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.
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.
Here's another Castle Wall; I'm quite happy with how this turned out. Thanks to Prasanna for testsolving!
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.
Or "Empty Middle", if you prefer.
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.
Haven't posted on this blog in a bit! Now that I'm done writing puzzles for this ~~mysterious~~ GMPuzzles project, I'm hoping to get back to a posting puzzles here. I still need to figure out the right balance between posting puzzles here and submitting them to GMP.
In the meantime, here's a square-numbered Tapa-Like Loop with a square theme. (Maybe I use this theme a bit too much. xD)
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.
