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?
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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.
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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.
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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.)
Retrograde Battlemats.
Follow similar Fillmats rules. Divide the grid into several rectangles, each of which must have 1-unit width and a height of between 1 and 4 units inclusive (or vice versa). No two rectangles with equal area may be orthogonally adjacent. A number gives the size of the rectangle it’s contained in. Differences from usual Fillmats rules: You can have multiple numbers in the same rectangle (like Fillomino), and four rectangles may meet at a point.
Afterwards, interpret the rectangles as usual Battleships ships, and solve the resulting Retrograde Battleships puzzle. Mark some of the ships black so the exact quantity of ships as shown in the fleet below are marked (aka for this puzzle, 1 battleship of 4-unit length, 2 cruisers of 3-unit length, 3 destroyers of 2-unit length, and 4 battleships of 1-unit length). No two ships may touch each other even orthogonally. Numbers outside the grid gives the number of ship segments in the corresponding row/column.
“Have you identified the ships Sky?”
“What? Are you expecting me to do this task really quickly? I even have no prior experience.”
“Just try.”
“Yeah, I’m trying if you can’t tell. Or actually…I think we can deduce all the ships from only this information.”
“Are you serious?”
“Hopefully so. Just try; if you miss something, I’ll try to identify something that will help. But see, this is more efficient with not that much cost to identify everything…”
“Yeah yeah I know, Sky the Puzzle Master. Okay, let me solve this.”
“Also, seeing from the information, if it’s unique then it should be medium, but let’s see…”
Puzzle 50: Sea of Ships
Retrograde Battlemats
Yay 50 puzzles! New hybrid.
This is mostly a proof of concept. I’m posting a lot of those. However, I do see quite neat interactions possible; I actually put in one of those here.
Yes, I forgot a few of Fillmats rules because I rarely see them. Heck, the correct name is actually Fillmat, but let’s use the “s” for “my” “variation”. Blargh.
Anyway, Puzzle 51 has also been planned, and if I schedule correctly, it should show up in about 21.5 hours aka midnight PST.
Fillomino Greater-Than-Kropki. Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, inequality signs and Kropki circles appear; these must be followed.
…and Happy New Year! It’s 2013 in Indonesia now, and also in Flygrass Town. Actually I’m not sure what year it is in Flygrass Town—some sources say 2413—but surely new year. It’s still cold, reading 9°C now. Okay, it isn’t exactly cold for people used to it, but still. Sky celebrates the occasion with another puzzle, a medium puzzle combining two of his favorite genres.
Puzzle 48: And Happy New Year!
Fillomino Greater-Than-Kropki
When you’re reading this, I will be most likely celebrating New Year in Pangandaran with my family. Beginning 2013 with a new variant puzzle, with my classic style. Hence my resolution is to be creative with whatever knowledge I have (and obviously to learn more). Enjoy the puzzle and Happy New Year!
Kropki Fillomino. Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, Kropki circles appear, although not necessarily all. Click above for better rules.
UPDATE 02-Jan-2013: Blargh. First, a non-unique puzzle with unknown amount of solutions. Second, a non-unique puzzle with 11 solutions. I hope I managed to reduce the number of solutions in the second puzzle by 90.91% with the addition of a circle.
Medium-hard, after erring twice. Blargh.
Puzzle 46: Black, Black Everywhere
Kropki Fillomino
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]
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 😛
Kropki Fillomino. Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, Kropki clues appear on the grid. If two numbers are separated by a black circle, then one is double of the other. If two numbers are separated by a white circle, then they are consecutive integers. Note that if there is no circle, then it doesn’t mean that the two cells have none of the two relationships (double or consecutive). Between 1 and 2, either circle may appear.
And we’re finally on the last puzzle! It’s apparently a genre invented by…er…let me see.
*skims*
*skims further*
*doesn’t skim further* Okay, sorry. Apparently this is the chef’s original, or it should be so since the chef was too lazy— err, failed to find any other puzzle of the same variant. Anyway, enjoy our last medium meal…
…wait, Chef! Why is it another medium?!
Uhm anyway, enjoy this one, and see you in the next party!
Puzzle 38: Fillomino Party! Part Finale!
Kropki Fillomino
Uh wait. Chef, is this lower-right part is truly empty?
…uh, no answer. My chef likes to escape from questions. Anyway, I suppose that means yes.
Yes indeed. Have fun with this final puzzle! I’m off to study for finals. Don’t expect too much until, say, a few days after 3 December? My last finals will be on 3 December. Non-puzzle posting will probably resume as usual depending on whether I get something to post.
Greater-Than Fillomino. Follow usual Fillomino rules. In addition, inequality signs appear on the grid. Given inequalities must be satisfied by the numbers in the corresponding cells. Try MellowMelon’s too if you don’t get the rules.
So, you’re satisfied with the first meal? You’re not done yet.
This one is a puzzle, which genre is inspired from some yellowish fruit. A melon perhaps? Although I’m not sure how a melon can make puzzles. Or is it a Melon-pult? *shudders*
Umm, anyway. Enjoy. Another medium meal. Hey chef, is there going to be any heavy meal or something?
Puzzle 37: Fillomino Party! Part 2!
Greater-Than Fillomino
Part 2 of the party. One more to go. This theme of no number at all should have been done somewhere. (After an educated guess and a look on it, the original Fillomino Fillia has it.) Yay. Stay tuned for the last in the batch…let’s take a guess on the variant, shall we?
Chaos at the Sky 