Posts from date 2025-3:
Dungeon map in puzzle collection
Posted on 2025-03-25 02:03
Ok, the newest puzzle type is now in the collection! Also Pedro kindly added Elastic loop to the Kudamono editor and X_Sheep made an editor for T-junction, so that's a bunch of fun news on the paper puzzle stuff!
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Dungeon map
Posted on 2025-03-23 13:18
This keeps happening. Oh well! This type is a bit curious but I like it in any case. Thanks to Chaotic_iak for suggestions and ideas on the design of the checkerboard clue! The usual 3 puzzles:
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More paper puzzle news!
Posted on 2025-03-18 17:20
As mentioned in the previous post, I noticed there being a bunch of paper puzzle types that I abandoned or never finished, and lately I've been inspired to take a closer look to some of those. Part of this probably stems from the desire to make a proper entry for LITSalike in the paper puzzle collection. That has now been done, and the revisits to old stuff have given me enough material to put out part V of my paper puzzle collection!
Here're the types I've added since T-junction:
LITSalike
The name doesn't make much sense, since in its current form this type doesn't really have much of anything to do with LITS. Also the example puzzle isn't unique, because I simplified the ruleset slightly (based on suggestions from others, IIRC). As mentioned earlier, I included this type in the collection PDF despite all the puzzles for it being made using the old ruleset, but this has now been rectified.
Skatesweeper
I think this was suggested by people on the Baba Is You fan Discord. In addition to the basic rules of Skating, the numbers indicate the amount of Xs in the 8 cells around the numbers; there are no unclued Xs. The number cells may not be shaded or have Xs on them, but the loop must go through them.
Sillytapa
This type follows otherwise the normal rules of Tapa, but the clue cells are regions instead. The positioning of the numbers within each region doesn't matter; treat all numbers within each region as if they were normal Tapa clues for all cells orthogonally & diagonally adjacent to the regions they're in.
Legalese
This type was borne out of an idea to try to recreate an unintelligible signature scribble in paper puzzle form. I wasn't too happy with the end result, but Pedro implemented it in the Kudamono puzzle editor, and that made me want to make a couple new puzzles for the type to make it feel more complete.
Kakugram
Finally, here's Kakugram. I had made a puzzle with the same basic idea, titled "Ohnogram", in late 2020, and decided to revisit the concept. The final ruleset took some ideas from Kakuro, and I was told that this type is almost identical to Japanese Sums; there's a tiny difference that might be neat, though.
Welp, that was a lot. Sorry!
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Adjustments to the Paper Puzzle Collection
Posted on 2025-03-13 00:17
I thought it was about time that I divide the paper puzzle collection PDF into multiple smaller collections; I have nearly 50 paper puzzle types around and the collection was already getting overly long. I decided to make 4 sub-collections with 12 types each, and they're now available on the usual game page.
Check out the new sub-collections here
While doing this work, I also refined the overall collection slightly:
- Multitapa, a slightly janky type from last autumn, is now included
- Limited Alike & Celltinels have the World Puzzle Championship puzzles listed
- Forceloop has a couple extra puzzles that I didn't list previously for whatever reason
- Elastic loop & T-junction are now included, and I updated the visuals of Elastic loop based on a suggestion from X_Sheep. Thanks!
- For the types that have been implemented either in puzz.link, Puzzle Square or Pedro's Kudamono editor, I've now listed links to those implementations. Huge thanks to X_Sheep and Pedro for said implementations!
- All types now have a month listed alongside the year they were invented
While doing this, I noted that the LITSalike type still has no puzzles listed for it; I should finally take a look at this and see if they could be included or if I should just take the type out entirely. I also noticed a couple puzzle images that aren't in the collection; I suspect some/most of them aren't in there for a good reason, but I want to take a proper look in case there's a neat puzzle somewhere that could be included.
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T-junction
Posted on 2025-03-10 14:17
Hey, another one! I had posted a version of this earlier on a Discord server, and seeing it again made me want to polish it for proper "release". Elastic loop seems to have garnered more positive comments overall, but I do think T-junction offers some fun too.
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Elastic loop
Posted on 2025-03-07 14:50
Hey, long time without paper puzzles! I spent a bunch of time trying out a bunch of ideas that didn't really go anywhere, but this one seemed to strike a chord with people who tried it out so I thought I'd finalize it (to the extent that I usually "finalize" these, i.e. create 3 puzzles and create a rules explanation image). I do have another genre that's technically ready, but it seemed to be too complicated so we'll see where I'll go with it.
(Had to fix some issues with this one; thanks to people at the ThinkyGames Discord server for testing!)
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