Saturday, August 28, 2021

Puzzle 71 ("N is for Nanro", Nanro)

Have a Nanro!  First one on this blog in a few months.  This took the better part of an afternoon to write; getting a unique solution while enforcing clue symmetry was way harder than expected.

The below screenshot is from Penpa with shading to emphasize the theme.  The shading has nothing to do with the actual solve.

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Puzzle 70 ("Zero", Masyu)

Have a Masyu puzzle.  This is the first time I've tried to achieve clue symmetry for a vanilla puzzle in this genre, so getting this to work was more annoying than expected.  Hence the sea of white.

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Friday, August 20, 2021

Friday, August 13, 2021

Puzzle 67 ("Close-Up Rectangle", Tapa-Like Loop)

Yet another Tapa-Like Loop!  

Part of the reason I'm on a TLL kick right now is because I've been working through the corresponding GMPuzzles collection by Prasanna Seshadri.  I highly recommend it!

Rules (cf. Eric Fox): Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some empty cells. Clues represent the numbers of consecutive cells occupied by the loop each time it enters the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. 

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