Two free practice puzzles
Signal Station
Take a short puzzle break together. Restore the relay order, decode a message, and compare how you got there.
- About 5–10 minutes
- 2–6 people, or try solo
- No sign-up required
A minute to get ready
Share this page or your screen. For each puzzle, let one person read the instructions and another check the proposed answer; swap roles for the second puzzle. You only need the information on this page.
Take turns offering an idea. Anyone can pass, ask for the hint, or open the solution whenever the group is ready. There is no timer or score.
You can read, speak, or type your ideas. No sound, color matching, quick reactions, or dragging is needed. Zoom the page as much as you like.
Restore the relay order
Puzzle 1 · Ordering and deduction
Four relays must transmit in four slots, from first to last. Use each relay exactly once. The cards below are listed alphabetically, not in transmission order.
- Kite
- Moon
- Pine
- Wave
All three rules must be true:
- Moon transmits immediately before Pine, with no relay between them.
- Kite transmits sometime after Pine.
- Wave transmits sometime before Moon.
Your answer: Name all four relays in transmission order, from first to last.
Open a hint for puzzle 1
Treat Moon and Pine as a two-card block. One named relay must go before that block, and another must go after it.
Reveal the solution to puzzle 1
Wave → Moon → Pine → Kite.
Wave must come before Moon, Moon must be immediately before Pine, and Kite must come after Pine. These rules place all four relays, so there is only one possible order.
Read the radio message
Puzzle 2 · Sorting and decoding
The station received five pulses out of order. Each pulse points to one letter in the grid. Put the pulses in pulse-number order, 1 through 5, then read their letters to find a five-letter direction.
For every pulse, use the row number first, then the column number. For example, row 1, column 1 contains A. There are no extra steps or hidden letters.
| Row | Col 1 | Col 2 | Col 3 | Col 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | R | M | T |
| 2 | H | E | V | K |
| 3 | P | N | S | W |
| 4 | O | D | L | I |
| Pulse number | Row | Column |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 2 |
The received list is scrambled. Begin with the row labelled pulse 1.
Your answer: What five-letter direction do the pulses spell?
Open a hint for puzzle 2
Pulse 1 points to row 3, column 2: N. Find pulse 2 next, even though it appears earlier in the received list.
Reveal the solution to puzzle 2
NORTH.
In pulse-number order: 1 → row 3, column 2 → N; 2 → row 4, column 1 → O; 3 → row 1, column 2 → R; 4 → row 1, column 4 → T; 5 → row 2, column 1 → H.
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