hutt's puzzle dump

 constructed offline on 8/16/25 One number has been misplaced and really applies to a different region. https://puzz.link/p?akichi/v:/13/13/i64pj6cpj601j6cpj6cpj2cpj6cpj60gvts00g03vvnvu002007futro00g01rv0l1g23l4g5g6k789j

  You can call me Alex: that's what the host would call me. I assume I've been brought in to recount what took place during the recent party at the games and sports lodge, on the last day of April. I could be jumping to conclusions, but I like to think I know a bit more than most of the others, due to being near most of the action. Though I prepared my statement, you'll find I have some trouble communicating: I'm influenced by the remarkable work of Torquemada, the cruciverbalist, and I'm fond of that mansion of Manson, the illustrator. While I may appear to ramble, I hope you'll understand that I choose my words very carefully and that everything I reveal has at least one purpose behind it. Now, from our Clue playing, I knew my opponent enjoys a principled opening. I heard an echo from someone outside who was preparing to drive, then the clear sound of a hit. As I considered opening a quiz book, a white ball smashed through a nearby window and shattered a v...

Seeing the name of the latter genre reminded me of the former, which inspired this doppel. Constructing it ended up being a puzzle in itself due to how Tile City tends to require lots of small regions somewhat near each other whereas Number City tends to need large regions near small ones. https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?tilecity/6/6/3jvs9cui09dmzj https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?numcity/6/6/zv3jvs9cui09dm

 While trying to translate the variants of 14 Minesweeper Variants into Heyawake variants was a fun challenge, at times I had to re-interpret the variants in new ways to align with how Heyawake works. To be clear, this isn't a bad thing and likely made the Heyawakes feel fresher than they would otherwise, but I still felt as though, if I wanted to make a more complete series, I should choose another paper puzzle that could accommodate all the variants of both games nearly verbatim. Specifically, I had the following criteria in mind: It must be a pre-existing genre (not named Minesweeper), ideally one people know about. I searched through the Kudamono editor's list first because I could use the built-in variant support for some of the puzzles, but I wasn't opposed to sifting through pzprxs as a second resort. Luckily, I didn't end up having to resort to reading the Dictionary. It must be a cell-shading puzzle or otherwise have a satisfying binary-cell interpretation. For...

 I've been getting stuff done this month, but it's the sorts of things that are part of something larger that I may want to wait for. For example, the writing project is over 85% complete. I also recently hit the first milestone for a large puzzle project I started early this month. I'll make a post for it soon after triple-checking for uniqueness. Speaking of milestones, three days ago, the blog hit a combined 10k post views! Thank you all for checking out my puzzles! It feels nice to be neither obscure nor well-known in this field. For this post, I've decided to include puzzles I've shared to two other sites but for some reason or another have not shared here yet. These Narrowfence puzzles were made on the last day of May. They also appear with credit in part five of the creator's paper puzzle collections . The links use different shapes from the original puzzles due to constraints of the editor. I found the logical techniques of this genre to be fresh yet int...

 Made to celebrate a rare occasion Rules: Slice the grid using straight lines that connect pairs of grid points on the grid's edge such that every region contains exactly one circle. Slices cannot pass through circles or be colinear with a grid edge. Also, every slice must be exactly as long as the grid is wide. 7x5 5x4 25x7