hutt's puzzle dump

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

 This genre was invented by thejonymyster. The first four puzzles in this post were made on the nineteenth; the last one was made today. Rules: Shade some cells in the grid. Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally adjacent. All unshaded cells must form one orthogonally connected region. No 2x2 section may be left entirely unshaded. All shaded cells must form one connected network via knight moves.

 On 7/13/25, beekie invented a crossword-inspired Pentominous variant where certain rows and columns must contain intact words hinted at by clues. I managed to finish constructing a somewhat thematic puzzle the following day. https://puzz.link/p?pentominous/v:/10/10/zzzzz 3 Across: In a restless manner, or what the pieces have to do in this 10-by-10 Pentominous grid? (8) 9 Across: The most visible part of an iceberg (3) 2 Down: Completely satiated (4) 4 Down: Opposite to the direction this entry reads (2)