Puzzle 218 ("Knight Moves", 5 Cells)

Have a 5 Cells.  This puzzle has actually been on Logic Masters India for about two years at this point!  But I think it's worth putting on here because it's one of the better puzzles I've written.

Online interface

 

Puzzle 217 ("Bathroom Tiles", Cocktail Lamp)

Cocktail Lamp is a relatively new yet good genre.  Rook (among other people, of course!) introduced me to this type, and while I don't fully understand how to construct it yet, I'm quite happy with how this turned out.  There is a similar looking puzzle from me on PuzzleSquareJP; I found this slight modification later and am more satisfied with the way the solve plays out.

Rules: Shade some cells such that all shaded cells within a region form a single orthogonally connected group. Shaded groups may not be orthogonally adjacent, but must all form a single diagonally connected network. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Online interface (puzz.link)

Puzzle 216 (Nurikabe)

I really should cross-post more of my puzzles here.  Have a Nurikabe.  This puzzle isn't too hard, but people over on puzsq seemed to enjoy it.

Online interface (puzz.link)

IPC 2024 Puzzles

It's been a few years since I last wrote for the Indian Puzzle Championship.  Thanks to Prasanna for allowing me to write again this year!  I didn't write as much this year as I did last time, but that's partially due to the number of constructors and partially due to the format.  Out of respect to the organizers of the event, I will only be providing pictures to the puzzles here (no solving links); if you're interested in buying the full set, worth €5.00/$5.56, email logicmasteradmin@gmail.com.

Puzzle 215 (Island Pool)

Hey, hi!  It's been a while (so I say every time I post nowadays).  I have still been writing puzzles, but most of my efforts have gone to specific projects.  For example, I wrote for the USPC this year!  Thanks to Nick Baxter for allowing me to construct puzzles for the contest.  Not all my puzzles are perfect, but I am happy with several of them. 

On a different note, here is a puzzle from three months ago that I'm finally posting here.  This was originally conceived as a Tapa variant, but it feels too far removed from Tapa for my liking.  I'm honestly not sure if it's really a variant of any genre -- Nurikabe, perhaps?  For now, I'm putting this ruleset under a new genre titled Island Pool, but I can be persuaded otherwise.

Rules. Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded.  Clues cannot be shaded and represent the areas of all unshaded regions which contain at least one of the (up to eight) surrounding cells.  Gray clue cells are considered neither shaded nor unshaded.

Online interface (Penpa)