5×5 cat logic puzzles

Original puzzles, ready for a little quiet thinking.

A cat stretching next to a small plant

This collection contains 80 original 5×5 boards. Each has 5 connected regions and needs 5 cats. The compact grid keeps a whole position easy to inspect; the reasoning still depends on candidates and region shape. Size and difficulty are separate: all three reasoning groups are available in this collection.

Size
Difficulty

Difficulty reflects the reasoning, not just the board size.

80 puzzles

gm-5-0001: 5×5 regional boardBBAACBBDACDDDDCDDDCCDEEEC

gm-5-0001

5×5 challenge

1 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0002: 5×5 regional boardAAAAABBAACBBDCCEEDCCEEDCC

gm-5-0002

5×5 intro

2 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0003: 5×5 regional boardBBCAABBCCABBCCCDDCCCDDEEE

gm-5-0003

5×5 challenge

1 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0004: 5×5 regional boardBAACCBAACCBBCCCDDCCEDDDEE

gm-5-0004

5×5 intro

3 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0005: 5×5 regional boardBBBAABBBAABECCABEDDDBEEDD

gm-5-0005

5×5 challenge

0 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0006: 5×5 regional boardBBAAABBACCDDCCCDDDCCDDDEE

gm-5-0006

5×5 intro

3 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0007: 5×5 regional boardAAAABAAABBCDDDDCDDDDCDDDE

gm-5-0007

5×5 practice

0 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0008: 5×5 regional boardCAADBCAADBCCCDDECDDDECDDD

gm-5-0008

5×5 practice

1 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0009: 5×5 regional boardBBBAABBBCADDCCCDDDCCEEEEC

gm-5-0009

5×5 intro

2 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0010: 5×5 regional boardAAAAAACAABCCDAAEEDDAEEEDD

gm-5-0010

5×5 intro

2 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0011: 5×5 regional boardAAABBAAABBCCCBBDDCEEDDEEE

gm-5-0011

5×5 intro

2 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

gm-5-0012: 5×5 regional boardCAABBCBBBDCCEBDCCEDDCEEDD

gm-5-0012

5×5 challenge

1 fixed cats. Original, unique solution.

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Learn from an original board

Sixty selected puzzles have a full walkthrough. The remaining boards can be played from this library without creating hundreds of near-identical index pages. Every published board passes the same connected-region, unique-solution and proof-replay checks.

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