Sadly, I couldn’t make arrangements to attend the World Puzzle Championship this year. But I still wrote a few practice puzzles for the German team, which I’m sharing here.
I made the first puzzle in this set for a speed setting contest on the CtC server (and won!). After seeing how strong the ruleset is, I wanted to try and make a big and really empty puzzle which led to the third puzzle in the set. And finally I wanted to round out the set with a puzzle where clues were doing a bit more work in the centre of the grid.
This puzzle is based on a (maybe not entirely serious) suggestion by user glum_hippo on the Cracking the Cryptic server.
I made a puzzle for this month’s prompt on the Cracking the Cryptic Discord server. The Halloween-inspired prompt was “Shady Tricks”, so I made a perfectly normal Chocona.
I made some puzzles for the Indian Puzzle Championship again!
In an unexpected turns of events, I made a Sudoku in about an hour for a speed setting competition on the CtC server and even managed to get second place. Of course, I couldn’t help but make it a hybrid with my favourite genre.
In the GAPP (Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzle) series on the CtC Discord server, we have a bit of a tradition called Strange-Shaped Sunday where we tend to post puzzles on non-square grids. For a recent Sunday puzzle, I stumbled upon the idea of trying out Snake on a triangular grid and it worked out so well that I decided to make a few more puzzles for this ruleset.
A while ago, fellow puzzler dohz and I made a pair of puzzles, each exploring differing interpretations of a hybrid between Statue Park and Territory (that is, Naoki Inaba’s Territory, since many genres share that name). You can find dohz’s puzzle on Cohost, and mine can be seen below.
This puzzle was constructed in collaboration with Wessel Strijkstra by passing the puzzle back and forth, adding one clue at a time.