hutt's puzzle dump

     I hope I haven't discouraged anyone by my inactivity here. I've been busy working on several things, including the big projects I alluded to earlier. I'm losing hold of the motivation to pursue the fan project, and I've encountered (and partially surpassed!) some blockage regarding a novella since I've encountered a break in the storm that needs to be choreographed, but I hesitate to approach the remaining project since it's the one that would most likely take the longest to completely construct. At least I found the time to make another levelpack, though the map title may come across as an unintentionally poignant metaphor.      Lately I've been spending most of my free time solving puzzles rather than setting, though I've also started watching Taskmaster to fill the late hours when I'm empirically less likely to make unique puzzles. I did make a set of  three   Mirroring   Tiles  on the tenth to keep myself from getting too rusty,...

 I made this one yesterday.  I really like how it turned out despite the foundational decisions being made on a whim. Online solving link

These were made on 12/15/24, based on the ruleset from this YouTube video . The second puzzle below has multiple solutions unless different district sizes are used for each.

 Teeth was created by thejonymyster for 1D1P. It's a variant minesweeper that incorporates rule deduction for its clues. Because it allows exporting board seeds and has a clue type that doesn't require digging anything to reveal, it's possible for a board to be completely solvable without guessing, which isn't usually guaranteed. I've collected all the deducible board links I've openly shared and copied them here. You can start playing without a seed at  https://thejonymyster.neocities.org/Teeth  to learn the rules first. Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4

These were made between 11/28/24 and 12/1/24 while exploring the idea of giving shaded regions bounding boxes. I really like how the logic ended up having depth to it: these puzzles rely on some special theory that I don't think applies to any other puzzle I've seen before. Rules: Shade some cells and divide the grid into rectangular regions such that each rectangular region is the smallest possible grid-aligned bounding box for each orthogonally-connected mass of shaded cells. (That is, the shaded cells in each region collectively touch every edge of the region but are never adjacent to the shaded cells of other regions.) Numbers reveal the area of the shaded mass in the same box and cannot be shaded. The first has been solved in the picture below as an example. penpa link

 Made on November 24th, during a brief discussion on what puzzle CAPTCHAs might look like:

 The rules for these puzzles are meant to be deduced. One has been solved as an example. I'd recommend trying to solve all the puzzles in a set before looking at the next set, but it's likely you won't have to go back to change your answers. Most of this was created back on January 28th, 2024, but after finally deciding to share it on November 20th, I replaced a nonunique puzzle in the third set and created the fifth set as a bonus, and as of February 19th, 2025, the replacement puzzle was found to be impossible and has since been re-replaced. SET 1 SET 2 SET 3 SET 4 SET 5

These were made on the first of November, last year. I was inspired to return to The Windmill by a YouTube video about forward design in logic puzzles from the creator of Taiji that used the site to demonstrate an example. I wanted to explore some logic from having the starting point in the center of the panel, but these panels weren't necessarily designed to have only one solution. Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3

These were made on September 19th, 2024, inspired by a puzzle that used this subset of the rules, as an attempt to show that this setting restriction can still involve interesting solving theory. https://puzz.link/p?aquapelago/10/10/.h.h.h.z.h.k.z.k.h.z.h.h.h./ https://puzz.link/p?aquapelago/9/6/g.g.o.r.w.g.g.k