I’m not really satisfied with the execution, but eh, what the hell.
My brain can only function at so much of its full capacity when it’s a
few kilometers up in the sky.
This is a
Triple
Back, variant on
MellowMelon’s
Double Back. Briefly, draw a closed loop through all square centers
visiting each bold-outlined area exactly three (= ⌊π⌋) times. Shaded
cells do not influence solving, only aesthetics.
A Signature Puzzle: Trying to solve the puzzle with Extreme Speed can’t hurt. Anticron: This puzzle runs on two distinct 24-hour clocks, which is why you can be zoned out for half the time and still solve it. When Is My Birthday Again?: Apparently, if you don’t want to tell your friends your birthday, you can tell one of them the month and the other the day. And if you really want to annoy them, you can change one of the days at the end so they have to work it out again.
And that’s another year!
As usual, you can check
your answers here. Text above this horizontal rule is not part of
the puzzle.
Solvers:
- Yoshiap @ 11-20 13:31:56
As usual, you can check
your answers here. Text above this horizontal rule is not part of
the puzzle.
Solvers (in my local UTC−5 because I’m lazy):
- Lewis Chen (phenomist) @ 11-19 05:03:07
- Jack Lance @ 11-19 10:39:11
- Yoshiap @ 11-20 03:29:54
Unfortunately, I did not get this successfully testsolved, although,
for whatever comfort it may provide, I did engage in several interactive
rounds of nerfing it.
As usual, you can check
your answers here. Text above this horizontal rule is not part of
the puzzle.
Solvers:
As usual, there had to be something here. In fact, this year, there
are several somethings. Hype!
This is based on an idea by chaotic_iak.
You can check your answers
here. Text above this horizontal rule is not part of the puzzle.
ETA 11/17 16:15 UTC−5: Adjusted spacing between the bottom numbers after
feedback. The puzzle is otherwise the same, and solving should not be
significantly impacted.
Solvers (in my local UTC−5 because I’m lazy):
- Yoshiap @ 11-17 18:28:34
At least one person wants me to post. I’m not even going to try do a
life summary. It’s too hard. Let’s just say:
-
right now, my blog drafts contain a backlog of ~7500 words and counting;
-
I was not accepted as an MIT Admissions blogger, which is bad because my
blogging will continue to not reach a large audience, but good because
my blogging will continue to not reach a large audience. Maybe it had
something to do with the fact that, because the application form
wouldn’t let me submit without any media, I panickedly cranked out the
following puzzle in an hour or so to attach.
Wow, there are so many cool things in my old folder. I could probably
create and schedule enough filler posts to make my
streak last through my week-long
trip and back. I guess I won’t, though, because I don’t want to dilute
my textwall-draft brand more than necessary and there are a few text
posts that I fully intend to post before leaving. Or at least one.
Although on second thought, it’s possible they might actually not be as
interesting as posts like this one about the adorable me from the past.
As Pablo Picasso once said, “Youth has no age.” (Yes, I totally just
went on BrainyQuote and searched for “youth”. Forgive me, please.) Oh
well.
Today’s throwback theme is old puzzles! Particularly picture ones! In
reverse chronological order by last modified time, because I said so!
All the image puzzles are puzzlehunty in the sense that you’re supposed
to end up with a single word or short phrase as your final answer.
art/hidd3n/p06pre2.png
(2010/10/31)
A straightforward one to start. I have no idea what’s with the filename,
though.
haxxor/purity2/logic.html
(2010/10/10?)
My file hierarchy is really weird. I don’t think this time stamp is
when I wrote the puzzle because it was part of a silly static site setup
I created (but never actually put anywhere), and I probably edited and
regenerated stuff like the breadcrumbs many times, but it’ll have to
do.
This is also funny because the title of the HTML file is “Logic
Puzzles” and the description starts, “These puzzles were made when I was
really bored…”, but there’s only one puzzle.
Well, it’s better than an under construction page, I guess.
I’ll quote the entirety of the old instructions as I wrote them, even
though they’re really verbose, since it’s easy to scroll past them:
CLICKBAIT PERSONALITY TEST THAT YOU CAN DO WITHOUT SOLVING THE
PUZZLE: What do you see in the puzzle image below? I have my own
thoughts but I won’t bias you by posting them yet. Sound out your
thoughts in the comments below! (I don’t expect this to work but I’d
love to be proven wrong)
Okay so apparently how puzzles work is I go nearly a year without
posting one and then when I post a terrible one, I feel guilty and
obligated to post a legitimate one soon after. Testsolved by
chaotic_iak.
This is a Fillomino (write a number in every empty cell so that every
group of cells with the same number that is connected through its edges
has that number of cells) where each tetromino has had their 4s replaced
by one of L, I, T, or S describing their shape, and they obey the rules
of LITS — they can touch if they are not congruent, they must all be
connected, and their squares cannot form a 2×2 block. In addition, cells
separated by a thick border may not contain the same number or
letter.
5:27 PM phenomist: do you use gridderface to make
pretty puzzles?
…
5:52 PM phenomist: actually nvm excel is probably
easier lol
Okay I’m sorry this is a horrible puzzle where the rules don’t make
sense and I didn’t even get it testsolved. I just wanted an image to
concisely demonstrate the capabilities of
gridderface, my
puzzle marking and creation program, for the project homepage, after
somebody expressed interest in using the program to write a puzzle. Then
I got tremendously carried away.