Showing posts with label nibunnogo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nibunnogo. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2026

pzprxs (and other puzzling) updates!

Alright then. It's been too long.

pzprxs has been continuing to update and add new genres for quite a while at this point, and I have some old puzzle posts that didn't have solution check that I get to replace now! But this doesn't add the puzzles to the increasingly less relevant database, which I'd like to do. So, just like the big update 4 years ago I'll be reposting links for all of these puzzles.

Bosnian Road (previously appeared #356, #357 - Hexagony)

Isowatari (previous appeared #577 - #589 - New Genre Pack, #590)

Nibunnogo (previously appeared #603, #604 - Puzzle Getchu!)

Japanese Sums (previously appeared #624, #625 - Puzzle Getchu!)

As for where I've been, I was hard at work on a few other puzzle related projects. Most notably a few months ago The Artisan of Glimmith released, a region division puzzle game with over 1000 handmade puzzles, curated by me, with Overwhelmingly Positive feedback and an estimated 100k+ sales! I spent so long staring at the organizational spreadsheet that I haven't wanted to look at my own personal puzzle spreadsheet or write supplementary documentation like these posts. I'm also the main contributor to Inkwell Games daily puzzles, with Star Battle, Light and Shadow, and Barred Simple Loop available. You can play the current week at any time, but past archive puzzles require a subscription to access. (and 236 Star Battle / 117 Light and Shadow are currently inaccessible). Keeping up with all of this is tough, so I'm hoping to find some time during upcoming vacations to actually work (haha) through my extensive backlog here. I've been saying that since Islands of Insight, though...

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Puzzles #603 & #604 - Primordial Ooze (Nibunnogo)

Before WPC 2023, I ran a Puzzle Getchu!, a contest themed on Ape Escape. I had intended to queue these puzzles for posting before WPC, but didn't have the time. Better late than never!

The second level is Primordial Ooze, which is a fairly evocative name on its own. I wanted to pick a genre that would force a "blobby" solution layout, and recalled Nibunnogo from some old @pzosdc (account no longer exists) puzzles as a good Nikoli genre to go with. While the example puzzle was quite painless to make due to using 0 and 4, the 5 point contest puzzle was very tough to finagle without circumventing the intended break-in.