Thursday, March 31, 2022

Puzzle 99 (Voxas)

It looks like the third set in Logic Masters India's speed competition is Voxas Vacation by Eric Fox!  Eric is an amazing constructor and I'm sure the puzzles will be high quality.

In the meantime, have a Voxas puzzle.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Puzzle 98 ("Wheel", Tapa)

Hi, have a Tapa!  (Two posts in one day?  Whoa!)

I actually wrote this back in July, when PANFOPCWHTTAPA was just a floating idea (and closer in difficulty to the GAS series of Sudoku puzzles in the Cracking the Cryptic discord server).  When we decided to actually start P-TAPA production, the difficulty changed from "genuinely approachable" to straight up "beginner", and this was deemed too hard for the contest.  However, it's still good enough, I think, to post on this blog, so here it is!

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Puzzle 97 (Rassi Silai)

Have a Rassi Silai puzzle!  This genre is funky.  Also, as with any puzzle involving regions, forcing uniqueness without completely compromising the logical flow is not the easiest thing to do.  I'm quite happy with how this turned out. 🙂

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Puzzle 96 ("Eagle", Mochikoro)

Hey all, it's been a while :)

I haven't been writing as many puzzles lately, apart from ones that have appeared in non-blog projects.  I think I'm getting to the point where I'm in the right state of mind to write puzzles again, but I'm not entirely sure about that.  So consider this as a "possible but not complete" revival of sorts.

To celebrate, here's a genre that I've never posted on this blog before: a Mochikoro!  This genre is pretty interesting, but certainly has its fair share of uniqueness issues.

EDIT: I've been told this actually looks like a butterfly.  Whoops.

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