I've grown really fond Nikoli-styled Double Choco puzzles; they're much less focused on intuition and more on flow, and that has made for a much more enjoyable solving experience. I decided to construct one of my own. This was not easy to do! Took just over a half hour, I think.
Some day I want to construct a puzzle with this flow while also maintaining clue symmetry, but I'm not quite there yet :)
A bit of an older construction (I made this about a month ago), but it might as well receive new life on this blog. This was constructed partly as a challenge to not use any fancy deductions like parity bouncing when constructing a simple loop -- it's really easy to abuse those types of deductions given how little freedom you have in constructing. I think I succeeded on this one.
I finally dove into the world of Chained Block while working through the puzzles in Penpa 2022. This genre is so much fun! I decided to give it a whirl.
As usual, my tendency to create restrictive themes is on point here. This took a while to construct, but I'm happy with how it turned out (even if it is certainly on the easier side!).
I constructed this puzzle yesterday as part of a speedsetting event hosted in the CTC Discord. The theme was "0", and our goal was to construct a Statue Park. This one didn't place on the podium (that's what happens when Sam, Freddie, and Prasanna all participate...), but I'm quite proud that I managed to make this one in such a short time. It's even antisymmetric!
Note that this puzzle uses a double tetromino set.
Clones themes are fun to execute. Midloop is a fun genre to construct. Combine them both and you get something that was relaxing to create.
Here's another Mochikoro. It's nice to construct one of these with clues in the corners!
