Broken Sign Blog
#129: Foggy Twilight Kurotto
27 November 2023
After making the Twilight Kurotto for Black-out Friday, I figured these rules would also make for an interesting fog-of-war puzzle. You’ll have to solve this one in Penpa.
#128: Twilight Kurotto for Black-Out Friday
24 November 2023
The Griddle has organised another pack of shading puzzles for Black(-Out) Friday. Last year, I made a Twilight Cave, so this year I wanted to explore a Twilight variant for a different genre. Check out the full PDF over on The Griddle, with many more excellent shading puzzles.
#127: Hexagonal Compass
21 November 2023
I’m a little surprised that I haven’t seen Compass done on a hex grid before.
#126: Rail Pool / Masyu
6 November 2023
This was originally going to be a co-op puzzle for two solvers. But after I had finished the puzzle, I realised that it would work much better as a hybrid puzzle for a single solver.
#125: S-Policy — "I of the Cyclops"
3 November 2023
Unsurprisingly, I’m not the first to come up with this theme but I’m very happy with how clean both theme and solve path turned out. The “X” is… uh… a specular reflection off the eyeball. Or dirt.
#124: Chocolate Pentominana
30 October 2023
I had the idea for this Choco Banana variant a couple of months ago, but only just got around to trying it out. The rules are probably a bit too strong and could maybe do without the diagonal adjacency part, but sometimes it’s fun to solve a puzzle that mostly flows from a genre’s “passive” rules instead of clues.
#123: Subomino
30 September 2023
Subomino is a Fillomino variant that was invented last year by Japanese Twitter user @homerestaurant3 (to the best of my knowledge). I randomly remembered its existence today and decided to try and construct a puzzle. It’s quite tough, but the logic along the solve path has some nice variety.
#122: Aqre
21 September 2023
A completely normal puzzle, who would’ve thought. I felt like making a bigger and fairly flowy puzzle and Aqre seemed like a fun genre for that. Due to my chosen theme I still ended up with some stickier points in the solve path, but there shouldn’t be anything unreasonable.
#121: Wittgenstein Cave
21 September 2023
Another genre hybrid. Wittgenstein Briquet, also known as Desk Place, was recently added to puzz.link. I really like the genre, and it got me wondering about potential variants.
#120: Ring Pool
21 September 2023
I made this one for a speed setting contest on the CtC Discord server. The prompt was to make a hybrid of any two genres, and the idea of combining Rail Pool and Ring-Ring had been on my todo list for a long time.