FFF 7: The Hybrid

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

Fillomino Tapa Follow regular Fillomino rules; ignore the green numbers and suppose that they are simply obstacles in the grid (like an empty hole that doesn’t have any number in it). Afterwards, shade some polyominoes black such that the shaded polyominoes form a tapa: They must form a single polyomino, but there may not be any 2×2 square that is all black. The green numbers are Tapa clues: Each number gives the number of consecutive black cells around the 5 squares orthogonally/diagonally adjacent to it.

Difficulty 3.5/10 Target time 1:20

FFF 7: The Hybrid
Fillomino Tapa

Sky loves experimenting. By whatever insane thoughts, Sky managed to cross from Fillomino to Tapa, and got the amazing idea of making a hybrid of them. Is it well-executed? Well, this is an example…

FFF 6: LITS or LIST?

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

LITS Fillomino Follow regular Fillomino rules. However, replace each polyomino of size 4 (tetromino) with one of L, I, T, or S, depending on its shape (each letter somewhat resembles the shape, but just in case (consider rotations and reflections as equal)). These tetrominoes must follow the rules of LITS; that is, they form a single polyomino, but there is no 2×2 area completely covered by these polyominoes (hence why there is no O tetromino), and no two identical tetrominoes are orthogonally adjacent (rotations and reflections, again, are equal).

Difficulty 4.5/10 Target time 2:00

FFF 6: LITS or LIST?
LITS Fillomino

A windmill is litsed– I mean, “listed” as one of Sky’s givens arrangements.

FFF 5: Yin Yang

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

Even-Odd Fillomino In addition to the regular Fillomino rules, all odd numbers must form a single polyomino, and so are all even numbers.

Difficulty 3.0/10 Target time 1:00

FFF 5: Yin Yang
Even-Odd

A balance of everything.

FFF 4: The Independence

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

Nonconsecutive Fillomino In addition to the regular Fillomino rules, no two consecutive numbers may be orthogonally adjacent.

Difficulty 3.0/10 Target time 1:20

FFF 4: The Independence
Nonconsecutive Fillomino

So devoid of numbers… Sky’s feeling void now. Or is he?

FFF 3: The Isolation

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

Consecutive Fillomino In addition to the regular Fillomino rules, every polyomino must be orthogonally adjacent to another polyomino with a size exactly 1 greater or 1 less than the polyomino.

Difficulty 2.5/10 Target time 1:00

FFF 3: The Isolation
Consecutive Fillomino

Sky finds it hard to believe that one of the kids from the local kindergarten has no friends just because “he’s odd”. So Sky makes this puzzle to show that everyone else is odd, not him, and also that he can make friends by finding similar people to him. What a story.

FFF 2: The Guards

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

Sentry Fillomino In addition to the regular Fillomino rules, if two numbers in the same row/column are equal, they must belong to the same polyomino.

Difficulty 1.0/10 Target time 0:15

FFF 2: The Guards
Sentry Fillomino

The guards are really incompetent! They make a puzzle that is easier than Sky’s currently easiest puzzle here.

FFF 1: The First Step

Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7×7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every 00.00 UTC+7 a new puzzle will be up. The basic Fillomino rules apply unless otherwise indicated.

Fillomino Divide the grid into polyominoes and put a number in each cell indicating the area of the polyomino it’s contained in. Two orthogonally adjacent numbers are equal if and only if they belong to the same region; in other words, no two regions of the same size may be orthogonally adjacent.

Difficulty 1.5/10 Target time 0:40

FFF 1: The First Step
Classic Fillomino

Sky has committed himself to a rather time-consuming project of constructing Fillomino puzzles for the entire February. Can he keep up with the deadlines?

Puzzle 55: Totally Linked Grids

Fillomino Borders, with Two Pairs added. There are four grids here. For each position in the grid (for example, the four R1C1 cells), it must be possible to divide the four numbers into two pairs, within each pair the numbers are identical. For example, it’s possible to have 1,1,2,2 or 3,3,3,3 in the four R1C1 pairs, but neither 1,2,3,4 nor 1,2,2,2.

