hutt's puzzle dump

 This month has been as busy as it tends to be. In addition to projects not related to puzzles, I've also been working more consistently on making a pack and designing for something larger. I've stopped working on the solver because it feels a bit disenchanting to approach logic puzzles without looking for the underlying logic. I've also put the patchworks to rest again but made a bit of progress in the fan project that I put on hiatus a while ago. Additionally, I've been daydreaming of a sort of digital puzzle book with rule deduction where the central mechanic involves dominoes, but since it would likely be fully illustrated, I don't think I could complete it this year even if I prioritized it heavily.  A few days ago, I noticed that a bad actor was squatting on a previously expired domain I was linking to. I sincerely apologize if anyone was led there because of my negligence. I've removed links where unnecessary and retracted posts where important. At least ...

 I consider this genre to be on the more difficult side amongst the walks due to how the way the path is allowed to move is dependent on how it moves in other not given and often remote sections of the grid. Although it may seem looser at first than Fire Walk or Ice Walk, the alternating pattern introduces an aspect of parity that tends to increase the nuance of deductions. These three puzzles were made yesterday. https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?roboticwalk/7/7/5a0540e82sg3zy69l https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?roboticwalk/7/7/vs32q61gfuo7g1zl8p https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?roboticwalk/9/9/al04440i4g2220al0p3h3h3z5h3h5j3g4s3k5p

I think the main appeal of the 2025 puzzle, at least for me, is how much care was taken in coming up with entries that belong in one category but allude to another. It would not surprise me if every category represents 45 other categories with its entries. It's a bit like setting up a lot of puns. I was inspired to try to do something similar on a smaller scale. It was fun but taxing to keep all the possibilities in mind and form connections between them. The following list of 225 things can be grouped into 15 categories of 15 things. To make it approachable, I'd say the puzzle is solved when all 15 categories have been identified, which doesn't necessarily require sorting all the things. 5 11 13 311 400 Aerie Alfa All fours Alpha Andalus Angerona Angers Anvil Archie Aria Math Arial Aries Arizona Arles Astros Atlas Ballade Bastille Black Jack Bodhi Bond Bordeaux Born Bourré Boxing Brave Bravo Brest Bridge C4 Caelum Caelus Caen Cambria Math Cancer Candara Canine Carpenter Ca...