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.
New genre! Regiothmetics Yajilin. I need a good name for “Regiothmetics”.
Follow usual Yajilin rules (draw a loop and shade all the remaining non-given cells black; black cells may not be adjacent). In addition, there are two types of clues:
– Blue, no sign, size-12: The number indicates the number of black cells in the region plus in the line of sight (from the arrow following the direction of the arrow up to the edge of the grid). Black cells that are in both the region and the line of sight are counted twice.
– Brown, sign (+ or -), size-10: The number indicates the number of black cells in the region minus in the line of sight (from the arrow following the direction of the arrow up to the edge of the grid). Black cells that are in both the region and the line of sight cancel each other.
Everybody! It’s the beginning of Regiothmetics class! To become a genius like me, do your best!
Our class begins, with a simple medium 7×7 puzzle,
If you’re done and you still want to be more genius like me, try this easy-medium 10×10 puzzle!
But wait! Did I just reverse the difficulty?
The answer is, the answer is, I didn’t, I didn’t, that’s because, that’s because,
The smaller is indeed the harder one!
Puzzle 34: Regiothmetics Class! Assignment 1!
Regiothmetics Yajilin
Puzzle 35: Regiothmetics Class! Assignment 2!
Regiothmetics Yajilin
UPDATE (20-Nov-2012, 18.36 UTC+7): Fixed Puzzle 34 (R7C1 to make it solvable) and replaced Puzzle 35 (the former is utterly broken).
If you are one of the top three, you get extra points!
But seriously. I offer this thing again. Be one of the first three people to submit the correct solutions to both grids, and you get a puzzle as a gift. You can choose the genre and stuffs like that.
Yes, even if you’re colorblind you should be able to distinguish non-signed givens and signed givens. And their sizes differ by 2 points. Should be sufficient. Although when I add more clue types (possible seeing recent Surveyors Heyawake) I need more non-color cues.
Yay. Did I say today (and yesterday) is one of my most productive blogging and puzzling days ever?
Surveyors Heyawake, now with additional two types of clues and a change in rules. Read.
Shade some cells black such that:
– No two black cells are orthogonally adjacent
– All white cells form a single polyomino
– No line of contiguous white cells span over 2 or more room borders (thick borders)
Additionally, there are two types of clues: in-grid and out-grid. (Names in brackets tell the name of the clues. Yes, they are now canonized.)
– In-grid clues may refer to the number of black squares in the room (region bordered by thick border) (Heyawake) or the number of black squares in the 3×3 square centered at the square containing the clue (Minesweeper). There can be at most 1 Heyawake clue in a region.
– Out-grid clues may refer to the number of black squares in the row/column (Tents) or the length of some line of maximum contiguous white cells in the row/column (Freedom). There can be at most 1 Tents clue in a row/column.
By maximum contiguous white cells I mean that it cannot be extended; it’s bounded by either the grid’s boundary or some black cell.
Note that it’s possible for a region to have clues but none of them are Heyawake, and for a row/column to have clues but none of them are Tents.
As the popularity of the surveyor job skyrockets, new positions appear. As reported in the headlines, two new positions that work from outside the complex are now available; one reports the number of obstructions in the line of sight and the other reports one of the freedoms instead. As usual, they mix together, making it pretty much impossible to tell them apart.
Your task stays the same. Our surveyors have done their jobs dutifully; now your task is to reveal the traps. Rated medium-hard.
Puzzle 32: Two New Recruits
Surveyors Heyawake v2
A gift for David Millar (thegriddle.net), as the second person to complete Puzzle 25 (linked above). He wanted Surveyors Heyawake with a new twist. I added several (depending on how you define a “twist”). Enjoy!
The next puzzle (okay, one of Puzzle 33-35) will be the gift to the third solver. Yes, Puzzle 25’s offer has ended. Time to make a new offer 😛
Surveyors Heyawake, also known as my favorite original genre (as of the time of post). Medium, a little bit toward hard.
Puzzle 25: Surveyors Heyawake
Apparently it’s not a small-grid puzzles batch!
Who says I can’t commemorate my 25th puzzle with something special? Antisymmetry, if you look closer (opposite givens add up to 5). The regions somewhat form a windmill, although that is not really intended. Weird regions, but I believe I don’t need to instate the “white contiguous region may not span over two boundaries” rule because it’s equivalent.
So… I’m running low on ideas. The first three people who e-mail me the correct solution to this puzzle may pick a genre, to be posted before Puzzle 40.
Because I don’t have a better name. Yajilin CoS, easy because it’s my first Yajilin CoS.
Inspired from Castle Wall’s givens’ meaning. Follow usual Yajilin rules, but now each given gives either the number of black cells or the number of loop segments in the pointed direction (may be both).
Puzzle 17: Yajilin… Cell or Segment?
Yay for all-1 clues. I think this genre can have many extraordinary tricks… Let’s see.
In case you haven’t noticed, there is a new Puzzle 16.
Surveyors Heyawake, 10×10. Should be rather easy.
Puzzle 8: Surveyors Heyawake
Hm things seem pretty easy. That’s what happened when I tried making a “normal” Heyawake with absolutely no symmetry. The 6×6 room is pretty fun to toy with though; think of it as a Minesweeper. Oops spoiler; but you don’t think that 11 is going to be a Minesweeper clue don’t you -_-
Hm, Surveyors Heyawake and Smullyanic Dynasty can make some great hybrid, due to both having Minesweeper clue-style. I’ll see how I can toy with it…but I need to try making a Smullyanic Dynasty first.
Second puzzle. After this, I (hopefully) return to the IMO 2012 series.
Number In Order. Rules:
– Enter an integer between 1 and x inclusive to each white square. x is a number that vary between puzzles. If you want to go technical, then x is defined as the longest white square run in the puzzle, but this also might be changed depending on the puzzle. So, just assume it’s given.
– Each “run” of white cells (consecutive white cells in the same row/column) must contain all different numbers, and the numbers must be consecutive (for example, 2,5,3,4 is okay, but 1,2,4,5 isn’t).
Yeah, I think that’s it.
Number In Order, 10×10, maximum number in puzzle is 6. Should be easy-medium.
Puzzle 7: Number In Order
Also do you notice that the black cells are exactly like in Puzzle 6? I wanted to go a little further (given a grid with all-filled white cells and some-filled black cells, solve the Akari using the black cells; the lightbulbs denote the squares which are given in Number In Order) but I failed. Well, these two separate puzzles are pretty good enough too.
Chaos at the Sky 