Sunflowers (PZL games)
Rate itPlant sunflowers so every number counts exactly the flowers around it.
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Sunflowers is a free daily logic puzzle from PZL games. Each day's garden is a grid of shaded clue squares; every number tells you how many of the eight squares around it hold a sunflower. Plant the flowers and mark the empty squares until every clue is met.
About Sunflowers (PZL games)
Sunflowers is one of the original daily games on PZL games, a small puzzle site run by Perfect Level Games Ltd that also makes 18 Words, Zanagrams and Middle Word. A new hand-set garden appears each day for everyone, and earlier days stay playable from a calendar under Past puzzles.
The rules are close to Minesweeper with all the information on the board from the start. Some squares carry a number; the number counts the sunflowers in the eight squares that touch it, diagonals included. Clue squares never hold a flower themselves. From those counts you work out which open squares must have a sunflower and which must stay empty, and each puzzle has a single solution that does not need guessing.
The daily grid is 7x7, after a short 4x4 tutorial for new players. There is a pencil mode for trial marks you can accept or discard, a limited number of hints, and an explanation when you place a flower that breaks a clue. A harder Sunflowers Master sits beside it on the same site.
The play page carries Venatus display ads, in rails beside the board on a desktop and a banner above it on a phone; a NO ADS button leads to PZL Plus, which removes them. An optional account is offered but the daily plays without one.
It suits players who like Minesweeper's logic but want a short, guess-free puzzle a day.
How to play Sunflowers (PZL games)
- Open Sunflowers on PZL games; skip or play the short tutorial.
- Read the numbered squares: each counts the sunflowers in the eight squares touching it.
- Double-click a square to plant a sunflower, and mark squares you know are empty.
- Start from 0 clues, whose neighbours are all empty, and from clues that need every open neighbour filled.
- Keep going until every number is satisfied, then share your time.
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Tips
- A 0 empties all of its neighbours at once: clear those first.
- Compare two clues side by side: the squares they do not share often settle the count.
- Use pencil mode to test an idea without committing to it.
Questions
Is there a new Sunflowers puzzle every day?
Yes. Each day has a new garden, and past days can be replayed from the calendar under Past puzzles.
Do I ever have to guess?
No. Each grid is made to be solved from the clues alone.
Is it free?
Yes, it plays free in the browser with ads beside the board. PZL Plus, reached from the NO ADS button, removes the ads.
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