Last year's USPC left me with an empty feeling inside, and that showed in my follow-up puzzle. This year was a much more filling experience, a feeling I hope to share in this Fillomino puzzle ( Read more... )

Bonus puzzle this week, written many months ago when fellow puzzle blogger Grant Fikes announced a puzzle construction contest involving Fillomino (what he calls Polyominous) where the goal was to make a 10x10 puzzle with exactly 36 symmetric clues, specifically four each of the digits 1 to 9. As much as I usually dislike puzzle construction ( Read more... )

I don't know where the first root of the big "milestone puzzle" tree started, but as I've seen others do on their sites, here is a big puzzle for my big day. I think it puzzle speaks for itself: "So here is another motris milestone: completing 100 total blog entries."

You may find this pdf version of the puzzle more friendly for solving. Please ( Read more... )

For New Year's Eve, I've written a 20 by 11 Fillomino with a "Countdown" theme. I promise, unlike last year where I wrote over a dozen 2010-themed puzzles, that I won't write any more 20x11 or 2011 puzzles over the next several weeks. Happy puzzling ( Read more... )

We had a few goals when constructing the recent BANG 23, but the major one was to introduce good logic puzzle types (mainly Nikoli puzzles) to puzzle hunters that might never have seen them before. The natural fit we found was to incorporate the logic puzzles with the map, used throughout the day to figure out where to go next. So, I wrote 8 " ( Read more... )

Battleships was the first puzzle that ever caught my interest, many, many years ago, and even after most of the novelty of the stand-alone puzzle has been lost, I have enjoyed exploring the combination of this type with other puzzles. My patented gimmick of numbering the ship segments allows for easy combinations with various number puzzles, and I ( Read more... )