Broken Sign Blog
#084: Delightful Dice
28 February 2023
This is mostly just an appetiser for the next post. My submission to the Logic Showcase pretended to be just this collection of mini puzzles, with the actual puzzle hidden as a surprise in the congratulations message.
#083: Simple Loop (Kiki)
27 February 2023
I finally found a ruleset that is very simple (and reasonable), yet allows for extremely sparse grids with completely logical solve paths. You don’t need any bifurcation or lookaheads for this puzzle.
#082: Rail Pool (Forgetful) — "Sudoku"
19 February 2023
I participated in a speedsetting competition on the Cracking the Cryptic Discord server for the first time. The goal was to construct a Sudoku-themed puzzle that isn’t a Sudoku within an hour(ish). This puzzle ended up making second place!
#081: Mochikoro-Like Loop
16 February 2023
I’ve been experimenting with some new [Shading Genre]-Like Loop rulesets and found this one quite intriguing. It’s probably too restrictive to make a ton of varied puzzles with, but figuring out all of those restrictions in the first place makes for an interesting puzzle on its own, exhibited here with surprisingly low clue density.
#080: Remembered Length
13 February 2023
Have another Remembered Length! I don’t think this genre is going to get old any time soon. Discussion of this particular tilted square theme came up on Discord, and while I’ve used this exact layout before, I felt inspired to revisit it with a different genre.
#079: Ice Walk
2 February 2023
I couldn’t sleep last night and instead had an idea for some interesting Ice Walk deductions, which resulted in this puzzle.
#078: Guide Arrow
1 February 2023
Another fun new puzz.link addition. It seems that it’s very easy to doodle some nice puzzles in this genres, but I wanted to try and construct something around a specific logical theme.
#077: Remembered Length
27 January 2023
Puzz.link now supports Remembered Length, which I’m very happy about! However, my previous puzzles in the genre were either gimmicky or very hard, so I wanted to make an approachable one that doesn’t require any loop theory.
#076: Compass
21 January 2023
Coincidentally, here’s another puzzle in a genre I’ve come to appreciate thanks to Toketa Vol. 2. Someone on Discord posted a Compass-themed [some other genre] yesterday, and so I wanted to make a [some other genre]-themed Compass.
#075: Amoebas
17 January 2023
Amoebas was my favourite genre in Toketa Vol. 2 and now that I’m done with the book, I wanted to construct one myself. I’m really intrigued by the idea of time series puzzles in general. I’ve only seen a couple of other genres like this, and Amoebas seems to be the most interesting one of them.