Deception

Finally finished testsolving that thing.

27 puzzles, in which 9 will be previews. There might be more to replace bad puzzles; in particular I still have one or two genres where all of its puzzles are clocked under 5 minutes. (I want to make each genre to have a “difficult” puzzle.)

Highly variable testsolving times (02:04 to 31:17; FYI, all puzzles are 10×10 (except one which is 6×6))…

…but I haven’t given all the puzzles to other testsolvers (they are currently holding the latest batch of 15 untested puzzles given in January).

Deception on 18-19 May 2013 (third weekend in May). Still tentative schedule though.

Testsolving

So it’s finals, yet I still find some time to testsolve Deception puzzles.

There’s only one comment now: Surveyors Heyawake is insanely difficult to solve, even by me aka the author. I got 31:17 in a standard size 10×10 Surveyors Heyawake, and that’s only testing the first puzzle. A bunch of bifurcations.

Soon I’ll make the dimensions much smaller to allow easier bifurcation. -_-

On a probably related note, Deception is currently scheduled for 18-19 May 2013 aka the third weekend of May. This is tentative though, and might change.