Puzzles
On this page you can find puzzles, which you can solve to get early hints of our announcements. For the older puzzles, solved versions are also attached, together with a high score of the people who were the first to solve the puzzle!
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High scores
Festival theme
correct answer submitted by 7 people
- Piet van Steen
- Cathalijn Leenaars
- Pieter-Jan Hoornaert
Scavenger hunt
correct answer submitted by 3 people
- Suzanne Luijten
- Rob van Heijst
- Marte Kaagman
Minesweeper
correct answer submitted by 9 people
- Piet & Hanna
- Casper Klop
- Karel Schuller
Half a year
correct answer submitted by 5 people
- Rob van Heijst
- Leon Schoorl
- Jermaine Ramlakhan
Christmas & new year's puzzle
During the second half of December and the first half of January, the AIVD (general intelligence and security service of the Netherlands) has their christmas puzzle published (only Dutch). As a tribute to this great challenge, you can now find our own logical puzzle below.
If you have found the solution, send an email toThe puzzle: The solution should be a 6 letter word. Both the solution and the words in the puzzle are Dutch words, but their meaning is not important.
| achtzame |
| bling |
| dikbil |
| gouduil |
| haast |
| maan |
| mafkat |
| pils |
| prikgil |
| pruiler |
| tomaat |
| zaak |
Half a year to go!
Today, the 26th of November 2021, the NJF will take place exactly half a year from now! Of course this has to be celebrated with a puzzle.
If you have found the answer to the puzzel, send an email toThe puzzle: Each series of numbers in the left column can be transformed into one number. Match each of these resulting numbers to one element in the right column, and find out what the question mark should be.
| 2 4 3 2 5 2 97 1 2711 1 |
| 2 4 3 2 5 3 73 1 199 1 |
| 2 4 3 4 5 2 59 1 653 1 |
| 2 5 3 2 5 2 83 1 2767 1 |
| 2 5 3 2 5 2 89381 1 |
| EJC 1 |
| Milleniumbug |
| NJF 1 |
| World record 3 |
| ? |
💣 Minesweeper 💣
The correct answer to this puzzle was correctly submitted by 6 people, congratulations! The answer is: all 57 places in the Netherlands with "wijk" in their name! Want to know what this is all about? Finish the minesweeper below and see for yourself!
Click left to open a tile, click right to flag.
Flags left:
Circus scavenger hunt
On the occasion of the circusstad festival in May 2021, Rob van Heijst has developed an online scavenger hunt! Since the theme of next year's NJF is "puzzles", we are happy to feature this scavenger hunt as well! All text is in Dutch, but since the hunt is video based, it should be doable for non-Dutch speakers. :)
To get into the high scores at the top of this page, we asked you to send in the password of the final level. The answer to this was "jongleur", which was correctly answered by 3 people!
Festival theme
On the 1st of August, it was announced that this year's the festival theme will be "puzzles"! A week earlier we published the two nonograms below, the solutions of which being hints to this theme.
Festival logo
difficulty:
puzzle as pdf
puzzle as svg
puzzle as jpg
puzzle solution
introduction to nonograms
Easy hint
difficulty:
puzzle as pdf
puzzle as svg
puzzle as jpg
puzzle solution
introduction to nonograms
Christmas & new year's puzzle
During the second half of December and the first half of January, the AIVD (general intelligence and security service of the Netherlands) has their christmas puzzle published (only Dutch). As a tribute to this great challenge, you can now find our own logical puzzle below.
If you have found the solution, send an email toThe puzzle: The solution should be a 6 letter word. Both the solution and the words in the puzzle are Dutch words, but their meaning is not important.
| achtzame |
| bling |
| dikbil |
| gouduil |
| haast |
| maan |
| mafkat |
| pils |
| prikgil |
| pruiler |
| tomaat |
| zaak |
Half a year to go!
Today, the 26th of November 2021, the NJF will take place exactly half a year from now! Of course this has to be celebrated with a puzzle.
If you have found the answer to the puzzel, send an email toThe puzzle: Each series of numbers in the left column can be transformed into one number. Match each of these resulting numbers to one element in the right column, and find out what the question mark should be.
| 2 4 3 2 5 2 97 1 2711 1 |
| 2 4 3 2 5 3 73 1 199 1 |
| 2 4 3 4 5 2 59 1 653 1 |
| 2 5 3 2 5 2 83 1 2767 1 |
| 2 5 3 2 5 2 89381 1 |
| EJC 1 |
| Milleniumbug |
| NJF 1 |
| World record 3 |
| ? |
💣 Minesweeper 💣
Unfortunately this game can only be played on a larger screen, using a mouse with a left and right button.
Circus scavenger hunt
On the occasion of the circusstad festival in May 2021, Rob van Heijst has developed an online scavenger hunt! Since the theme of next year's NJF is "puzzles", we are happy to feature this scavenger hunt as well! All text is in Dutch, but since the hunt is video based, it should be doable for non-Dutch speakers. :)
To get into the high scores at the top of this page, we asked you to send in the password of the final level. The answer to this was "jongleur", which was correctly answered by 3 people!
Click here to go to the scavenger hunt
Festival theme
On the 1st of August, it was announced that this year's the festival theme will be "puzzles"! A week earlier we published the two nonograms below, the solutions of which being hints to this theme.
