1NT-5

Because I can’t stand not to post a funny bridge game.

N ♠73 ♥T765 ♦AJT932 ♣8
E ♠KT8542 ♥AK8 ♦Q6 ♣K9
S ♠J96 ♥Q9 ♦K8 ♣AQJ652
W ♠AQ ♥J432 ♦Q754 ♣T743

Bidding: E1♠ Snb W1NT Nnb Enb Snb

West is dealer with 1 NT.

Guess what happens… Hint: Notice the long suits both I (South) and my partner (North) hold.

Trick 1: ♦J from North takes
Trick 2: ♦A from North takes
Trick 3: ♦T from North takes, South discards club (bad play after seeing the hands; we could get 1NT-6 here)
Tricks 4-6: Cashing diamonds, West discards one club

Trick 7: ♣8 from North, South takes with ♣J
Trick 8: ♣A from South takes
Trick 9: ♣Q from South takes
Tricks 10-11: Cashing clubs

Tricks 12-13: Gave up against East’s ♠K and ♥A

Yay. Besides the obvious miscommunication of going NT instead of spades (2♠ would be met here), luck because East’s ♣K is finessed, and misplay because West discarded one club before the run of clubs starts. If West didn’t discard a club, we could only cash three clubs tricks.

Puzzle 4: Take One

Surveyors Heyawake (v0.1) Follow regular Heyawake rules: Follow dynasty rules. Additionally, no connected white cells in the same row/column may span over one bold border.

There are numbers in the grid. For each “region” (bold-bordered area), exactly one of the numbers act as a Heyawake clue: the number is equal to the number of black squares in the region. All other numbers are Minesweeper clues: each number is equal to the number of black squares on the number or adjacent to the number.

Expected difficulty Hard • Answer • Comment/E-mail if you want a solution to be published

Puzzle 4: Surveyors Heyawake

Puzzle 4: Take One
Surveyors Heyawake

Original text
Yeah bad title maybe. But I think this one has some pretty tricks waiting (besides the tricks of Heyawake)… I’m trying to get a few basic tricks I figured out here. However, this would be rated somewhere like medium, or 4 out of 10. Whoa.

And yes, I miscounted; I didn’t see Puzzle 3 in my book so I reported that I had only two puzzles ready, while I have three. 😛

Additional text on 27 September 2013
Take One of Surveyors Heyawake. When the rules are still rather crude. (The finalized version is actually much more complex x3 )

Puzzle 3: Obligatory Douglas Adams Reference

Fillomino Follow regular Fillomino rules.

Expected difficulty Medium • Answer • Comment/E-mail if you want a solution to be published

Puzzle 3: Fillomino

Puzzle 3: Obligatory Douglas Adams Reference
Fillomino

Original text of post
The answer to Life, Universe, and Everything. Or is it the answer to this Fillomino? This Fillomino is not as easy as it seems, although it is indeed still easy for regular Fillomino solvers. But the theme is funny, right?

Additional text on 27 September 2013
*facepalming at my own choice of words a year and a half ago*

Last updated 27 September 2013

Puzzle 2: Whirlpools

Jigsaw Slitherlink Follow Slitherlink rules: Draw a loop along the gridlines (only horizontal and vertical movements between the dots) such that the loop never touches or crosses itself. A number on a square indicates the number of edges of the square that are on the loop (not inside, on).

In addition, the board has been broken into pieces. Assemble the pieces before solving. The pieces cannot be rotated nor reflected.

Expected difficulty Medium • Answer • Comment/E-mail if you want a solution to be published

Puzzle 2: Jigsaw Slitherlink

Puzzle 2: Whirlpools
Jigsaw Slitherlink
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Original text of post
Yes I’m doing weird variations now. Shouldn’t be too hard with several forced clues actually, but well, it’s first attempt on Slitherlink Jigsaw.

Last updated 27 September 2013

Dorabase

Yeah, I’m a fan of it. Wait who is not a fan of a series if they have like 21 consecutive volumes from the start of the series while it has only 23[citation needed] and only 21[see Gramedia bookstores in Indonesia] published in Indonesia? Wait I use too much Wikipedia style.

Anyway, anyone knows where Volume 22-23 on the internet? I only find as far as Chapter 19, which is in Volume 3. 😦