This is part 9 of a "Better Know the USPC" preview series. The United States Puzzle Championship is scheduled for August 27th, 1PM EDT.

Type: Loop puzzles (specifically Masyu and Slitherlink)

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Two intermediate difficulty puzzles this week, both originally written for the Turkish Puzzle Championship (TBT) test as about 5 minute puzzles. Both are also indicative of what my next puzzle project will look like, with classic puzzles but different kinds of themes and (hopefully) fun solves ( Read more... )

Coming in a tie for first (but reaching first second) in my poll was Masyu, so by popular acclaim I bring you a 2010 Masyu. Masyu just happens to be the topic of the current GAMES Magazine PuzzleCraft article (April 2010) if you want to see some more themed Masyu I've written and read about how to construct them ( Read more... )

I can't remember how old I was, but I have a vague recollection that the first time I ever saw the puzzle now called Masyu it was labeled White Pearl, Black Pearl in GAMES magazine. I know it later went by just the name "Pearl" but at some point I could swear the two colors were separated out in the name like that. Wikipedia suggests that the ( Read more... )

So, in a pre-preview of the USPC, which I expect will have a Masyu on it again this year, I thought I'd post a Masyu variant I was experimenting with over the weekend. The concept was suggested to me by rpipuzzleguy actually, and is a really good idea (although I still have my own Masyu variant ideas on the backburner for when/if I start to work on a logic ( Read more... )