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Free Printable Slant Puzzles
Draw a / or \ in every cell so each circled number touches that many lines, and never close a loop.
About Slant Puzzles
Slant (Gokigen Naname in Japanese) is a pencil puzzle about diagonal lines. Every cell gets one diagonal. The numbers sit on the grid corners and say how many diagonals meet at that point. The finished lines must never form a closed loop.
How to solve Slant
- One line per cell: Every cell holds a single diagonal, either / or \.
- Corner numbers: A number on a corner says how many diagonals touch that corner (0 to 4).
- No loops: The diagonals can never join up into a closed loop.
- Unnumbered corners: Corners without a number can touch any number of lines.
Reading the sheet
- Circled numbers sit on grid corners.
- The answer key shows every diagonal.
Questions
What do 0 and 4 mean?
A 0 means no line touches that corner, which fixes all four cells around it. A 4 means all of them point at it.
How do I save these as a PDF?
Press Print / Save PDF and choose "Save as PDF" as the printer. Press New puzzles for a different set; there are 500 to draw from.
Play Slant online
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