Perplexible

Welp. I was going to call this one Mystery Tapa but then I saw GMPuzzles’ Sunday Surprise posted yesterday. What a coincidence. I started making this one last Thursday, before knowing anything about any upcoming Sunday Surprises anywhere.

Rules:

• Regular Tapa rules apply.
• Question marks represent nonzero integers.
• Asterisks are wildcards: they represent a nonzero amount of question marks.
• No clue may appear multiple times, hence the name.

Gah, this puzzle took a lot of wrangling to make it work. I gave up on having a symmetric clue pattern.

Posted in Puzzle by ArDeeJ, 09/23/13 4:30 AM
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I think this might be my first entirely vanilla puzzle.  About time I made one instead of all the variants and hybrids.

It’s a Clouds aka Rain Clouds aka Radar puzzle. Oddly enough, I didn’t find any satisfactory sites explaining the rules.

Rules:

• Shade some cells to form rectangular clouds. The clouds don’t touch each other, even by corners.
• The numbers tell the amount of shaded cells in that row/column.
• A cloud must be at least two cells tall and wide: no 1×n or n×1 clouds allowed.

I find Clouds puzzles to be pretty hard, so I’m going to call this one pretty hard. Plus or minus a few arbitrary units of difficulty. *shrugs*

Posted in Puzzle by ArDeeJ, 09/22/13 11:33 AM
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This puzzle is probably on its 20th layout iteration, but I’m finally happy with the it. In the end I used less repeating adjacent clues than I intended, but at least I managed to get symmetrical clue placement.

Rules:

• Each clue is either a Skyscrapers clue, telling the number of skyscrapers it sees
• or an Easy As ABC clue, telling the first number it sees
• but not both.

Posted in Puzzle by ArDeeJ, 09/11/13 8:27 AM
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