#A32: Coffee Milk and Milk Tea
Both of today's genres were new to me until I browsed the advent calendar. I had seen Coffee Milk before on puzz.link's puzzle type list, but it's obscure enough that I never tried setting any and probably didn't solve many until recently. Despite similarities between their appearances and input method, the two rulesets tend to explore entirely different ideas.
The premise of Coffee Milk interests me, but it seems difficult to set a logically hard puzzle because the ruleset is a bit loose: it's easy to miss a potential connection, divide groups differently, or completely ignore a gray circle that's expected to contribute. Thus, the puzzle I made for it today is meant to be easy.
https://puzz.link/p?coffeemilk/12/7/b1b..b222a11a.b.c21a1d.c2b2c.c1c1b.d2c1a.d2d1a....a2b
I also enjoyed learning about Milk Tea, although I'm actually not that good at it because it often asks for a method of scanning I'm not well-versed in. On occasion, it lends itself naturally to global counting ideas, and I suspect that there may be configurations that create computational logic on a large scale.
Variant: DIY Milk Tea. You may add additional clues to the grid.
Apologies for not setting many puzzles today. I got sidetracked and found it difficult to approach setting both types due to my usual method of placing a few clues at a time not usually being viable.
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