This is a Tuesday masyu, except that, for every clue, instead of acting normally, it is possible to make it valid by changing the length of both segments to it by one. More formally:
You must turn through black circles and in both directions you must go either one or three units.
You must go straight through white circles and in some direction you must go two units.
This is a Monday nonogram puzzle, except that every number used in it has either been increased or decreased by 1.
If you never got around to P.I.HUNT 2, I had a lot of people that said that Concept Art and Artificial Intelligence were really enjoyable, and the puzzles will be always still be available to solve and check answers, so you can give those a try.
This week I’ve got a got a bunch of Knapp-Daneben puzzles. After Puzzle 117, I wanted to see what else I could apply this variation to.
Yes, you did read that title right.
This is a Thursday LITS puzzle, except that you should shade exactly 3 or 5 cells in each region. Note that there are two possible trominos, and eleven possible pentominos (as P would create a 2×2 shaded region.) Also note that two I trominos may not touch, two I pentominos may not touch, but an I tromino may touch an I pentomino, and similarly for L.
In this Wednesday hybrid, each circle must act as it does in a masyu puzzle, or as it does in a balance loop (taken from GMPuzzles. somehow there is no rules page anywhere for this type?), or both.
Masyu and Tapa are my two most commonly made puzzles, although I only have 1 variationless masyu and 1 variationless tapa. I should make a variationless week next, as a change of pace for me.
This puzzle is a Tuesday nurikabe, except that each number is either 5 more or 5 less than what it should be. In particular for this puzzle, a 6 must either become a 1 or an 11.
Just like yesterday, I think this variation has next to no potential, but it’s just fun and silly enough to make 1 of. That pretty much holds for all the puzzles I’m going to post this week.
This is a Monday decuple back, which is exactly the same as a double back, except that you go into each region exactly ten times.
I’ve seen double backs, and a few triple backs, and just thought this was natural (although I don’t think that the “decuple back” type has much potential, but I’d love to see if someone makes a harder n-back.) Also, “decuple” really does not look or sound like a word to me.
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This is a Friday skyscrapers puzzle, however, the numbers {1,2,3,4,5,6,7} have been replaced with the letters {K,N,I,G,H,T,S}, in some order. No two letters can represent the same number, and each letter represents the same number in everywhere that it appears.
The text, reading “THIS IS INSIGHT ISN’T IT” refers to a “vision” themed test of puzzles (which would’ve been called “InSight”) I had been once planning on making, but decided against it. The puzzles from this week were all vision themed puzzles that I had made for it.
This is a Wednesday battleships puzzle, except with a different fleet. Instead of the usual fleet, place the 7 chiral tetrominoes. If you haven’t heard of this term, it means the 7 pieces you might find in a game of tetris, each consisting of 4 squares, that look approximately like the letters L,J,S,Z,O,I and T. You can rotate the pieces, but not reflect them.
As I said earlier this week, making the images is annoying with this laptop, so I’m just taking screenshots of the spreadsheets. This looked fine for the akaris, but not quite as good for the remaining puzzles. Hopefully the quality of this week’s puzzles makes up for it. 🙂
I graduated high school today :). Anyways, here’s a very difficult fillomino puzzle.
Wait a second! Fractional clues? Fractal grids? What is this?!? Before you start, there a few things to note:
After finding a solution, send me a picture, or the contents of the 1st and 7th rows (using the units digit of the numerator for a multi-digit or fractional number).
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