Puzzle 95: Logicsmith v2.0

Fillomino Read here for instructions.

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

Puzzle 95: Logicsmith v2.0
Fillomino

Four years ago (okay, 45 months ago), there’s Logicsmith Exhibition, back when Grant was still active on his blog (before he migrated to Grandmaster Puzzles). Back then, I was still starting at constructing logic puzzles; you can see my submission there. Here is a “revamped” version: exactly the same layout as before, and each of 1-9 appears exactly four times as in the competition.

…okay, I just got this theme idea and toyed with it, to liven up my blog again.

Puzzle 89: Three-Four-Five

Fillomino Read here for instructions.

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

Puzzle 89: Three-Four-Five
Fillomino

Just a classic Fillomino to fill my blog. No particular reason of why I have that theme; I was constructing the opening and saw that I only used the digits 3,4,5, so I went ahead and set it as the theme. Also, it took me more time to get the particular ending I wanted… Spoiler: [If the place rotationally symmetric to where you did the opening is also where you feel like doing the same trick again, then you get my intention. And yes, I wanted to force both the bottom-left and top-right corners to end in that way.]

Now back to doing homework.

Puzzle 79: Hidden Object

Expected difficulty Hard • For personal reasons, I decide not to release the answer/solution for this puzzle. Sorry 😦

Puzzle 79: Hidden Object
Nonogram
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Puzzle 70: Mii~ >w<

Greater Than Fillomino Follow regular Fillomino rules. In addition, inequality signs appear on the grid; these signs must be satisfied by the numbers in the squares involved.

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

Puzzle 70: Mii~ >w<
Greater Than Fillomino
(Here for plain version)

So, as a “natural” follow-up of my current interest on roleplaying, this is obligatory. All givens form either the emoticon ^^ or <3. I wanted to include =3 (equals sign and 3, effectively two horizontally adjacent 3’s) but if I can use only two emoticons why not. I didn’t want to figure out what happens with only one emoticon though, this by itself is already difficult to construct…

Hard, yeah. Because a few parts are hard. But if I’d use the average, this would be somewhere around medium, because the easy parts are easy. And the puzzle breaks down nicely into parts. *insert obligatory reference to vore*

So! This puzzle is a gift for an RP friend that is curious about puzzles. He solved Puzzle 1, a puzzle I believe to be “final test to see whether you advance from beginner to intermediate Fillomino solver”. Even though he clocked 2 hours, this is a fabulous achievement for someone with no prior experience of logic puzzles. And so I felt really guilty when testsolving the puzzle; I found the puzzle to have the mentioned hard steps. There are even parts where my best method is still trial and error to some extent (read: “what-if”s), but hey. Who cares about time. Let’s see whether the aforementioned RP friend can solve this :3

And finally, yeah. Mii~ >w<

Puzzle 66: Ring of Blocks

Fillomino Follow regular Fillomino rules.

Expected difficulty Medium • Answer • Solution (196 kB)

Puzzle 66: Ring of Blocks
Fillomino

EDIT: Fixed ambiguity on top-right corner.

God how long has this blog been without puzzles vanilla Fillomino.

Well, yeah. I like Fillomino, but recent Fillomino puzzles I’ve published are all variants. Crazy variants, even. Here’s an attempt at making a vanilla Fillomino again. And yeah, now I’m using 16pt Century Gothic with 32px cell size. I’m not sure why I change the font so much; blame Will Shortz’s Puzzle Master Workout I think 😛

Speaking of crazy variants, remember Fancy Fillomino February? I’m going to do that again, only not on February, less puzzles, and crazier variants. Here’s a few genres of puzzles I’ve made, just as teasers: Operations, Liar Cipher, and Consecutive Rectangles. That’s not counting variants I made myself just for this series (not just reusing previous variants). Hyped up? See ya in end of October. Most likely the series will lead to my birthday.

Speaking of my birthday and puzzles. Remember Deception? Yes, I pretty likely will author another LMI test. I’m attempting for the test to be run on my birthday’s weekend; let’s see.

Whee.

You know the Liar variant where exactly one clue in each row/column is wrong? Okay.

You know the Cipher variant where all numbers are replaced with letters (identical numbers are replaced with identical numbers and different numbers are replaced with different letters)? Okay.

What happens if you combine both?

You say it’s impossible? Well, I also did say that when someone attempted to make it. But well… Yoshiap pulled it off.

Enjoy his Liar Cipher Fillomino. Let’s see whether I can make one of it too. Whee.

Deception Preview 4: A Tribute to The Foxger

Cipher Fillomino Follow Fillomino rules. In addition, each letter stands for some number. Same letters represent the same number and different letters represent different numbers.

Answer key: Enter the unit digits (last digits) of the numbers in the cells in the row/column.

Difficulty 5.5/10 • Target times 02:30 05:00 10:00 35:00
Solution Answer key (highlight →) 7655373322,2241444242 • PNG (not uploaded) • ZIP of PDF (not uploaded) • DOCX (not uploaded)

Deception Preview 4: A Tribute to The Foxger
Cipher Fillomino

Fourth preview puzzle. A tribute to mathgrant (or perhaps here), which is the most influential person for me about logic puzzles. There are just so many things he did to get me hooked on logic puzzles, and he has helped me on numerous occasions, the most recent one is being a testsolver for this Deception test. 😀

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