Perplexible

Here is a new Slitherlink puzzle for you to try. This puzzle is based on Floret Pentagonal Tiling, which was suggested to me by Danny Sichel. The additional clue styles (ampersand and dollar sign) were inspired by David Millar’s excellent “Area 51″ puzzles, which you’ll find at The Griddle. If you like this puzzle, you can download six of them here.

Fill in some of the dotted line segments to form a meandering path that forms a single loop. The path does not cross itself, branch, or touch itself at corners. The numbers indicate how many line segments surround each cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of line segments.

A dollar sign ($) indicates the cell is inside the loop. An ampersand (&) indicates the cell is outside the loop.

There is one unique solution, and you should be able to find it without guessing. You may find it helpful to mark segments that cannot be filled in.

Posted in Puzzle, Slitherlink by krazydad, 04/14/12 5:45 PM
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Unlike the others here, I am not a prolific puzzle author… or a speed solver… or even an expert solver.  However, like the other authors here, I love puzzles.

My current favourite puzzle types are slitherlink, masyu, and other loop type puzzles… and their variants. (Yes, I spelled favourite that way intentionally – I am Australian).  In addition to posting up some puzzles for you to solve, I also intend to put up some tutorials aimed at pure beginners.

I planned to do a slitherlink tutorial, but there are a number of good ones out there already (particularly the Conceptis one), so felt there was no need to reinvent the wheel.  Instead, you can practice those techniques on the below puzzle: (Easy possibly tending towards Medium)

Posted in Puzzle, Slitherlink by reesylou, 02/8/12 4:55 AM
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This is my first upload here. To begin with its a medium level Diagonal Sudoku. Hopefully soon we might see some different and interesting variants too.

Posted in Puzzle, Sudoku by rishipuri, 01/31/12 6:20 PM
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Hi Folks,

This is my first contribution to Perplexibles. I’m calling this a “Septigon Slitherlink”. This is 7-fold variation of the Snowflake Slitherlinks, one of many unusual Slitherlinks that you can find on my puzzle site, Krazydad.

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Posted in Puzzle, Slitherlink by krazydad, 01/31/12 3:17 PM
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Jim of KrazyDad.com fame suggested I kick off this blog with an inaugural post to set some sort of direction for it. What I envisioned is being able to provide a venue for established puzzle authors and occasional authors or newcomers to mix it up and just have a place to post puzzles and share them with an audience. That’s what I wanted when I started The Griddle 6 years ago, when a friend helped me get hosting and start fleshing out the site with content and code so that I could share the puzzles I’d made for friends, classmates, and teachers with a whole new audience.

So I guess that’s where I’m coming from as far as the spirit of the blog. As far as actual content and style, I envisioned something more like what Thomas Snyder, Palmer Mebane, and Grant Fikes do, with straight up puzzles, and maybe a bit of editorial commentary here and there. In fact, this puzzle is inspired by puzzle variations seen in motris’s blog, as well as a hybrid type I’ve posted on The Griddle and in Sudoku Xtra in the past. It’s a 6/9 Flip Slithery Sum Sudoku, which is a mouthful.

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Posted in Puzzle, Slitherlink, Sudoku, Sum Sudoku by David Millar, 01/30/12 10:55 PM
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Welcome to Perplexible! Perplexible is a community puzzle blog designed to let a variety of puzzle authors from around the world share their puzzles. These authors can range from experienced puzzle bloggers extending or moving their user bases here, to new puzzle bloggers starting to post their work for the first time, to the occasional puzzle author that might not have a need for a steady blog but still has puzzles to share.

If you’re interested in contributing on Perplexible, drop the curator a line at dave@perplexible.com.

Posted in News by David Millar, 01/17/12 1:28 AM
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