Monday, April 27, 2020

Puzzle #125 - Islands in the Stream (Mystery Combo)


Recently, puzz.link added a network play feature to allow for collaborative solving. This system mirrors inputs between any grids with the same key, and can be used to create cooperative puzzles where both solvers have incomplete information. If you want to attempt this puzzle with or without a friend, give them the second link, both select network play and change the key to something agreed upon. I recommend switching sides on this one to experience both halves.



This is a bit less crazy than my usual fare for puzzles divisible by 25, but that's because I've been working on a few other ideas and focusing my puzzle creation more towards competition sets lately- which I will still post here eventually. Keep an eye out- I'll post (possibly with preview puzzles?) if/when those get started!

Images after the break.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Puzzle #124 - Lightbugs (Mystery Combo)

Recently, puzz.link added a network play feature to allow for collaborative solving. This system mirrors inputs between any grids with the same key, and can be used to create cooperative puzzles where both solvers have incomplete information. If you want to attempt this puzzle with or without a friend, give them the second link, both select network play and change the key to something agreed upon. I recommend switching sides on this one to experience both halves.

Grid 2 Rules | Grid 2

Making co-op puzzles is interesting, though I really only have one more good idea which will hopefully go up tomorrow. Images and solo, non-interface instructions after the break.

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Puzzle #123 - Two For the Price of One (Mystery Combo)

Recently, puzz.link added a network play feature to allow for collaborative solving. This system mirrors inputs between any grids with the same key, and can be used to create cooperative puzzles where both solvers have incomplete information. If you want to attempt this puzzle with a friend, give them the second link, both select network play and change the key to something agreed upon. There are also two versions of this co-op puzzle: one that requires meta-knowledge of what your partner has as constraints, and one that does not. I recommend the first one if either solver is familiar with common types.


And if you want to solve alone, check the full post for an image. For those browsing from puzz.link/db, I apologize for the unmarked variant links here, but this seemed like the best approach for sharing this puzzle.