Masyu (Foreshadowing)

     Following an idea cooked by my last braincell, Masyu (Foreshadowing) is a genre made in collaboration with Barbitos (who frankly just talked about foreshadow then I flipped.) This is a bad idea and in no circumstances should this by imitated at home, even if i'm not a professional to begin with. Here are the rules :

    Draw a loop that goes through all pearls.

- The loop cannot cross itself or branch off.

- White pearls must be passed straight throught then at least one turn must occur immediately before or after the pearl. Black pearls must lie on a turn and the loop must go straight immediately before and after the pearl. However, some pearls may not enfore the rule immediately (see below).

- A number in a pearl indicate when the pearl rule takes place. A pearl with the number X enforces its rules on the Xth cell visited by the loop after visiting the pearl (a 0 means the rule takes place on the pearl itself.) Multiple pearls can take effect at the same time if they are of the same color.

    The light gray cells show where the white pearls take effect, drak gray for black pearls.

Click here for an interactive version of the example puzzle.

Puzzle 1 - Puzzle 2

 

Masyu 📿

      Today, a simple Masyu puzzle. Rules can be found here.

Puzz.link Interface

Masyu #2

      Antoher Masyu post. I managed to make harder puzzles using chains of clues that create deeper logic. Hopefully you can solve all of them after the previous puzzles here (1) and here (3), but chack the puzz.link database for more (especially bigger ones) to get used to it.

     Rules for the puzzle on this post.

Puzzle 1 (easy)

Puzzle 2 (easy)

Puzzle 3 (medium)

Puzzle 4 (hard)

Loop Lunch #1

    Following the Shading Shake post, here is a bundle of Loop type puzzles. To make it more interesting, I will start the bundles with easier puzzles (except Yajilin, I hate Yajilin I hate Yajilin Ī̷̪ ̴̟̑ẖ̵͝a̷͕̋t̸̯̎é̶̫ ̶̝̂Y̸͖͐a̵̺͆j̶̧̓i̸̢̾ḻ̴̒i̶̞̾n̴͈̅ I̷̙͌͒ ̵̦̩̜͓̀́͆h̷̢̞̪͔͊̀ȃ̴̛̞̜̹̺́͝t̵͖̝̫̥̑͋̄͊e̷͔͙͗͘ ̴̙̜͋̇Y̴͍͙̩̱̓̃͊̽a̵͈͚̖͓̐̊͊͝j̸̎̑̐ͅỉ̴̠̭l̷͈̤̫̬̈̋͠i̵͙̱̫͋̾̊̄ͅn̶̫̖̘̔) and I will share harder ones later. For the ones starting with hard puzzles, easier ones will come later. This is a way to explore the loop genre, featuring Masyu (already done in this post), Barns, Injekushon (I will put it as "injection" here), Geradeweg and Yajilin (featured here). Like before, I won't go over the rules here, but the puzz.link "rules" tab (Help section) will provide you with good explanations. Yes, the last puzzle is kind of a joke, but it is also a way to please the hardcore Yajilin experts (who are definetly not my target audience lmao).

    The rules for Injection can be found here.

Masyu (easy)

Barns (easy)

Injection (easy to medium)

Geradeweg (medium to hard)

Yajilin (very hard)

Masyu ⚪⚫

     Masyu is a neat loop genre puzzle type with rules that while look simple enough, must be thouroughly understood to be able to solve them. They make for quite appealing puzzles, although I am not a specialist when it comes to loop genres. Here are the rules :

Draw lines through orthogonally adjacent cells to form a loop that goes through every circle.

1. The loop cannot branch off or cross itself.

2. The loop must turn on black circles and travel straight through the cells before and after the circle.

3. The loop must go straight through white circles, and turn in at least one of the cells on either side.

Rules taken from puzz.link -> Click here for a solved example. Here, don't hesitate to go see the examples of wrong answers on this page to better understand the properties of each pearl/circle.

    The puzzles today are entry-level (except the 3rd one which is a bit tougher), and should not take you long to finish. The genre itself can make quite fiendish puzzles, beware of what you may find on databases or past championships !

Puzzle 1

Puzzle 2

Puzzle 3