Towers (PuzzleMadness)

About Towers (PuzzleMadness)

Towers, also called Skyscrapers, is a Latin square of building heights. Every row and column holds each height once (1 to 9 on a 9x9 grid, 1 to 5 on a 5x5), and the clues around the outside tell you how many towers you would see looking into that line from that edge. A tall tower hides every shorter one behind it.

The daily page opens today's puzzle on its own, and its title carries the date (on 3 October 2026 it read "Daily Medium Towers Puzzle for Saturday 3rd October 2026"). There is a separate dated puzzle for each size: Small, Medium, Large and Mixed. Past days stay in the archive, so a missed puzzle can be played later, and there is a print version and an image download of the grid. PuzzleMadness does not publish solutions: the site tells you when you have finished a grid correctly or made a mistake. Each completed puzzle adds to your total on the Towers monthly and all-time leaderboards, where only your best score on any one puzzle counts.

Start with the extreme clues. A 1 means the tallest tower stands right at that edge. A clue equal to the grid size means the line climbs from 1 up to the largest height in order. Clues of 2 next to the tallest tower and pairs of opposite clues settle much of the rest.

PuzzleMadness is a British puzzle site with dozens of daily puzzle types in the browser, from many sudoku variants to logic grids such as Nurikabe, Hashi and Slitherlink. It is free to play and carries ads. A free account keeps track of the puzzles you have finished and puts your name on the leaderboards, and the badges next to usernames mark how many puzzles a player has completed.

How to play Towers (PuzzleMadness)

1. Open the day's Towers page and choose Small, Medium, Large or Mixed.
2. Put the tallest tower next to every 1 clue, and fill any line whose clue equals the grid size in rising order.
3. Fill each row and column with every height once.
4. Check each edge clue counts the towers visible from that side; the site marks the grid solved.

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Tips

• A large clue means the first tower in that line must be short.
• The tallest tower is always visible, so it counts toward both clues of its row and column.
• Opposite clues in one line add up to at most the grid size plus one.

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