hutt's puzzle dump

 I ought to at least partially discuss Islands of Insight in the opener to this post. I personally enjoyed it as I was exploring it: I knew I wasn't going to be approaching it like a completionist, and I had high hopes that everything that was being introduced would be used to its fullest potential. This unfortunately turned out not to be the case, as the hidden object challenges and most movement challenges especially felt like they were simply inserted to increase the activity density. However, there are a couple enclaves that come to mind that explored puzzle types other than the logic grids with enough rigor to include their own satisfying insights. One of these, which introduced a wall puzzle type with colored tiles, really taught me to appreciate the capabilities of a concept the market tends to present as a pseudo-puzzler, just by tweaking a couple rules to replace luck with satisfying logic. The game's greatest strength is easily the logic grid puzzles, which were hand-...

There doesn't appear to be an entry for today. penpa link

  N ow a thin fog began to set in, making it difficult to see the path westward. Luckily, I packed some binoculars, which allowed me to look ahead. Rules: Draw a path that enters and exits the grid from the left and right sides of a certain row. The path doesn't pass through shaded squares.  Triangles are Hyperopia clues: they point in the one cardinal direction with the furthest line segment, with seeing no segment counting as a distance of infinity.  You may shade squares you know are not on the path, which will reveal five additional clues. penpa link