hutt's puzzle dump

 made on 5/21/24 Link Place each digit from 1 to 9 exactly once in every row and column. Numbers in squares separated by a white dot are consecutive. Numbers in squares separated by a black dot have a ratio of 2. All possible dots are given, although the edge between a 1 and 2 could be indicated by a black dot or a white dot. Automatic answer checking requires Sudoku-Centre mode.

 made on 5/10/24, while pondering the possibilities of 14 Minesweeper Variants 2 Suppose an n-by-n minesweeper board is notated such that each row corresponds to a number from 1 to n increasing downward and each column corresponds to a letter from A to the nth letter increasing rightward. There are n mines: one in each row and column. Each column contains its letter at least once as a cipher clue: every letter corresponds to a different number from 1 to n based on the notations for the positions of each mine (e.g. a mine at E4 would imply E=4). The top-left square is safe. How should the board be solved?

Made on 2/16/22; found while looking through old files           The postmodern city of Tetra is composed of buildings on square blocks. Its name comes from how each building takes up 4 blocks of space. The only square building is the supermarket in the exact center; all the others are oddly shaped mansions. Roads are placed wherever possible between the houses, and for easier access a side road which also forms a square demarcates the city limits. I drove through the city to map it out. I started by entering from the side road through the only northern entrance. At the first intersection, I chose a direction at random which then immediately forced me into a right turn. I took the next available left with hopes of finding the market, and at the turn afterward I saw it. I remembered that the entrance to the supermarket was on the center of one of its sides, but in a state of slight disorientation I had forgotten which one. So, I circled around it clockwi...

 made on 5/5/24 Variant: Unclued circles borrow the digit from one of the digits they compare. https://puzz.link/p?minarism/v:/5/5/.p.gphj.j1pgjhj