Double Choco #6

Puzz.link interface [✏️✏️✏️]

Double Choco #5

Puzz.link interface [✏️✏️✏️]

 

Double Choco #4

Puzz.link interface [✏️✏️✏️]

Double Choco #3

     I'll try using Toketa's rating system (well, with my judgment on difficulty anyway) by rating out of 5 (or 5+ if needed) with ✏️for a point in logic solving and a 🎯 for trial-and-error solving. I'll also add a + at the end of a rating if the overall difficulty is probably underestimating some steps during the solve. Also Double chocos everyday up to sunday.

Puzzle 1 [✏️+]

Puzzle 2 [✏️🎯]

Double Choco #2

    2 Double Choco for today. I worked with the same layout for both grids, and exploited 2 different ideas from the same pattern. Second puzzle is harder than the first. Rules here.

Puzzle 1 - Puzzle 2

Double Choco 🍫🍫

      Double Choco is a region division puzzle with simple rules, but it's quite hard to visualize the regions from time to time. The genre reminds of Galaxies while keeping flexibility with region sizes (which you will see how little you can indicate...). Here are the rules :

Divide the grid into regions.

- Each region contains one white and one grey contiguous area. Both areas must be the same size and shape. They can be rotated or mirrored.

- A number indicates the size of the (same colored) area the number is placed in. A region can contain one or more identical numbers.

Rules taken from puzz.link - click here for a solved example.

     It's quite a recent genre from Nikoli, but has since made for really tough puzzles. Usually it requires step-by-step research on how to accomodate for big regions or finding which cells belong with which others. Do not get scared by the medium sized-puzzle and do go back to this post for a similar puzzle. I do not expect people discovering the genre here to solve the third puzzle without struggle.

Puzzle 1 (easy)

Puzzle 2 (medium)

Puzzle 3 (hard)

Division Dinner #1

      Time has come for a region division puzzle pack. Today we're featuring Sashigane, Fillmat, Pentominous, Double Choco and Hougan Bunkatsu. Wafusuma was featured in a week series so if you haven't tried the puzzles, check them out. It felt redundant to make more for now. The rules of Hougan Bunkatsu are detailed below, others have a rules section in the "Help" tab.

     Rules for Hougan Bunkatsu :

- Divide the grid into areas.

- In a region a letter may occur only once.

- A subset sign (⊂) between two areas indicates that the area to which the rounding points is a true subset of the letters in the other area.

- An equal sign (=) between two areas indicates that both areas contain the same letters.

- All subset- and equal-signs are already given.

     Rules taken from janko.at - click here for solved example puzzles.

    I'm satisfied with all puzzles here, but do look up Fillmat and Hougan Bunkatsu before if you never heard of them and are not sure about handling the difficulty of these ones. More Double Chocos coming Friday.

    Edit : Sashigane was updated because of two solutions in previous version.

Sashigane (easy to medium)

Double Choco (medium)

Pentominous (medium)

Fillmat (medium to hard)

Hougan Bunkatsu (medium to hard)