Service Interruption

 Google does what it does best and is nuking the integrated image hosting. I will be providing a file archive when Google finishes with extraction, and linking to it here. Any interactive links should still work, and you can also ask me to rifle through it if you're looking for something in particular. I will make different arrangements for future posts. Thank you for your patience.

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Harp

Enter a number from 1 to 9 in every cell. Numbers don't repeat in any row, column or outlined box. Numbers along the body of an arrow add up to the number in the circle. Numbers along a line ending in two circles are all larger than the number in one of two circles, and also all smaller than the number in the other. Click for web interface.

That's not how you cut a pie, you monster

 

Lazy

 Wagiri rules: Draw a diagonal in every cell. Point clues count the diagonals meeting at the point. The busier cell clue belongs on a loop, the other does not.

Easy.

 

 

Cyberpunk 2021

 I was introduced to the gene shop through the dark web. I went through the gap between the buildings, took the elevator down. The fluorescent starter and motion sensor failed to light the hall until after I exited to the car park. The electrical closets were buzzing, and bad music from the business above was echoing. The plain white cab was in the shadows of the furthest corner.

 She came out from behind the car masked, suited from head to toe. I flashed her my cell. She opened a bag, and I dropped the agreed cash in. She picked up the probe from the car hood, and I took a deep breath of basement fumes. She looked up at my face through her screen, and quickly jammed the probe up my nose. It wriggled, and I felt pain in a new place.

 The probe was just as quickly removed, and I noticed a lady in her forties to our side. She tried to look put together, forcing herself to keep a discreet distance. Most didn't want to be known as a customer, and I respected that. I moved away from them both. Now all I had to do was wait.

Bandwagon

Easy Aqre puzzle.

Rules of Aqre

Shade one orthogonally connected group of cells so that all 1x4 / 4x1 rectangles of cells are partially shaded. Clues count the shaded cells in the containing region.

EDIT: FIXED Thanks to IHNN for reporting

Aqre 1

 

 

Commemorative

 This is a Thermo, X-Sums, Little killer sudoku.

On Oct 28, 1940 the Italian ultimatum was declined (" Όχι "), and Greece entered WWII. It is now a national holiday.

 

Horrors of Hiroimono

Rules of Goishi

Start by picking up any stone. Continue by picking up one of the closest on any of the four cardinal directions to the most recent picked spot, and repeat until no stones are left. Consecutive picks can't be on opposite directions. If a stone is numbered with N, then it is the Nth stone picked.

 The addition of indexes makes this the GP, not the standard formulation. The automated solver won't impose the restriction.

Break fruit

A hitori and a masyu scribbled during work lulls:

Hitori 6

Masyu 12

Rejected

Stostone rules. Difficulty varies, not to order.

Cheaty

Rules of Heyawake.

Moar Minarism

Rules.

Spun

Minarism: Put a number between 1 and the square's dimension in every cell. Numbers do not repeat in rows nor columns. Some pairs of adjoining cells are compared with inequality signs. For some pairs, their difference is circled between them.

Difficulty: Vanilla

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Rules

Fill all questionmarks and some empty cells with numbers, such that all numbers are orthogonally connected into one shape. Same numbers do not share cell sides. A number sums the empty cells in its row and column directly visible from its position without going over another number.

Troll entry

Rules of Nurikabe. Difficulty: trolling, obviously.

Flood

Rules of Yajilin. There's a flood of average Yajilin on the internet, let's contribute. Slightly above easy.

 

 

Doggy

Rules of Scrin: Shade cells to form rectangles. Rectangles don't share any cell side, but each rectangle shares corners with exactly two other rectangles. In this manner, rectangles enclose a single orthogonally connected unshaded area. All clues must be covered by rectangles, but no rectangle may cover multiple clues. Clue numbers indicate the area of its covering rectangle in cells.

Written to familiarise me with the genre, I don't really think it's a pleasant solve.

Scrin 01

Shaken

A Loop Special puzzle. Rules. Slightly above easy.

Loop Special 2

Trapezoid puddles

Divide the grey shapes along the lines into distinct 4-cell pieces. Pieces matching after rotation and/or reflection are considered the same. The list of pieces is provided below. Difficulty: Easy

Elegant

I've been of the opinion that in genres where clues and givens differ, constructors are tempted to avoid the latter. I understand how the restriction, much like symmetries, allow the setter to enjoy himself and play with the rules, and then share a beautiful by-product of his fun with others. But it has been my  experience that, in making this an expectation for handmade puzzles, both authors and solvers often suffer: ideas are compromised, brute force and bifurcation enters the picture, and completing the grid becomes unfun and laborious.

I further claim that one of the genres that suffers the most from this is Skyscrapers, where often eliminating one problematic possibility inserts multiple new clues, which then undermine the existing logic chain. This is all a very long-winded to say that I don't care for my street cred enough not to post a neat, easy Skyscrapers puzzle. I do find it telling of the attitude that the otherwise excellent pzv doesn't even consider allowing me to offer solvers a given. Thus, if you use the solver linked through the image, you're going to have to carry the 1.


Skyscraper rules

Place one number between one and the side length of the grid in each empty cell. Numbers in the same row, or the same column, should differ. Clues outside the grid indicate how many cell numbers are larger than any preceding cell number.
Alternative, equivalent rule description.


Remember to carry the given 1 through to the automated solver offered by clicking the image.