how many numbers are given.
When the PDF is finished, a second solver that shares no code with the first reads each puzzle back from the pages and solves it again.
No puzzle appears twice in a set.
Formats
Print-ready vector PDF with every font embedded, on US Letter or A4 pages.
Puzzle and solution data as JSON, for your own layout.
Complete book interiors for print on demand. Our own books are printed at 8.5 by 11 inches and 6 by 9 inches.
Need another page size? We make your custom sample at that size first.
Levels from easy to hard, and sets that climb from easy to hard puzzle by puzzle.
Large print layouts. Before we call a layout large print, we measure the smallest digit printed on the page.
Two kinds of license
Shared catalog. Puzzles from Kerf Puzzle, our free puzzle site, where they also stay free to play: Sudoku, Binary, Nonogram and Tents.
Made for you. A new set built to your brief. None of its puzzles appears in our books, on our site or in another customer's set, and we never use them again.
The shared catalog is licensed non-exclusively. A set made for you comes with an exclusive license, or as a buyout in which all our rights in the set pass to you. Term, territory and print run are agreed for each project.
We quote each project by the number of puzzles and the rights you need.
How it starts
Download our free sample: two puzzles of each kind, with solutions.
Tell us what you need: puzzle types, grid sizes, levels and page size. We make a short custom sample to that brief.
Then a small paid pilot, before any larger order.
About Kerf Press
Kerf Press is a small independent puzzle publisher based in Bursa, Türkiye. We publish our own puzzle books on Amazon and run Kerf Puzzle, a free puzzle site.
Our books
Extra Large Print Sudoku for Adults and Seniors
200 Puzzles from Easy to Expert with Full Solutions - Series 1
210 Sudoku, Futoshiki, Skyscrapers, Calcudoku, Binary, Tents and Deduction Grids from Easy to Hard, with Rules, Worked Examples and Solutions - Series 1