Puzzles #658 & #659 - 24HPC Domino Kurodoko

I also contributed several puzzles to the Puzzlers Club rounds at the 2024 24 Hour Puzzle Championship this year. We authored two rounds, each with 24 puzzles. The first round had one puzzle themed on each Greek letter, while the second round was a double zodiac (signs and animals).

Very early on I grabbed Beta and made a variant Kurodoko where instead of shading single cells, you shade dominoes instead. This variant does result in a bit of struggle for uniquely specifying the orientation, and can also sometimes have long-term propagations that break the puzzle way in advance. I'm pretty happy with how this 40 point puzzle turned out. I also wrote an example for the type, since it wasn't a classic type.

puzz.link interface      penpa interface

puzz.link interface      penpa interface