Puzzle 76: Themeless Hidato

Hidato Put a number between 1 and 100 inclusive such that two consecutive numbers are adjacent (orthogonally or diagonally).

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Puzzle 76: Hidato

Puzzle 76: Themeless Hidato
Hidato

This one has been laying in my archive for I forgot how long. Instead of having a long absence of puzzles, let’s throw this out. I was planning to use it on a test, but considering now I use exclusively new variants, I think it won’t do any good into the test.

Also, as you can see, I’m figuring out how to make a good tooltip thingy. (See the dotted 100 above? If you use a desktop computer, you can hover your cursor above it. If you can’t (on mobile phone? or something), then don’t worry, it’s not that important, only that you’re missing “why 100?”.)

Anyway, back to making puzzles. I need to make more to avoid leaving the blog dead…

Puzzles 41-42: Untruthful People

Puzzle 41: Liar Hidato. Follow regular Hidato rules (fill each white cell by a number between 1-66 inclusive so each number appears exactly once and consecutive numbers are adjacent (orthogonally or diagonally)). In addition, for every row/column that has at least a given, one of the givens is lying.

Puzzle 42: Liar Akari. Follow regular Akari rules (put some lamps which lit the entire unobstructed (by grid edges or black cells) paths to up+down+left+right of each so all squares are lit and no lamp lights another, and numbers on black cells represent the number of lamps orthogonally adjacent to the corresponding black cell). In addition, all givens are lying.

It has never been the case that people in Flygrass Town are lying en masse, but it never removes the possibility. Indeed, today is perhaps the “Lying Day” where people are basically lying all the time. Almost.

In the Allgreen Forest, guards are sometimes lying. Fortunately, no two lying guards can be in the same line of sight, as either will report the other and hell will break loose. But still, the visitors of the forest are confounded. After several reports, Sky decides to fix this by putting a correct traversal path. If he can.

Meanwhile, in the Art Museum, a blackout occurs. But it’s Lying Day, so no guard gives the correct response when they are queried about the number of lights they guard. Apparently they all conspired to answer zero? Whatever, Sky still gets to handle it.

Puzzle 41: Untruthful Forest Guards Liar Hidato

Puzzle 41: Untruthful Forest Guards
Liar Hidato

Puzzle 42: Untruthful Museum Guards Liar Akari

Puzzle 42: Untruthful Museum Guards
Liar Akari

Enjoy these very unusual Liar variations. It will probably be a long time before I get around these things again.

Why Liar Akari’s black squares are much lighter? I suspect that you will write the correct given for each cell…maybe. But it’s better to prepare too much than too little. If you want a version with darker black squares, just comment; I’ll provide one if there is enough interest (say, 2 people?).

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. Continue reading

Puzzle 12: Hidato

Hidato. Fill in a number in each white cell such that for any two consecutive numbers, they are orthogonally or diagonally adjacent. Probably a little harder than usual; numbers 1-80.

Puzzle 12: Hidato

Yay Hidato. Tried a new design trick here; see if you can find it. See that 1 and 80 are adjacent? We have a loop!