Heyawake Fences:

This is a variation of Nikoli's Heyawake puzzle where numbered squares indicate how many edges of the square border a colored square (unlike normal Heyawake, where a number would only occur in the upper left corner of a box and indicate how many black squares were within the box).

The colored squares follow the rules of Heyawake: ( Read more... )

Railroad Ranches

A new railroad is coming to service the local ranches but of course, there's a few rules to follow:

1) The railroad must service all the ranches (whose boundaries are marked by thick black lines) in the region in one smooth loop.   The railroad is always one square wide and it must not touch a different section of itself diagonally ( ( Read more... )

OctaLink

This is a variation of the popular Nikoli puzzle Slitherlink.  The rules are basically the same but the layout is different.  Instead of the puzzle space being a grid of squares, the puzzle space in OctaLink is tessellated by octagons and squares.  Also, faint outlines of each shape are used here rather than vertex points in the regular ( Read more... )

Shores of Nurikabe

Here's yet another Nurikabe variation.  This time it has some elements of Slitherlink or Fences but since it doesn't follow all its rules I gave the variation this name (which will soon make sense).

Explanation

This a traditional Nurikabe puzzle but with additional "shore count" clues. The Nurikabe clues indicating island size are ( Read more... )