Deception Preview 2: A Chaotic Order of Circles

Semi-liar Masyu Draw a loop where all segments are parallel to the edges of the grid, turning only at cell centers. The loop must pass all circles. At a black circle, the loop must turn but may not turn at the squares exactly before it and after it. At a white circle, the loop may not turn but must turn either at the square exactly before it or after it (or both). In addition, every second circle that the loop passes has an incorrect color and should be the other color (white if it’s black and vice versa).

Answer key: Enter the lengths of the horizontal/vertical line segments in the row/column respectively. Enter 0 if there is none.

Difficulty 3.0/10 • Target times 01:30 03:00 07:30 20:00
Solution Answer key (highlight →) 211,6 • PNG (not uploaded) • ZIP of PDF (not uploaded) • DOCX (not uploaded)

Deception Preview 2: A Chaotic Order of Circles
Semi-liar Masyu

Second preview puzzle. Perhaps one of three or something puzzles that don’t have any certain theme.

*checks archive*

Well, seems like there are indeed only three that doesn’t have any theme, and only one will appear in the test. Whee. I have too high standards of aesthetics.

Deception Preview 1: Isolated Crowded Corners

Liar Slitherlink Draw a loop following the grid’s edges. A clue tells the number of edges of the square it’s contained in that belongs to the loop. In addition, every row and every column contains exactly one number that is false.

Answer key: Enter the lengths of the horizontal/vertical line segments in the row/column respectively. If there is a single 10-unit line segment or no line segment in the row/column, enter 0.

Difficulty 4.0/10 • Target times 02:00 04:00 10:00 30:00
Solution Answer key (highlight →) 211,2111 • PNG (not uploaded) • ZIP of PDF (not uploaded) • DOCX (not uploaded)

Deception Preview 1: Isolated Yet Crowded Corners
Liar Slitherlink

First preview puzzle. Not much to say besides that this is the first one made for Deception. If I recall correctly this one lies in the middle of the Liar Slitherlink puzzles in terms of solution times, but of course personal experiences differ.

Special Puzzle 10: A Regular 5×5 Fillomino!

Fillomino

Estimated difficulty 3.0/10
Master target time 00:08
Expert target time 00:45
Answer Not yet present
Solution Not yet present

Special Puzzle 10: A Regular 5×5 Fillomino!
Fillomino

Puzzle 62: Totally Antisymmetric

Masyu Fillomino Draw a loop following regular Masyu rules. The loop passes through centers of squares and can only turn at centers of squares, and can only turn 90 degrees. It might pass some circles. Whenever it passes a black circle, it turns but doesn’t turn both before and after it. Whenever it passes a white circle, it doesn’t turn but turns either before or after it (or both). The remaining cells are to be filled with numbers following regular Fillomino rules; circles not passed by the Masyu loop becomes Fillomino clues.

Estimated difficulty 3.5/10
Master target time 02:00
Expert target time 05:00
Answer PNG (11 kB)
Solution Not yet present

Puzzle 62: Totally Antisymmetric
Masyu Fillomino

Puzzle 61: A Building of Fillomino

See-Through Fillomino Stack the grids in a proper order. Each grid is a valid Fillomino grid. In addition, there exists light blue squares with a small G; such square represents glass, and instead of a standalone number, the glass contains the number at the exact same position at the grid exactly below it. (If it’s another glass, then by definition it should also have some number that can be seen by the grid above.) However, all glasses at the first floor (bottommost grid in the stack) see nothing; they contain empty square.

Estimated difficulty 3.5/10
Master target time 02:00
Expert target time 05:00
Answer PNG (11 kB)
Solution Not yet present

Puzzle 61: A Building of Fillomino
See-Through Fillomino

FFF 25: Yet Another Explosion

Norinori Fillomino Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, the regions form a valid Norinori grid: It must be possible to shade exactly two squares in each polyomino such that each black square is adjacent to exactly one other black square.

Difficulty 3.0/10 Master target 1:30 Expert target 2:30

FFF 25: Yet Another Explosion
Norinori Fillomino

Another out-of-sequence puzzle. The original FFF 25.

Also, it’s great that the original puzzle was broken; I managed to fit a polyomino of size over 4 times the largest given in this puzzle. Yay.

Puzzle 28: Square Battle

Fillomino Shapes Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, the given shapes must appear in the grid, at least as many as given.

Difficulty 4.5/10 Master target 1:00 Expert target 6:00

Puzzle 28: Square Battle
Fillomino Shapes

Renumbering is a pain. So, let’s make a puzzle that fills in the gap instead.

Here was the original Puzzle 28. Because ksun48 asked for a hard Fillomino variation, I believe that this is sufficiently hard, albeit the easy master target.

Also, yes, I don’t think Sky is going to tell his tale again. Most likely I will rephrase what he’s going to say, just like the paragraph two paragraphs above this.

Puzzle 56: Party Quadrants

Region Party Fillomino This is a hybrid of Clones Fillomino and Extra Region Fillomino. The two blue 3×3 grids are from Clones; they must be identical. The two red 3×3 grids are from Extra Regions; each of the grids must form another valid Fillomino grid.

Difficulty 3.5/10 Master target 2:30 Expert target 7:00

Puzzle 56: Party Quadrants
Region Party Fillomino

Yes, Sky is really inspired today. Why not?

FFF 28: Sequences End Here

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.

Battleships Fillomino Follow regular Fillomino rules. Afterwards, shade some of the polyominoes black so no two black polyominoes touch each other even diagonally. The numbers outside the grid tells the number of shaded squares in the row/column.

Difficulty 3.0/10 Master target 0:20 Expert target 2:00

FFF28: Sequences End Here
Battleships Fillomino

Sky is tired to make stories.

FFF 27: Epic Combo

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.

Extra Region Fillomino In addition to the regular Fillomino rules, the green cells form a 4×4 grid that is also a valid Fillomino grid.

Difficulty 3.5/10 Master target 1:30 Expert target 2:30

FFF27: Epic Combo
Extra Region Fillomino

So, how can Sky mesh two puzzles in one grid and one rule? Well, besides a pretty common Samurai variation, this is also possible.