This is a Yajilin puzzle.
Puzzle 321
I feel obliged to point out something I found in my referral list recently:
http://pronter.tumblr.com/
. It looks to be a digest of posts from several puzzle sites, a lot of which I (and probably many of you) already knew about. But new to me were some posts from Japanese puzzle blogs which seem to mostly post Heyawake puzzles, and they are both quite hard and extremely nice. Worth a look if that piques your interest.
Around the time of this posting, LMI is no longer accepting score submissions for the contest. Below is a link to the puzzle booklet, the same as the one on LMI without the password. There is also a PDF that has all of the puzzles on the test together with their solutions (don’t open if you don’t want to see them yet!), as well as some brief comments from myself about the puzzles. Mostly I pointed out the tricky innovative logic the puzzle had, if any — and for the adults there almost always was some.
This is a Yajilin / Akari hybrid puzzle.
Puzzle 291
Answer Entry: Enter the digits corresponding to the total number of lightbulbs in each row from top to bottom.
Highlight to see answer: 1121221211
This is a Yajilin puzzle, with a twist. Black squares are no longer confined to a single cell, but may span any square area of cells. There may be no black rectangles of different side lengths, and no two separate squares may be adjacent. The numbers indicate the total number of black spaces pointed to (not the total amount of distinct black squares). The closed loop behaves as it did in Yajilin.
Puzzle 280
This is a Yajilin puzzle.
Puzzle 276
I don’t think I’ve posted something genuinely easy on this blog for a long time…
(Also, I seem to have messed up the publishing date, so this post went up for a few seconds several hours too early. Sorry if that messed up any alerts/subscriptions.)
This is a Yajilin puzzle.
Puzzle 254
This is a Monday Indirect Yajilin puzzle.
Puzzle 229
This is a Thursday Indirect Yajilin puzzle.
Puzzle 190
