Saturday, April 8, 2017

Puzzle 316: Dead End Penta

This is a variation on the classic Penta puzzle.

Rules: Place some pentominoes into the grid without repetitions. Rotations and reflections are allowed. Pentominoes may not  touch each other, not even diagonally. Numbers outside indicate how many dead end cells of pentominoes use that row or column. Black cells must remain empty.


Thursday, April 6, 2017

Puzzle 315: Masyu/AntiMasyu-AntiSurround/Surround

This is a very interesting new type of loop puzzle.

Rules:
Draw a closed loop connecting the centres of some cells horizontally or vertically. All circles must be visited. The loop may not intersect itself. The loop has to go straight through every white circle, and make a 90 degrees turn in at least one adjacent cell, while it has to make a turn in every black circle and go straight through both cells adjacent to the circle. Some circles are not Masyu, meaning the loop does not obey either of the Masyu rules when passing through those circles. Around any Masyu circle, not all cells can be visited. Around rest of the circles, all cells must be used by the loop.


Friday, March 31, 2017

Puzzle 313: Closed Scrabble

This is a new variation.

Rules:Write exactly 3 words from the given list, in accordance with standard scrabble rules. Words not from the list cannot be read in the grid. Words can be read only in top to bottom or left to right directions. In the end, it must not be possible to add any unused word from the list, while satisfying the rules of scrabble. Given letters must be used by at least one word.


Monday, March 27, 2017

Puzzle 312: Adjacency Fillomino

This is a new Fillomino variation.
Rules: in addition to usual Fillomino rules, every odd-sized region is required to be adjacent to at least one odd-sized region, and every even-sized region is required to be adjacent to at least one even-sized region.


Saturday, March 25, 2017

Puzzle 311: Latin Fillomino

This is a new Fillomino variation.

Rules: In addition to usual Fillomino rules, each row and column of a shaded rectangle must contain different numbers, but not necessarily consecutive.


Friday, March 24, 2017

Puzzle 310: Fillomino with unique regions

This is a new Fillomino variation.

Rules: In addition to usual rules, no two regions may be identical, rotations and reflections included.


Thursday, March 23, 2017

Puzzle 309: Fillogane

This is a new hybrid between sashigane and Fillomino.
Rules: In addition to sashigane rules, regions of same size may not be orthogonally adjacent.

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Puzzle 308: Matter-Antimatter Tapa

This is a new tapa variation.

Rules: In addition to regular tapa rules, every clue appears in pairs of adjacent cells. Within each pair, One clue is a tapa clue, and the other is a pata clue. Determining which clue functions as what, is part of the solving process.


Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Puzzle 307: Indian Tapa


This is a new tapa variation.
Rules: In addition to regular tapa rules, any shaded cell Around a clue cell must be orthogonally adjacent to atleast one shaded cell of the same type ( same type means a cell which is around a clue cell).