hutt's puzzle dump

  You can call me Alex: that's what the host would call me. I assume I've been brought in to recount what took place during the recent party at the games and sports lodge, on the last day of April. I could be jumping to conclusions, but I like to think I know a bit more than most of the others, due to being near most of the action. Though I prepared my statement, you'll find I have some trouble communicating: I'm influenced by the remarkable work of Torquemada and I'm fond of that mansion of Manson. While I may appear to ramble, I hope you'll understand that I choose my words very carefully and that everything I reveal has at least one purpose behind it. Now, from our Clue playing, I knew my opponent enjoys a principled opening. I heard an echo from someone outside who was preparing to drive, then the clear sound of a hit. As I considered opening a quiz book, a white ball smashed through a nearby window and shattered a vase of Lefou. Our ref couldn't kee...

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...