#122: Aqre

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

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

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.

#119: Cogs — "Pocket Watch"

Shye rediscovered the genre Cogs the other day and made a great puzzle in it. It’s an interesting genre and I couldn’t resist the urge to make something cursed.

#118: Cross the Streams (Twilight)

This was my second entry to Logic Showcase #49 on Puzzlers Club, “Twilight Sparkle”. Shortly before the deadline, I had a really cursed idea and wanted to see if I could apply the Twilight variant to a genre where the clues are normally not even part of the grid.

#117: Aqre (Twilight)

This was my first entry to Logic Showcase #49 on Puzzlers Club, “Twilight Sparkle”. The prompt was to set variant puzzles where shaded (or otherwise covered) clues behave differently from unshaded clues. The idea of Twilight Aqre had been on my to-do list since the Twilight Cave I made for last year’s Black-Out Friday.

#116: Water Walk

My little Ice Walk derivative has been implemented on puzz.link! You can now find a few more puzzles using these rules over on Puzzle Square, including a neat little Ice Walk doppel I posted to introduce the genre.

#115: World Puzzle Championship 2022

Last year, I had the honour to provide a number of puzzles to the World Puzzle Championship, held in Krakow, Poland, that year. There’s an embargo on those puzzles where only the WPF may publish them, but that has expired by now, so I can finally share them here as well. There’ll be a bit of a wall of text while I talk about the individual puzzles, so scroll down for a whole bunch of solving fun.

#114: Lohkous vs. Rail Pool vs. Tapa-Like Loop

This was my entry to Logic Showcase #47 on Puzzlers Club, “Mixed Signals”. The prompt was to make mashups of genres with the same clue type, where the solver has to determine which genre each clue belongs to. The puzzle won the showcase, though only by tie-breaker.

#113: Chocolate Evolminana

This puzzle was inspired by a variant of my favourite recent genre. Choco Banana and Evolmino go together surprisingly well, and I think there’s probably a lot more you can do with it.