AkashG23's Puzzle Locker

If I had to be honest, the absence of these might've been one of the reasons on why I haven't been posting on here. For a recap, these puzzle nights are hosted on  Deckardv 's puzzle server. I participated and placed...  10th  out of 27 participants, which was in the "blue" zone. (you can see my post on  Puzzle Night 3  to see the zone colors and placements). My goal was the "purple" zone, and I didn't achieve that goal... again, partially because of the lack of puzzle nights. This night had a few more common puzzle genres seen in these puzzle nights. Puzzle 1: Star Battle \ Time: 6:28 \ Placement: 11th The first puzzle was a moderate star battle (slightly harder than GAPP-level). A funny thing... my puzz.link UI was stuck in Japanese, but I still knew where most of the buttons were. I used quite a bit of bifurcation, though. Puzzle 2: Nurikabe \ Time: 1:51 \ Placement: 5th I only got this time because I used uniqueness in my solving process. 💀 That...

   Easy sloop Creator's time:  0:33 Rules:  Standard Simple Loop Rules \ Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all empty cells. Difficulty :  3/14 Online interface (puzz.link)

  As seen by some of my previous puzzles, I really like Look-Air. Here's another genre that involves shading square-shaped areas. Yes I know the tasquare tag already exists but that got renamed to look-air (no divide) Creator's time: 0:31 Rules:  Standard Tasquare Rules \ Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a square and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clued cells cannot be shaded, and represent the total size of the shaded squares that share an edge with the clue. If a clue has no number, it must share an edge with at least one shaded square. Difficulty :  3/14 Online interface (puzz.link)

 I made a few older puzzles while The 22 Major Look-Airna (25) was in development (for reasons that will be explained later), so I'll post them here. There will be about 10-15 of these older puzzles before I post some newer ones. Creator's time:  1:11 Rules:  Standard Uso-one Rules \ Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clued cells cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in the (up to) four cells surrounding the clue. However, exactly one clue in each region is incorrect. Difficulty :  4/14 Online interface (puzz.link)

 PUZZLE NIGHT SIX! PUZZLE NIGHT SIX! This event was hosted on  Deckardv 's puzzle server! Once again, I participated and placed...  8th  out of 16 participants, which was in the blue zone. (you can see my post on  Puzzle Night 3  to see the zone colors and placements). I wanted to get in the purple zone this time. I didn't get in the purple zone, but to be fair, I found this night to be the hardest so far. This night was themed on hybrids. Puzzle 1: Word Snakes + Star Battle \ Time: 15:16 \ Placement: 8th The first puzzle was a word snakes + star battle fusion. I was in the car for the first half of the solve (so I had to do the word snakes part on my phone). Then, I quickly transcribed the regions formed by the word snakes words into Penpa for the star battle portion when I arrived home. Puzzle 2: Masyu + Yajilin \ Time: 18:03 \ Placement: 8th The second puzzle was a Masyu and Yajilin hybrid. I got very stuck at first, but after a hint was given, I ha...

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted here! Anyways, last time I posted a puzzle, I mentioned that puzzle #25 here would be big. Well, here it is! It’s definitely my favorite and most ambitious project yet, but also my hardest. This puzzle has 22 Look-Air variants, including classic Look-Air. Rules and examples for each variant are on a Google Doc. Enjoy! The password to the ControlC link is 22variants  (highlight to view). Creator's time: 159:39.0 (2:39:39.0) Rules:   https://tinyurl.com/4s8fe8y5 LMD link:  https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000TQW Difficulty : 12/14 Online interface (Penpa+)