Look-Air

I had to learn the rules of this one by experimentation. They are:

Form distinct squares of various sizes by painting cells black. Consecutive squares in any line or column are of different sizes. Clues describe the number of black cells in the 5 cell cross shape with the clue as its centre.

PZV now supports tapa puzzles

Rules.

Handles

Rules of Bag. Par 2:00

Purging

There is a giant, growing file on my desktop; I vomit anxiety into it. Financial graphs and calculations, on both personal and macro matters. Incoherent dissertations, aborted blog posts and morose entries for a non-existent diary. Stuff like this week-old gem:

I told you so. Right down to the date. I wish I was wrong.

"You" in this case refers to those who suffer me in meatspace. I had been going on about the breakdown in Greece's arrangements with its lenders' Troika, and the subsequent imposition of a bank holiday and capital controls. I listened to the official announcement while sitting in my balcony, enjoying a lovely breeze, a glorious sunset, and some delicious pastry after a quick game of Carcassone. Lunch was a rather rich mousaka. I went full stereotype.

Greece has had an interesting week after defaulting on the International Monetary Fund. If you need a quick summary on how the last several years ended up here, here's a quick recap of the state of play, in three charts and thirty-three hundred words. Hey, Greeks are supposed to be rather fond of both endless epics and tragedies.

Today is Deeply Sketchy Plebiscite Day, and, at 7 in the morning, I was so very ready to yell FRIST! to the confusion of all present. As on the Internet, somehow two people had beat me to it. Yes, Sherlock, our ballot boxes are indeed made of acrylic glass. So I prayed in the form of marking a tiny cross by the Erised question, and cast it to preserve the nationwide illusion of control.

Here are the de-obfuscated choices:

• Honour, Dignity and Rationing FTW! In practical terms, the re-introduction of a national currency, and a giant nominal devaluation to follow the giant current internal devaluation. But after that unpleasantry, our heroic, muscular government will lead us to Socialist Utopia. Venezuela is often cited as an example, unironically. Supported by the ruling radical left party, and a couple of shades of regressive right, including national socialist black.
• Telling Mutti we're very sorry to have upset her, that we'll really like our new bank haircut, we'll do all our immigrant beating chores, and that we understand our naughtiness is the reason she has to take all state assets and sovereignty from us. In practical terms, inescapable and permanent depression is the best of possible outcomes of this path. Supported by the parties that got us into the mess in the first place, and their cronies, clients and bosses.

So I vomited democracy into a clear box first thing in the morning. Tomorrow, a close result of questionable validity will be making the day interesting again.

Bag of post on Greece

Rules of this Bag / Corral / Cave / whatever puzzle. Par 2:25. You might need your eraser.

As you probably noticed, Greece lives in interesting times. This makes it fodder for the chattering classes across the globe. Chatter with rather shoddy factual basis as it turns out. So please ask me any questions, of any specificity, you may have on Greece, its economy, and the crisis, and I'll do my best to answer.

Kurotto

Rules.

Chipped Diamond

Average Masyu, although clue density may scatter focus.

Χριστουγεννιάτικο Κουίζ

A Holiday season quiz, in Greek. Answers and a more strategic way to administer it , one which encourages some answer sharing follow on pages 3 and 4.

Easy Fences

Start is slightly unusual in an otherwise easy Slitherlink.

Hail Mary

Instructions (PDF, 7.1, page 28).
Puzzle (A3-sized PDF).
 This Snake Pit problem was created for purposes of Greek team prep for the WPC.

111

Consecutive Kakuro of at least average difficulty. Rules and more.

Consecutive Kakuro

Distilled

Masyu. Medium difficulty.

Masyu 10

Mochinyoro

Paint some empty cells black. No square of side 2 is entirely black. No black area is rectangular. All white areas are rectangular. All white areas are diagonally adjacent. A white area may contain up to one number, and that number must be its area.

The following puzzle is intended to be instructive, so not terribly hard.

Jigsaw

It's been a while. Cut the shape along the lines into eight different pieces of equal area. Pieces which can be rotated and/or mirrored to match are not considered different.

8-piece jigsaw

Decidedly Average Haido

EDIT: puzzle is broken
What can I say? I got inspired, though I don't think the type has much to offer. Rules.

Haido the Oneth

Introductory Reflect Link

Introductory in the sense that it's very easy, not in the sense that it's this blog's first puzzle of the kind. What fun would doing things in order be?

