Deception Preview 1: Isolated Crowded Corners

Liar Slitherlink Draw a loop following the grid’s edges. A clue tells the number of edges of the square it’s contained in that belongs to the loop. In addition, every row and every column contains exactly one number that is false.

Answer key: Enter the lengths of the horizontal/vertical line segments in the row/column respectively. If there is a single 10-unit line segment or no line segment in the row/column, enter 0.

Difficulty 4.0/10 • Target times 02:00 04:00 10:00 30:00
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Deception Preview 1: Isolated Yet Crowded Corners
Liar Slitherlink

First preview puzzle. Not much to say besides that this is the first one made for Deception. If I recall correctly this one lies in the middle of the Liar Slitherlink puzzles in terms of solution times, but of course personal experiences differ.

Puzzle 40: Sky’s Revenge

Liar Slitherlink. Follow regular Slitherlink clues (make a loop following the gridlines that doesn’t touch/cross itself anywhere, and givens tell the number of sides used around that cell). However, exactly one given in each row/column is wrong. The task of determining which givens are lying is given to you.

It was a tough journey, but Sky made it to Odd Island. He was pretty surprised to see a few zeroes; perhaps the zeroes betrayed Even Island inhabitants? In any case, he managed to avoid suspicions, and in case someone attacked him (he’s #492, so yeah), he simply Seed Flared them away.

He made it to the prison that he suspects to hold many of the twos, and boy, what a surprise! No less than 86 twos are present. They sure kidnapped a lot of twos! He wanted to free them all from those pesky guards, but he surely could not Seed Flare those innocent twos. So he went with a very unusual approach…of Liar Slitherlink-ing them.

Wait… Isn’t Sky’s previous puzzle a Liar Slitherlink? Is Sky our hero? Hm…

Puzzle 40: Sky’s Revenge
Liar Slitherlink

Yes, MellowMelon-inspired. Although I don’t think he made that for the purpose of maximizing the number of 2s; mine started with a grid of 2s and givens got replaced when they don’t fit.

Also, if you’ve solved the grid, you may continue the story:

Sky’s bizarre strategy worked! Somehow. The guards were disoriented by being called liars and stuffs, and they all went arguing, allowing those twos to escape. They all went back, Sky was reunited with his lost two, and he could finally make another puzzle involving twos. Maybe next time…

Puzzle 39: Where Are My Twos?!

Liar Slitherlink. Follow regular Slitherlink clues (make a loop following the gridlines that doesn’t touch/cross itself anywhere, and givens tell the number of sides used around that cell). However, exactly one given in each row/column is wrong. The task of determining which givens are lying is given to you.

BREAKING NEWS: Leader of Flygrass Town lost his twos; police are looking at possible suspects
“It was all there when I went to sleep last night, but I found them missing this morning!” Sky cried.

That was two days ago. Now Sky has gotten over his loss, and he wants a revenge. “I’ll show them what I can do even without those 2s!” Sky adamantly proclaimed. After leaving this medium puzzle, he leaves to the Odd Island, the most probable suspect of where the 2s are kept hostage in.

Puzzle 39: Where Are My Twos?!
Liar Slitherlink

Yes, no 2 at all. Stay tuned for the second part (and also the final part) of Sky’s mini-adventure of reclaiming his 2s!

Puzzle 13: Tetromino Slitherlink

Tetromino Slitherlink. Follow usual rules of Slitherlink. In addition, the gray squares can be partitioned into tetrominoes such that in each tetromino, each number from 0-3 appears. Pretty hard because it’s first time. Well it’s first time; I can’t estimate its difficulty properly.

Puzzle 13: Tetromino Slitherlink

Yay. Okay the tetrominoes are obvious, but putting the numbers aren’t that obvious.

I can obviously imagine a version where the tetrominoes can be ambiguous. As long as the numbers (and hence the loop) are fixed, it doesn’t matter how the tetrominoes are divided. Or otherwise, without given numbers. The latter would be way more difficult actually, because I couldn’t think of an opening without a number. Time to ask someone good at making difficult puzzles.

Puzzle 2: Whirlpools

Jigsaw Slitherlink Follow Slitherlink rules: Draw a loop along the gridlines (only horizontal and vertical movements between the dots) such that the loop never touches or crosses itself. A number on a square indicates the number of edges of the square that are on the loop (not inside, on).

In addition, the board has been broken into pieces. Assemble the pieces before solving. The pieces cannot be rotated nor reflected.

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

Puzzle 2: Whirlpools
Jigsaw Slitherlink
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Original text of post
Yes I’m doing weird variations now. Shouldn’t be too hard with several forced clues actually, but well, it’s first attempt on Slitherlink Jigsaw.

Last updated 27 September 2013