I got to write a few puzzles for the Indian Puzzle Championship this year! Thanks to Prasanna for allowing me to write puzzles (bold move for a contestant to recommend constructors!).
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Puzzle 93 ("Antisymmetry", Balance Loop)
Have a Balance Loop! First one on this blog, apparently. Also quite surprised I managed to get the theme to work 🙂
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Puzzle 92 (Nanro)
Have a Nanro! As was the case the last time I constructed one of these for this blog, maintaining both region symmetry and clue symmetry is masochistic in this genre. I don't know why I keep doing this. 😛 It's probably because this "full symmetry" is a characteristic of many of the puzzles in Prasanna Seshadri's Nanro e-book (which, as usual, I highly recommend). Maybe someday I should construct a Signpost variation to keep my sanity.
The first draft of this puzzle had the unfortunate quality of being nonunique with two solutions at the very end that I couldn't disambiguate. (And adding an extra pair of clues ruined the solve too much for my liking.) This time, I still had to add redundant clues for disambiguation, but I don't think they ruin the solve as much. Testers in the CTC Discord seem to agree. It turns out that my intended path is slightly ruined, but people still liked it and that's the only thing that matters, really.
I've attached both a Penpa solving link and a puzz.link solving link to this post. Some people (like myself) solve Nanro puzzles by shading, and for those people a Penpa option is available. (Though, for answer check to trigger, you need either the numbers filled in or the unused cells shaded. Both should work; if not, let me know.)
Monday, December 6, 2021
Puzzle 91 (Numberlink)
Have a numberlink. This is a meme puzzle; I just happened to create a very windy solution and then plugged it into Noq for a uniqueness check. But sometimes meme puzzles are the best puzzles. Also, square.
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