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Working for @lunarchstudios. Play my own games at https://teapawt.net/t.co/lglsyoUYij. I also make a lot of logic puzzles.

Joined May 2019
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At this point I use Twitter almost exclusively so the puzz.link database can pick up the links. Everything else is going on Mastodon now. In particular, I've been posting daily instructionless puzzles for #EnigMarch over there: mastodon.gamedev.place/@Mend…
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The wait is finally over! Islands of Insight is out today! 🎉 10,000+ handcrafted puzzles and countless hours of gameplay await you. Play Now! ➡️bit.ly/4897MPB
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Welcome to Islands of Insight. Play as a Seeker on a peaceful journey of exploration and puzzle solving in a lively expansive open world. Wishlist today bit.ly/42n3TCq
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Speaking of puzz.link, the database has stopped picking up puzzles from Twitter. I don't know what the plan for that is, but if the Twitter scraper does not come back, it's possible I'll only post these puzzles on Mastodon in the future.
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No new genre on puzz.link this week, so here's an Angle Loop: puzz.link/p?angleloop/6/6/1a…
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I made a couple of puzzles for a construction contest, where the task was to make puzzles which can be described in a single tweet (assuming known genre conventions). I'll post them in the replies. The Choco Banana won the contest. 🎉
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Choco Banana on a 10x10 grid. Starting from the second cell of the top row, write the following clues as a snake which does not touch itself, not even diagonally, such that it results in a valid puzzle: 2-3-2-3-1-3-3-3-4-4-4-3-1-7-?-?-?-?-7-?-?-1-?-7-?-4-?-?-2-4-4-1-?-?-5-1-5-1.
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Divide a 10x10 grid into 2x2 regions. Add clues to the following regions. Top row from the left: 1, 2, 3, 3. Middle row from the right: 1, 1, 2. Bottom row from the left: 3, 1, 1, 1. All other regions remain unclued. Solve as a Remembered Length puzzle.
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Heyakichiwake puzz.link/p?akichi/v:/10/10/… Variant: clues are both Heyawake and Akichiwake clues, i.e. they indicate both the number of shaded cells and the largest contiguous unshaded area in a region. I suspect this might work better on a larger grid or with non-rectangular regions
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Circles & Squares (Look-Air): Unshaded squares of the same size cannot be connected by a straight line of shaded cells. puzz.link/p?circlesquare/v:/… puzz.link/p?circlesquare/v:/…
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I'm a little late this week. Oyakodori got added to puzz.link. Here's a 6x6: puzz.link/p?oyakodori/6/6/99…
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Introducing Gravel, a genre I designed a year ago today. Pedro was so kind to implement it in his Kudamono Editor: pedros.works/paper-puzzle-pl… You can find more puzzles on the genre's Kudamono page and on my blog starting here: brokensign.com/puzzle/2023/0…
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Shoutout to @davemakes's Mixolumia, which loosely inspired these rules when I started to think about what a logic puzzle genre on a rotated square grid might look like.
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Guide Arrow (Dominoes): each shaded cell is adjacent to exactly one other shaded cell puzz.link/p?guidearrow/v:/9/…
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There's no new genre on puzz.link this week, so I'm back to going through old genres. Here's an Amibo: puzz.link/p?amibo/6/6/e.g2c.…
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Simple Gako was added to puzz.link this week. The genre name seems a little misleading to me. :D Anyway, here's a 6x6. puzz.link/p?simplegako/6/6/j… This one is pretty tough and might be easier to intuit, but it does have a logical solve path.
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