AkashG23's Puzzle Locker

This genre has a nice name. Creator's time: 1:38.0 Rules: Standard Landvermessung Rules \ Shade some cells such that no closed loops exist among the shaded cells (not even a 2x2). A clue indicates the number of cells in the shortest path of shaded cells that visits all of those touched by the clue. An infinity (∞) clue indicates that no such path exists. Difficulty : 5.5/14 Online interface (Penpa+)

   This puzzle was inspired by the Geometry Dash level LIMEADE by AudieoVisual. And yes, the difficulty can do that. But I'll just round down for tag purposes. Creator's time: 13:58 Rules:  Normal 9x9 Sudoku rules apply.  Variant: Lemons \ Digits around the edge of a lime or lemon must sum to the total given in the two-digit number in the center of the lime or lemon (read left-to-right or top-to-bottom); digits may repeat on the same shape if allowed by other rules. LMD link:  https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000UF9 Difficulty : 8.5/14 Online interface (SudokuPad)

  You might remember  Mysterious Pink Lines (15) , which was a variant KenKen with Renban lines. This KenKen actually has fewer  lines than a standard KenKen --- if you think cage borders are lines. And this puzzle was d4 for the LONGEST time (since like mid-late 2024) until I decided to bump it up to d5 in mid August of 2026. Creator's time: 1:45.9 Rules:  Standard KenKen/TomTom Rules \ Place a number from 1 to N in each cell, where N represents the side length of the grid. You can’t repeat any numbers in the same row/column. The heavy lines indicate cages that contain groups of numbers that can be combined (in any order) to produce the target number shown in the cage, with the indicated operation. Variant: Builder \ Draw borders to form "cages" on the grid such that each clue is on the leftmost cell of the uppermost row of each cage. All cages have exactly one clue. Cages containing a clue without an operator (ex. 2) must span exactly 1 cell, and cages containing a...

 This square jam is a quick one. I recall setting this sometime around the time I was setting Card VII of  The 22 Major Look-Airna (25) . Creator's time: 0:30 Rules: Standard Araf Rules \ Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must contain exactly two circles and have an area that lies between the two numbers in the circles, exclusive. Difficulty : 2/14 Online interface (puzz.link)

Here's another oldie. Creator's time: 1:59 Rules: Standard Araf Rules \ Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must contain exactly two circles and have an area that lies between the two numbers in the circles, exclusive. Difficulty : 4/14 Online interface (Penpa+)

Catching up with some old puzzles... This puzzle uses a few variants from  The 22 Major Look-Airna (25) , with some of them using old names. Creator's time: 2:41.8 Rules: Standard Look-Air Rules \  Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a square. Clues represent how many of the five cells forming a cross around the clue (including itself) are shaded. Two shaded squares of the same size may not have a vertical or horizontal line of unshaded cells between them, unobstructed. Variant 1: Minesweeper \ Clues inside the grid containing just one number represent how many of the nine cells in the 3x3 area centered at the clue (including itself) are shaded. (Referred to as "3x3" within the puzzle, b/c this was made before T22MLA was finished lol) Variant 2: Easy As \ Clues outside the grid containing just one number represent the side length of the first shaded square seen in the corresponding row or column from the direction o...