Monday, November 3, 2025

Genre Spotlight 65: Trixo (Puzzles 388 and 389)

Before beginning this post, a small update.  Currently, we're on entry 65 -- it's been a long ride!  However, all good things must eventually come to an end.  I always planned for this series to last only a year or so, and it'd be good to end on a nice, round number.  The last entry of the Spotlight series will be Entry 70.  (This means that the last post will be in mid-December.)

Today's genre is Trixo!  This type was invented earlier this year by PuzSQ/Discord user xetto.  It's an interesting type!  Feels Inaba-like, in a way.  (Though I said that about Corner Disorder last week.  Shrug.)

Rules: Place some shaded trominoes onto the grid to form a single diagonally connected network.  All clued cells are shaded.  Cells marked with a "╳" must touch another tromino diagonally.  Cells marked with a "◯" must not.