Perplexible

I realised I haven’t made a single vanilla Skyscrapers, so here’s one.

Rules:

• Fill the grid with numbers from 1 to 6 such that no number repeats within a row or column.
• The grid represents a top-down view of a city. A number in a cell represents a skyscraper of that height.
• A skyscraper blocks view of any shorter skyscrapers behind it.
• Looking from the clue’s direction, a clue tells the number of visible skyscrapers on its row/column.

Posted in Puzzle by ArDeeJ, 09/29/14 11:29 AM
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Keeping in line with this week’s theme on the GMPuzzles blog, here’s another pentomino-based puzzle. Compared to today’s State Park variant, this is probably the easier of the two.

As you may guess, it’s a hybrid of Statue Park and Creek.

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Rules:

• Shade some cells (60, to be exact) to form the 12 given pentominoes, rotations and reflections allowed.
• No two pentominoes may share an edge, but touching by corners is allowed.
• The unshaded cells must form a single, connected region.
• A clue tells how many of the four cells around it are shaded.

Posted in Puzzle by ArDeeJ, 09/20/14 11:12 AM
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Whoops, sorry for the break in posting. University and whatnot.

Here’s a LITS variant: every region has two tetrominoes, instead of one. Other puzzles of this type seem to not allow tetrominoes in the same region to touch each other, but that restriction isn’t at play here.

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Rules:

• Shade some cells to form two tetrominoes in each region.
• Two tetrominoes of the same shape may not share an edge.
• The shaded cells must also form a connected wall that contains no 2×2 squares of shaded cells.

Posted in LITS, Puzzle by ArDeeJ, 09/15/14 9:29 AM
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