Puzzle #100 - Happy New Year! (Fillomino)

Let's get right to today's Fillomino puzzle.

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Puzzle #99 - Tri-Place (0)

Almost to 2020, can you believe it? This year just flew by- can't wait to see what amazing puzzles next year holds, and I'm also really hoping to do much better at speedsolving. I'm beating some really experienced solvers sometimes when comparing semi-casual times, so maybe I'll actually finish one of those tests at some point.

Anyway, onwards to the puzzle, a Tri-Place. It's a very, very rare puzzle type- not even 10 examples out in the wild, that I could find. For only 0 as a given, this one immediately jumped to mind- zeroes don't give much, but they should give enough to have an interesting solution. I hope you agree.

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Puzzle #98 - Tapa (1)

Tapa is a good genre. It's also very common, but less so in the database. I'm running out of things to say.

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Puzzle #97 - Yajilin (2)

Yajilin is the most common puzzle type on puzz.link. There's even quite a few with this sort of theme. Not that saturation is going to stop me from making these if I want to!

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Puzzle #96 - Fivecells (3)

Time for a throwback to the first 3 puzzles I posted here, which were FiveCells puzzles. I really enjoy this type and the addition of invalid cells (for non-standard grid shapes) makes for a lot of fun potential.

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Yes, it's in the shape of a 3. I've solved a couple 3 only FiveCells before, but they were all on rectangular grids.

Puzzle #95 - Herugolf (4)

It's time for a moving puzzle on the blog- a Herugolf! I don't know how to make these as interesting as some other puzzles.

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Puzzle #94 - Cave (5)

I made this Cave back when I made the other ones, mostly to see if I could make an interesting Cave from only one number. This is the puzzle that started this whole series.

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Puzzles #92 & #93 - Nurikabe (6)

Two Nurikabe puzzles today- both good attempts at this theme, but one is much, much better. Spoilers: it's the bigger one. Merry Christmas to any solvers checking this out :)

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Puzzle #91 - Sashigane (7)

Compared to the last few Sashigane puzzles here, this one is much easier.

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Puzzle #90 - Kurotto (8)

Who honestly expected to see Kurotto in here? I wasn't even sure if this construction would be possible until I really started thinking about it, at which point I determined 8 was plausible.

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Puzzle #89 - Tasquare (9)

Tasquare isn't even the most obscure type I'm breaking out for this little series. It was very difficult to make this puzzle under the restriction, but overall it was a reasonable process and this is definitely a type I want to make more of.

You know, like every single type ever.

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This grid shape isn't too weird, is it?

Puzzle #88 - Country Road (10)

Technically, this Country Road puzzle is a variant in that the rules normally require visiting every room, while this puzzle trivially can't.

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I really liked making this one.

Puzzle #87 - Nanro (11)

Yes, you read that right. This is a Nanro puzzle that only gives the number 11 in the grid. And only 1, to boot.

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Bonus content: This scrapped puzzle that was almost the original version of this one. Unfortunately, I made a bad deduction and the given 2 wasn't forced, and there was no way to keep that chain of logic intact under the theme.

Puzzle #86 - Shikaku (12)

Welcome, dear readers, to the themed set of 13 puzzles I mentioned last week. One puzzle a day until the new year, each using the number of days (minus one) as the sole number given in the grid, and each being a different puzzle type. Well, Christmas gets 2 puzzles, but I have a good reason for that.

Today's puzzle is, as the title says, a Shikaku that only uses the number 12. This was much easier to make than I expected it to be!

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