AkashG23's Puzzle Locker

 Hello from uni Anyways, the next few puzzles are from a project that some of my IRL friends and I refer to as "Hunt 4." Creator's time: 2:01 Rules:  Normal 6×6 Sudoku rules DON'T apply.  Variant 1: Mean Mini \ Fill the grid with 6 of the digits from 1-9 such that each digit appears exactly six times, and no digit repeats within a row, column, or 2x3 box. Variant 2: Fog \ Some cells are hidden by "fog," meaning you cannot see their contents. Some fog may be removed when a digit is correctly filled. Digits can be logically deduced; no guessing is needed. Variant 3: Killer Cages \ The digits in a cage sum to the value in the top left. Digits cannot repeat in a cage. Difficulty :  7.0/14 Online interface (SudokuPad)

Maybe not taking the L with this puzzle. Creator's time: 18:26 Rules: Normal 9x9 Sudoku rules apply.  Variant: Thermos \ Digits must strictly increase along the thermometer starting from the bulb end. LMD link: https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000UG2 Difficulty : 8.0/14 Online interface (SudokuPad)

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 Square Jam Rules \  Divide the grid into square regions of orthogonally connected cells. A number indicates the side length of the square it’s in. Region borders may not form any four-way intersections. 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+)