Rattling Diamond

An easy, pretty puzzle in The Witness dialect.

Snail, crawling

Partition the grids into the 12 free pentominos.

This ends the championship celebration.

Crack On?

Greek Skeleton    Fill in the grids with all the words of the list below them, reading left to right or top to bottom, one letter per cell. A5 PDF

Wide prison

Sums, simplified Fill in the grid with numbers from the given range. Sums of rows and columns are given at bottom and right. Then circle some of the numbers. Sums of the circled numbers are given at top and left.

Range 1 ~ 17, but no 5,9,10,13

Swan, reflected

Puddles   Partition the grids into the 12 free hexamonds.

Zap!

Slant   Draw a diagonal in every cell. Do not enclose any part of the grid. For some points, the number of diagonals meeting there is given. pzv

Multiple choice?

Sums, simplified Fill in the grid with numbers from the given range. Sums of rows and columns are given at bottom and right. Then circle some of the numbers. Sums of the circled numbers are given at top and left.

Range 2 ~ 4

No one receiving

Partition the grids into the 12 free pentominos.

Peas in four pods

Fill in the grids with all the given words reading across or down. A5 .pdf

Nearly checks

Sums, simplified

Fill in the grid with numbers from the given range. Sums of rows and columns are given at bottom and right. Then circle some of the numbers. Sums of the circled numbers are given at top and left.

Range 1 ~ 9

Diamond

Slant Draw a diagonal in every cell. Do not enclose any part of the grid. For some points, the number of diagonals meeting there is given.

Windows

Puddles    Partition the shapes into the 12 free hexamonds. Each piece appears once, perhaps rotated, perhaps reflected.

Puzzle Championship celebration begins!

Introducing a new puzzle type:

Sums, simplified

Fill in the grid with numbers from the given range. Sums of rows and columns are given at bottom and right. Then circle some of the numbers. Sums of the circled numbers are given at top and left.

Range 1~9

More wind for the mill

Unless I messed something up, this Witness-like puzzle should be quite tricky. In fact, it is so tricky that the solution checker often times out, though it does work fine for the intended solution.

If the meaning of these symbols is unknown to you and you have no desire to play The Witness, feel free to ask in the comments.

Ring Ring

Rules: Draw a number of rectangles by joining the centres of cells with horizontal and vertical line segments. All white cells must be written in; all black cells should remain empty. Rectangles may intersect each other on single, non-corner points, but may not otherwise overlap. Restatement.

An actual easy intro for once.

Witness

The Witness is a superlative puzzle game, and about a third of the game's puzzles could work on paper. With the caveat that the main game activity is figuring out its rules, rather than solving per se. If you haven't, I won't spoil the game by explaining the rules. If you have, and crave a few hits more, The Windmill is a site in alpha for drawing, sharing and solving puzzles of the sort. Like this one.

Amibo

Rules of Amibo: Draw some horizontal and vertical line segments so that they are all connected without fully enclosing any area of the grid. Every line segment must intersect a line segment of the same length. You draw by joining the centres of opposite sides of empty cells. Exactly one line segment ends at each clue. Some clues may contain numbers indicating the length of the connected line segment. (Restatement)

This puzzle type is unfamiliar to me, and feels deep. The puzzle below, in the tradition of new puzzles in the blog, is far from a trifle. They also feel very averse to fixing, which is why it actually has four trivially different solutions. It's here because I still find it fun.

Amibo (4 solutions)

Heyawake

Rules. Another cute idea compromised by uniqueness.Hmph.

Heyawake 3: Compromised

Pentomino puddles

Divide the grids into the 12 different free pentominoes.

Open space

A puzzle type I spotted at the 2015 WPC. It allows for quite spare clueing, but then it is very susceptible to uniqueness arguments.

Open space rules: Paint some empty cells black. Black cells share neither side nor corners. Clues indicate the sum of visible squares in the four cardinal directions, including the clue cell. Black cells and grid edges obscure sight.

The online solver is for Kuromasu: Consequently, all its' complaints are legal, but it will accept wrong solutions.