I first saw Top Heavy a few years ago in a Puzzle Ramayan contest and thought it was cute. At the time, I made a TomTom hybrid but never ended up constructing any vanillas. I still believe that this type is cute -- it reminds me of Fuzuli in several ways -- but constructing one of these is not easy.
Rules: Place numbers from the range given outside the grid into some cells so that each row and column contains each number once. When two numbers touch vertically, the one on top must be larger.
Both puzzles today are tricky. (Top Heavy can be like that sometimes.) The first grid involves range 1-4 on a 6x6 grid, while the second one involves range 1-5 on an 8x8 grid. I had originally tried to construct a 1-6 on this 8x8 grid, but that range proved too restrictive, unfortunately.
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