Puzzle #500 - Against the Flow (Guide Arrow)

Let's bring back the larger than normal puzzle for a milestone, alright? Here's a 17x17 Guide Arrow to celebrate reaching the big 500. It's not my largest or most involved milestone puzzle, but you know what? It's not about upstaging myself or anything like that, it's about having a place to share the many puzzles I've made. I made it to 500 and I'm nowhere near done here - even just in my spreadsheet I have another 99 unposted puzzles - some of which are reserved for other projects, most of which aren't - and I have so many more ideas for things to create. You guys are a great community - here's to another 500 and beyond.

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Puzzle #499 - A Line Goes Through A Guide Arrow Reverse

After exploring some aesthetic themes, I wanted to take a stab at a logical theme for Guide Arrow. While I've definitely seen more involved logical themes since, I haven't seen one quite like this. I wouldn't be surprised if it exists though. I remember getting the key deductions rolling took me a lot of tinkering to get something I liked, and that I had to move the star in order to get the last corner to resolve uniquely without breaking symmetry or earlier deductions.

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Puzzle #498 - Truly Symmetric Again (Guide Arrow)

After my first overclued attempt at a symmetry themed Guide Arrow, I tried again on a larger grid. I don't remember much about what worked or didn't work when setting this up (as it would have been in early February yeah I've been sitting on these for a while) but I do remember being much, much happier with how this one solved. Less of a puzzle that just works and more of being a puzzle that just works, if you know what I'm getting at.

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Puzzle #497 - One of Each (Guide Arrow)

Another Guide Arrow theme someone (Space, according to my spreadsheet) tried to make was to use each arrow once on a 7x7. They couldn't quite get it to work when using a ? on top of that, so I took a stab at the theme and turned up this puzzle.

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Puzzle #496 - Symmetry (Guide Arrow)

Back when Guide Arrow was first added to puzz.link, a lot of us started toying with the genre. One of the first things I tried was to make a puzzle with truly symmetric clue placements, and ended up with this fairly easy puzzle to start out.

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