Skyscraping Notation Glossary
Walkthrough Foreword Primer Terminology The Game Plan Clueless
Techniques Guesswork, I’m Guessing? Skylining Pencilmarks Haven Couples Pinpoint Firing Range Recursion & Abstraction
Cases Silhouette Stairs Lighthouse Blockade Meet in the Middle Leap of Faith Slide Hideout High-Rise Middle Ground Higher-Rise Successor Outflanked
Showerthoughts The Discrete Difficulty of Size Satisfaction Imagination vs Guesswork Mistakes Nontriviality
Solutions 6x6: Hyperthetical 6x6: The Power of Sudoku 5x5: A Curious Crossways
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Great Skyscrapers

Here are some Skyscrapers which were really satisfying to solve. I’ll (very slowly) be making solution walkthroughs for all of them.

5x5

A Curious Crossways

3
31
4
3
2
2

Can’t Solve?

https://www.brainbashers.com/p541729

Just a Satisfying Solve

https://www.brainbashers.com/p979573

March 4

https://www.brainbashers.com/p477612

3
3
22
22
32
32

Some lovely symmetry, right?

March 13

https://www.brainbashers.com/p803777

March 14

https://www.brainbashers.com/p082977

March 26

https://www.brainbashers.com/p138680

August 5

https://www.brainbashers.com/p977315

Cool concept, very handmade!

October 4

https://www.brainbashers.com/p961237

Crazy crux.

November 22

https://www.brainbashers.com/p228337

May 4

https://www.brainbashers.com/p255487

Smooth reasoning

April 22

https://www.brainbashers.com/p637037

Ending collapse!

June 25

https://www.brainbashers.com/p705390

End of a speedrun session, turned out to be quite nontrivial

June 5

https://www.brainbashers.com/p753023

Tough.

October 17

https://www.brainbashers.com/p334483

Worth the struggle.

October 12

https://www.brainbashers.com/p987896

Cool spot.

6x6

The Power of Sudoku

35
3
24
3
32
3
2

5 Pinpoints

https://www.brainbashers.com/p124083

June 24

https://www.brainbashers.com/p150732

October 1

https://www.brainbashers.com/p273095

October 27

https://www.brainbashers.com/p840623

October 5

https://www.brainbashers.com/p082457

September 14

https://www.brainbashers.com/p330726

March 15

https://www.brainbashers.com/p725782

March 12

https://www.brainbashers.com/p193150

February 7

https://www.brainbashers.com/p522985

January 31

https://www.brainbashers.com/p268130

7x7

Aug 22

https://www.brainbashers.com/p913255

2323
44
1
33
53
324
4

My first ever 7x7 (hard). Completed it over about 2 days.

2026 February 23

https://www.brainbashers.com/skyscrapers312721

Solved in ~35:40, so satisfying towards the end. Whew!

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Last updated 17 June 2025

Skyscraping by Sup#2.0

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