Draw a single loop through some cells of the grid. All places where the loop crosses over itself are given, and the loop goes straight at all such intersections. Some loop corners are marked. On some of these marks the number of cells occupied by the corner is given.

An introductory Reflect Link

Yes, that's another pattern breaking kludge.

A Tall Fence

My original intent was to write an easy puzzle. It is anything but. Please share your solve experience. (Rules of Fences)

Tall fences

Painting black rectangles again

This Nuribou puzzle is large but easy, with the possible exception of its very first step. It is also the blog's first puzzle constructed while I was standing up.

The Seventh Nuribou

Φθινοπωρινός διαγωνισμός προβλημάτων λογικής

 ΝΕΟ: Λυπούμαι να ανακοινώσω την επ'αόριστον αναβολή του προγραμματισθέντος διαγωνισμού, ελέω λειψού ενδιαφέροντος. Ευχαριστώ τους πρόθυμους συμμετέχοντες

Την Κυριακή 6η Οκτώβρη, μεταξύ 17:00 και 20:00, θα διεξαχθεί χρονομετρημένος διαγωνισμός προβλημάτων λογικής στο Καφέ Άλφα (Αλεξάνδρου Σβώλου και Εθνικής Αμύνης, Θεσσαλονίκη).
Πριν από το διαγωνισμό, στις 16:20, η διοργάνωση θα είναι διαθέσιμη για να συζητήσει τα προβλήματα και να απαντήσει σε τυχόν απορίες. Δεν απαιτείται πρότερη εμπειρία με τα προβλήματα λογικής

Ο διαγωνισμός θα περιλαμβάνει προβλήματα:

• Κάθε είδους: παραδοσιακά, μοντέρνα κλασικά, παραλλαγές και πρωτότυπα.
• Κάθε δυσκολίας: από εισαγωγικά ως επιπέδου παγκοσμίου πρωταθλήματος.
• Κάθε δεξιότητας: λεκτικά, αριθμητικά, τεμαχισμού, σχέδια, παρατήρησης κοκ

Οι διαγωνιζόμενοι χρειάζεται να φέρουν μαζί τους τα εργαλεία γραφής της αρεσκείας τους. Συνίσταται μολύβι και γόμα. Επιτρέπεται να φέρουν επιπλέον άγραφο χαρτί για λόγους σημειώσεων, το οποίο ωστόσο δεν βαθμολογείται. Επιτρέπονται επίσης γεωμετρικά όργανα. Απαγορεύεται η χρήση οποιασδήποτε υπολογιστικής ή ηλεκτρονικής συσκευής, η συνεργασία με άλλους λύτες, και η χρήση σημειώσεων ή βιβλίων αναφοράς.

Το αποτέλεσμα του διαγωνισμού θα είναι μία βαθμολογημένη κατάταξη. Δεν υπάρχουν έπαθλα, παρά μόνο τιμή για τους νικητές. Δεν υπάρχει τίμημα συμμετοχής, αλλά κάλυψη του κόστους διοργάνωσης θα εκτιμηθεί ιδιαίτερα. Οι διαγωνιζόμενοι της Θεσ/νίκης θα πρέπει να εκδηλώσουν ενδιαφέρον απαντώντας σε αυτό το μήνυμα ή με σχόλιο στην αντίστοιχη δημοσίευση στην ομάδα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου μέχρι τις 10:00 της προηγούμενης ημέρας. Δεχόμαστε συμμετέχοντες που απλά εμφανίζονται στον ορισθέντα τόπο, αλλά δεν μπορούμε να εγγυηθούμε την ύπαρξη αντιτύπων για αυτούς. Οι συμμετέχοντες ενθαρρύνονται να κοινοποιήσουν τη διεξαγωγή του διαγωνισμού ευρέως.

Αν ενδιαφέρεστε να οργανώσετε το διαγωνισμό σε άλλη πόλη της Ελλάδας ή της Κύπρου, παρακαλείστε να δημοσιεύσετε εδώ. Τα υλικά του διαγωνισμού (φυλλάδιο οδηγιών, γύροι προβλημάτων, φυλλάδιο λύσεων και βαθμολόγησης) θα διατεθούν κατόπιν συνεννόησης.

Much too expensive

...for its intended use.

Another one in the unfair series I fear. This is a Price Tag puzzle. An addition of numbers formed by 7 segment LCD displays. No trickery like unlit displays, 0 prefixes, 1s made of left segments is allowed. Number forms are given. The clues indicate how many of that specific LCD segment are lit in the relevant row or column.