Each of these sets of connected letters can be used to spell the full name of an NFL team (such as New York Jets). Start at one of the letters
(which is for you to determine) and move from letter to letter along the
connecting lines, ignoring the spaces between words. You will need to revisit some letters to spell the team’s name. As a hint to get you started, Puzzle 1 starts with the O.

The answer words in this grid march both across (“Rows”) and around (“Bands”). Each Row has two answer words to be entered across, from left to right. Their dividing point is for you to determine, except in row 7, where the words are separated by a black square. Each yellow or green Band has answer words to be entered clockwise, in a continuous string around the band, starting at a lettered square (A–F) and ending in the space below that square. The dividing points in each Band’s string of words are also for you to determine. All clues are in order. When you finish the puzzle, you will have used each square once in both a Row word and a Band word.

Takegaki is Japanese for “bamboo fence.”
Each of the grids here represents a plot of land. Your task is to enclose a part of the plot with a continuous fence. Each number in a grid indicates the number of fence segments that must appear along the sides of that numbered square. To build the fence, draw a horizontal or vertical line that connects one dot to the next and that agrees with the numbers, continuing until you return to your starting point and forming a single closed loop.

Can you divide this arrangement of pictures into six sections so that each section consists of five adjacent squares and contains one of each kind of picture? Bear in mind that the sections won’t have the same shape.