As perceived by the author…
Difficulty: 4.0/10
Target time: 1:20

When Sky is drunk… *hic*
…erm, drunk with puzzles obviously. Anyway, when Sky is drunk by puzzles not by alcoholic stuffs, he can make extreme variations like this.

Puzzle 55: Totally Linked Grids
Fillomino Borders Two Pairs

Quite a bad response of MellowMelon’s insanely wonderful 10-genre linked puzzle, but should not be that easy to break into.

On an unrelated note, I’m going to take NTU’s entrance exam this weekend. Yay. A somewhat related note is that February is full of exams:
1,4,5,6,7,8 Feb: First mock National Exam
12,13,14 Feb: Practical exams for Indonesian and English
18,19,20,21,22,25 Feb: Second mock National Exam
26,27,28 Feb: Practical exams for the science subjects
Rawr.

On another unrelated note, 24 puzzles in my Deception’s stash ready. Still aiming for a safe 27 (so I have preview puzzles + test puzzles)…

On even another unrelated note…wait, not really. I make a goal for myself of doing Fancy Fillomino February, with 28 7×7 Fillomino puzzles, most likely with a bunch of variations you may or may not have heard. Since one of my greatest strengths is Fillomino, this should be doable if I keep myself inspired to make 28 puzzles. As of time of post (28 January), I haven’t made one. Can I prepare sufficiently many puzzles for February within 3 days so Fancy Fillomino February can start? And given that I have absurdly large amount of exams in February, can I keep making puzzles until at least I’ve prepared everything while maintaining high scores for the mock tests?

(If Fancy Fillomino February doesn’t appear, most likely I’ll post May Fillomino Mutants, in exchange to the fancy triple-F series name. Blah.)

Puzzle 54: Missing Buildings Information

Skyscrapers Kropki. Inside the bordered square, put the numbers 1-6 to the cells such that each row and column contains exactly one of each number. Outside the bordered square, put the number of visible “buildings” from that direction looking inside the grid (numbers act as buildings and taller buildings hide shorter buildings, so 24135 sees 3 buildings (2,4,5) from the left and 1 building (5) from the right). There are Kropki circles appearing. For each black circle, one of the numbers on its sides must be exactly twice of the other. For each white circle, the two numbers must be consecutive. There is no restriction for cells not separated by circles, unlike regular Kropki.

Consider yourself done if you get the numbers inside the grid.

As perceived by the author…
Difficulty: 4.5/10
Target time: 2:30

This city is a bit insane. Not only some buildings are simply “an adjacent building stacked twice” or “an adjacent building with one ‘ground’ floor”, but there aren’t actually any people managing the heights; only some observers seeing from the outside of the grid. And it even e-mailed Sky the backed up information about a district in the city after the city had lost the record somewhere, asking Sky to solve it. Apparently the city cannot afford sending people to inspect the heights…but then, good news to Sky, as he’s even more well-known as a puzzle solver.

Puzzle 54: Missing Building Information
Skyscrapers Kropki

A preview of my upcoming LMI test, Deception in May 2013. Or in June 2013, depending on my business. Skyscrapers Kropki is one of the nine genres that are in the test.

Puzzle 55 in 24 more hours!

Also, seems like there are stupid bugs on images. If you see any image to be heavily distorted, just click to view.

Puzzle 53: Broken Tiles

Parquet. Shade exactly one subregion in each bold-bordered region such that all shaded regions are connected and there is no cycle anywhere (from each shaded cell, there is exactly one path to each other shaded cell passing shaded cells).

As perceived by the author…
Difficulty: 3.0/10
Target time: 1:20

This client is hard to satisfy. After breaking each of his 25 square tiles, he still wants to make his floor neatly decorated and he doesn’t want to buy new tiles or otherwise rearrange everything to make it easier. But it becomes a logic puzzle, which Sky excels at. Let’s try satisfying this tough customer, and just hope he gives Sky his well-deserved earning.

Puzzle 53: Broken Tiles
Parquet

Stay tuned for Puzzles 54 and 55, which will be up exactly 24 hours after the previous puzzle (so Puzzle 54 in 24 hours and Puzzle 55 in 48 hours)!