hutt's puzzle dump

 The original purpose of this blog was to act as a sort of portfolio for my puzzles. The name was inspired by a term used by another puzzle blogger which I interpreted as describing a large set of puzzles all posted at once, as though they had been dumped out of a large bin or something. After catching up to the present, I began treating it like a place for puzzles to go once they'd been moved on from. The name eventually became a bit less appropriate since I also on special occasions post puzzles exclusively here, most notably the Puzzletober series.  It's also grown into more of a blog because of the advent series and these monthly updates. Yet, I'm typically curt, as oftentimes there's not really much to say. Veni, vidi, construxi. A post doesn't need lots of words to offer a satisfying puzzle.

 made and shared on 7/16/26 after failing to make one the previous day All dots are given, although the dot between an A and a B may be either black or white.

My first thought upon seeing the new genre: https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?scrabble/8/11/zzzzn/4/HEY/SCRABBLE/GOT/IMPLEMENTED

 These Choco Banana puzzles were made between 7/3 and 7/5. They share a special pattern in their solution paths. https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?cbanana/7/7/n36k6w6k63n https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?cbanana/8/8/h56h1o5m6t6i6i5o1l https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?cbanana/8/8/u85m4m-10zl-10ci https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?cbanana/17/17/u-10ieue-31l7k-10zr9s3i3s3u3i-10z-2azl-10j3zl3g8zq5h-10h43n3zj

 This puzzle was set on 7/2/26 to contribute to a discussion on whether requiring the two regions to be of equal size contributes any difficult logic. I learned the trick required for the break-in from a hint on a variant sudoku. Since it's not something that I expect the average solver to have in their back pocket, I'm going to outright say here that the idea is to apply Pick's theorem. Variant rule: There must be an equal number of black and white circles. https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?yinyang/v:/6/6/1i000i202000

 I was inspired to make a couple new puzzle types today. I would describe both of them as explosive in the sense that it's really easy for deductions to propagate across the whole grid, like the streaming lights of fireworks filling the night sky. Bandwidth: Shade some more cells so that every shaded region is a rectangle of width 1 and every unshaded region borders a shaded region of the same area as it. penpa link All Stars: Place stars in some cells so that every number counts the amount of stars that can reach it by only traveling upward. Stars cannot be placed on numbers. Also, every internal vertex of the grid must belong to exactly one cell with a star. penpa link Shade some cells blue or red and place stars in some of the blue cells. The blue cells should form one fully connected region and that region should be solved as an All Stars. The rest of the grid should also form one connected region and be solved as a Bandwidth in which the red cells count as shaded. penpa link