Puzzle 44, Special Puzzles 6-7: Insane Mind Comes Again

EDIT in 2017 because someone tried solving these: in Special Puzzle 6, row 7, the right clues should say ? 5 (the 5 is to the right) instead of ? ?.

Puzzle 44: Outside Fillomino. Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, each of the number outside describes the content of some cell inside that is of distance at most 4 from the edge (for example, a clue above C1 points to some cell in R1C1-R4C1, and a clue below C1 points to some cell in R7C1-R10C1). No two clues point to the same cell, and the clues are read in order (the clue that is two squares above C1 points to a cell earlier than the cell that the clue that is one square above C1 points to). Yeah weird rules; I’ll attach an example if necessary.

Special Puzzle 6: Outside Fillomino. Exactly the same rules as above, only that question marks represent numbers (not necessarily all identical or all different) which are all less than 10.

Special Puzzle 7: Cipher Kropki. Fill in the squares with numbers between 1-6 such that each number appears exactly once in each row/column. If and only if two orthogonally adjacent numbers differ by 1, there is a white circle between them. If and only if the ratio two orthogonally adjacent numbers is 2 in some order (the larger is twice the smaller), there is a black circle between them. Either circle can appear between consecutive 1 and 2. If no circle appears, then neither of the two conditions above apply. Count the solutions.

When your mind goes wild, these are the results… And yes, this is the only line of the “story”. Medium for Puzzle 44 and Special Puzzle 6, medium-hard for Special Puzzle 7.

Puzzle 44: Insane Mind Comes Again
Outside Fillomino
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Special Puzzle 6: Insane Mind Comes Again
Outside Fillomino [Unknown]
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Special Puzzle 7: Insane Mind Comes Again
Cipher Kropki [Count the Solutions]

Blah.

In other news, it seems that the element(s) that manage the images are broken (see previous puzzle). I’m trying to get them fixed. (EDIT: Seems like alt property of a elements hates line breaks. Manual edit on each image to remove the alt property solves the problem.)

EDIT: Whoo so I apparently forgot that Special Puzzle 6 has been posted before. This post will then have Special Puzzles 7-8. Too much care on numberings 😛

Puzzle 28: Mashed Fillomino and Special Puzzle 6: Just Can’t Get A Clear Sky

UPDATE: Here is a new Puzzle 28, 5 months after the original. Yeah.

After a smoothie, I serve a mashed potato—err, a mashed Fillomino.

Fillomino Epic Variation. No less than four variations that made an appearance in the original Fillomino Fillia are in this puzzle: Shape, Even-Odd, Greater Than, and Sum. Follow usual Fillomino rules. In addition, the given shapes must appear in the grid without rotation (because I apparently forgot this rule when constructing, let be so), all even numbers are connected in a single polyomino and so are for odd numbers, all inequality signs must be followed by the numbers in the respective cells, and the sum of the numbers in each cage must match the given. Calling MellowMelon for a better presentation.

Puzzle 28: Mashed Fillomino
Fillomino (Epic Variation)
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UPDATE: Ambiguity acknowledged. Assume R2C2 and R3C2 have different numbers. I will soon replace the puzzle with another one which should be similar (S,H,A,P,E shapes and a certain gimmick) but better made. Most likely I’ll use givens as opposed to sum cages and greater than signs…maybe.

So, yeah. My take at a Potpourri; MellowMelon made an extremely hard one that I haven’t solved 1.5 years ago and the post is linked above.

ksun48 solved Puzzle 25, and he asked for a “hard Fillomino variation”. I hope this is sufficiently hard, since otherwise I have a harder puzzle…

Special Puzzle 6: Just Can’t Get A Clear Sky
Fillomino Epic Variation [Count Solutions]

So, what’s the puzzle? You are given a 11×11 grid of Fillomino, and the five shapes as above. The only variations applied are Shape and Star (each row/column must have two stars occupying the space of a monomino each; no two stars are adjacent even diagonally). Count the solutions, and prove it.

I guess the title helps you in some way, but you still need to prove it. Yay.

In case you missed it, I served a smoothie (Puzzle 27) a few seconds ago.

Special Puzzles 2-4: Not Your Usual Logic Puzzles

Not your usual logic puzzles. For proof, see Special Puzzle 1 (no pun intended).

To be taken as very short (read: 10 seconds or so) (hopefully-)fun diversions when solving ridiculously tough puzzles. They are all ridiculously easy for that reason…maybe.

Also, I have prepared all the way to Puzzle 21. They will appear at 12 hours from another, so Puzzle 18 will be 12 hours from now and Puzzle 21 will be 48 hours from now. Puzzle 18 is a KenKen.