In just a few days, on May 26, I will hold a drawing to see who wins a copy of Battle of LITS! If you have a BoardGameGeek account, tip some GeekGold to earn some raffle entries and potentially win! The tips have reached 300 GeekGold, so here's a puzzle! Will they reach 400, 500, 600, or even 676 in such a short period of time? I doubt it, but you could always surprise me.
Showing posts with label Quad-Wrangle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quad-Wrangle. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Friday, November 30, 2012
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Monday Mutant 105: Polyominous / Quad-Wrangle
Posted by Unknown on 8:17 AM with No comments
In this Polyominous puzzle, every region must be shaped like a rectangle. (Thus, the puzzle is similar to a Quad-Wrangle puzzle, but without the restriction that every region must contain exactly one number, and with the restriction that regions with the same area may not share an edge.) The rules are otherwise unchanged.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
March Mutant 16: Polyominous / Quad-Wrangle (non-consecutive)
Posted by Unknown on 5:51 AM with No comments
In this Polyominous puzzle, every region must be shaped like a rectangle. (Thus, the puzzle is similar to a Quad-Wrangle puzzle, but without the restriction that every region must contain exactly one number, and with the restriction that regions with the same area may not share an edge.) Additionally, no two horizontally or vertically adjacent cells may contain two consecutive numbers.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
March Mutant 8: Polyominous / Quad-Wrangle (cipher)
Posted by Unknown on 6:00 AM with No comments
In this Polyominous puzzle, every region must be shaped like a rectangle. (Thus, the puzzle is similar to a Quad-Wrangle puzzle, but without the restriction that every region must contain exactly one number, and with the restriction that regions with the same area may not share an edge.) Additionally, the given numbers have been replaced by letters; all instances of a particular letter represent the same number, but two different letters must represent different numbers.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
March Mutant 7: Polyominous / Quad-Wrangle
Posted by Unknown on 6:00 AM with No comments
In this Polyominous puzzle, every region must be shaped like a rectangle. (Thus, the puzzle is similar to a Quad-Wrangle puzzle, but without the restriction that every region must contain exactly one number, and with the restriction that regions with the same area may not share an edge.) The rules are otherwise unchanged.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Puzzle 528: Quad-Wrangle 24
Posted by Unknown on 3:28 AM with No comments
Remember when I said "Hopefully I'll have more to say about my next 31x45 puzzle"? Well, I do!
This puzzle is devoted to groza528, a longtime fan and online brother in Christ who has encouraged me in so, so many ways – not the least of which was his decision to support me financially in the LiveJournal era of my logicsmithing "career", back when I decided to experimentally charge for access to my next 100 puzzles. groza528 actually sent me a check for four times what I was asking for, requesting access to the next 200 puzzles for himself and for a friend! I remain touched by this simple gesture of paying me money. Thank you so much, groza528.
This puzzle is devoted to groza528, a longtime fan and online brother in Christ who has encouraged me in so, so many ways – not the least of which was his decision to support me financially in the LiveJournal era of my logicsmithing "career", back when I decided to experimentally charge for access to my next 100 puzzles. groza528 actually sent me a check for four times what I was asking for, requesting access to the next 200 puzzles for himself and for a friend! I remain touched by this simple gesture of paying me money. Thank you so much, groza528.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Monday Mutant 88: Quad-Wrangle / Battleships
Posted by Unknown on 6:00 AM with No comments
Ten ships (as indicated below the grid: one four-cell ship, two three-cell ships, three two-cell ships, and four one-cell ships) are hidden in the grid. The ships may be rotated from the orientations shown, but may not overlap or occupy cells which share a corner or an edge. The cells which do not contain ships must be divided into rectangles according to the rules of Quad-Wrangle.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday Mutant 87: Polyominous / Quad-Wrangle
Posted by Unknown on 12:08 PM with No comments
In this Polyominous puzzle, every region must be shaped like a rectangle. (Thus, the puzzle is similar to a Quad-Wrangle puzzle, but without the restriction that every region must contain exactly one number, and with the restriction that regions with the same area may not share an edge.) The rules are otherwise unchanged.
Better late than never.
Better late than never.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Monday Mutant 81: Polyominous / Quad-Wrangle
Posted by Unknown on 6:00 AM with No comments
In this Polyominous puzzle, every region must be shaped like a rectangle. (Thus, the puzzle is similar to a Quad-Wrangle puzzle, but without the restriction that every region must contain exactly one number, and with the restriction that regions with the same area may not share an edge.) The rules are otherwise unchanged.
I constructed three Shikaku Fillomino puzzles for Fillomino-Fillia, of which this puzzle was considered by me to be the median in difficulty level. I didn't think it was possible to make a Shikaku Fillomino much harder than this one; MellowMelon proved me to be dreadfully wrong, and my hardest puzzle was relegated to being a preview as a result.
I constructed three Shikaku Fillomino puzzles for Fillomino-Fillia, of which this puzzle was considered by me to be the median in difficulty level. I didn't think it was possible to make a Shikaku Fillomino much harder than this one; MellowMelon proved me to be dreadfully wrong, and my hardest puzzle was relegated to being a preview as a result.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Fillomino-Fillia Preview Series: Shikaku Fillomino
Posted by Unknown on 9:00 AM with No comments
This is a Shikaku Fillomino (AKA Polyominous). In addition to the usual rules, every polyomino must be shaped like a rectangle.
Answer entry: Enter the units digits of each square in the marked rows and columns, from left to right for rows and from top to bottom for columns.
Highlight to see the answer: 1545342144 2212444444
Answer entry: Enter the units digits of each square in the marked rows and columns, from left to right for rows and from top to bottom for columns.
Highlight to see the answer: 1545342144 2212444444
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Puzzle 490: Quad-Wrangle 20
Posted by Unknown on 1:13 PM with No comments
After you're done wrangling these quadrangles (or before, if you wish), check out this quad-run of the first four Super Mario Bros. games (including the game known as Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan and The Lost Levels elsewhere). This quad-run aims to beat all four games using the exact same series of button presses. As a tool-assisted run, this series of button presses was not achieved by a person playing the game in real time as the games were meant to be played, but through the use of emulators with savestates, slowdown, frame advance, and other tools; see this topic for more information before crying "hax!" or "cheater!".
Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday Mutant 70: The Inner Limits / Quad-Wrangle (cipher)
Posted by Unknown on 9:48 AM with No comments
In the The Inner Limits puzzle on the left and in the Quad-Wrangle puzzle on the right, the given numbers have been replaced by letters; all instances of a particular letter represent the same number, but two different letters must represent different numbers. (This applies whether the letters are in the same grid or not.) The rules are otherwise unchanged.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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