Yajisan-Kazusan : Arrows and lies

 Yajisan-Kazusan is a shading puzzle type. Here are the rules :

Shade some cells on the board.

- Shaded cells cannot be horizontally or vertically adjacent.

- A number indicates the amount of shaded cells in the given direction. If a clue is shaded, the number becomes meaningless (it may be true or false).

- All unshaded cells on the board from an orthogonally connected area.

Rules taken from https://puzz.link/rules.html?yajikazu <- Check the link to see a solved example puzzle.

    I've made little "sprints" consisting of 3 puzzles of the same type (sometimes with variants), where the goal is to do all 3 of them, as fast as possible (summing times for final score, and can be done in multiple sittings) with friends. Here are the training/discovery puzzles I made.

https://puzz.link/p?yajikazu/8/8/a2241f4312b111031a4311b323323d22f31d111242b1131a122031b1333f1231a https://puzz.link/p?yajikazu/8/8/b42c31a42212222b32c10b322121c3132a20b30a3132c434142b20c13b10133221a30c33b https://puzz.link/p?yajikazu/10/10/d3142e114023b222111b43f21b12a11223321a41d41b42f13b33d22a43212142a22b41f32b432141b332040e1212d https://puzz.link/p?yajikazu/10/10/44b2331b22233442a10b33d24a20b11a4111d4122a31b22a1144c21b3313b21c1240a22b31a2220d4312a41b33a21d43b33a32441241b3212b13

 

Choco Banana 🍫🍌

Choco Banana is a shading puzzle type. Here are the rules :

- Shade some cells on the board.

- A group of shaded cells must form a rectangle or square.

- A group of unshaded cells must not form a rectangle or square.

- A number indicates the size of the (shaded or unshaded) group that overlaps it. A group can contain one or more numbers, or none at all.

Rules taken from https://puzz.link/rules.html?cbanana

    It's a catchy name with interesting logic. Here are my first goes at creating such puzzles.

https://puzz.link/p?cbanana/10/10/r54h154i64h535i64zr45i444h96i551h96r https://puzz.link/p?cbanana/10/10/j33l66h52i6l5h4l6g5n63n6gbl7h1l7ib1h99l93j https://puzz.link/p?cbanana/10/10/g5i4l5i4h7i4j6h3k7h7i8p2i1h6k4h5j3i7h1i8l8i6g

 

Welcome !

    Hello and welcome to my puzzle blog !

    This was a long overdue project i've been meaning to put in place, and i'm starting to make it a reality.

 

    Here, I will try to post all the puzzles I make for everyone to enjoy. I choose to do it on a separate page instead of sharing on big platforms like logic-masters.de or discord puzzle groups, as I tend to either lag behing in terms of quality/popularity of genres or create way too much puzzles to not flood the lists.

    I will always list the rules in my first post on a new genre here, and later reference the first post for shorter posts. I will categorize each type so that you may find every puzzle of a specific type easily.

    I cannot ensure the 100% quality of professional solvers/authors masterpieces in the puzzle sphere so it's best I post mine separately :'), but I do my best to make sure these are both do-able and valid (logic reasoning and unique solution).

    Why the "puzzle laboratory" ? Well first i'm a chemist, and also a fan of innovation. You may find types that are either really niche/unknown, or I created myself, and maybe frankenpuzzles out of my nightmares; But i'm also in favour of classic puzzles, following well-known rules of popular types.
    Currently, i'm still stu(dying) so I may not have the time to post a lot, and may be very inactive.

    I will try to share this blog with as many people as possible, and try to make the pencil puzzle community a bit bigger (and happier :) ). I will write most of it in english for accessibility worldwide but will also do posts in french (you can always use deepl.com or a google translate add-on on your browser).

    Have a good time, and have fun puzzling !