Puzzle #492 - Rever Theory (Heyawake)

This Heyawake puzzle I made for Rever contains no river theory. It does contain a river, though.

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What did you really expect from the Witness Randomizer community?

Also, Rever's initial thought for a request was to have someone unrelated come up with a prompt that we would both make a puzzle for, to see the divergence - that never materialized and I had this idea (and knew Rever had made a number of Heyawake puzzles) and while it's not what Rever would have ever come up with as a request, the puzzle was very much appreciated.

Puzzle #491 - Two For One Special (Tapa+Creek)

Parker (or Mr_ParK3r2) really likes a couple of puzzle types in particular. Creek because it's simple and fun, and Tapa because... I don't actually know why but who doesn't like a good Tapa puzzle? So I made a puzzle with both Creek and Tapa clues that must obey all rules of both puzzles. There's a couple things that this implies that I ensured were not required for the solve as I don't think Parker knows those puzzling tricks, so this one is definitely on the easier side.

Full rules: Shade some cells so all shaded cells are connected and all unshaded cells are connected. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded. Clues inside cell centers give the lengths of all groups of shaded cells in the up to 8 cells surrounding them, and may not be shaded. Clues on vertices give the number of shaded cells in the up to 4 cells touching that vertex.

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Puzzle #490 - Baba is Akari

KF requested a Baba Akari. This I could do very easily. I added some extra walls to part of the puzzle to extend the logic a bit farther, as large open spaces can only do so much without being interrupted in Akari. It's Baba, what more do you want?

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edit: link added, because I missed that until Menderbug pointed it out

Puzzle #489 - Is it a Sloop? (Yajilin)

Evandar (who did the best of the Witness Randomizer community on Yajilin Yacht) requested at first a 10x10 Yajilin with the minimum number of clues. I shared an existing 3 clue as there are a couple of those, and got a second request of a "mostly 0 Yajilin". This wasn't exactly what Evandar requested, but he liked the trick I put in this puzzle so I count it as a win.

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Puzzle #488 - Dragon! (LITS)

I made this LITS puzzle for ADGOD, who had the most viewed replay during the contest for Yajilin 13. The story here is after a poor solve on puzzle 11, he thought he was out of contention for any good placement (which turned out to not be true) but ended up drawing some dragons. Since the solution check only cares about the loop... well, you get some fun pictures. Most didn't save into the replays but this one did.

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The first request was a Double Choco with a dragon-shaped layout, but that proved pretty unworkable. This might not be dragon shaped, but I told ADGOD to trust me and he was very pleased with this one in the end.

Puzzle #487 - Qurve Data

Also on the topic of Secret Solver, Eric Fox got a very delayed puzzle. So I whipped up a consolation Curve Data puzzle so he'd at least have something personalized to solve. I like making Curve Data now. Turns out all it really took was an understanding of how they work.

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Puzzle #486 - Masyu Rings

Funny story about this puzzle.

So for Secret Solver, I was assigned dylanamite. I made my set - SO MANY BEES - and sent it off around Christmas, as I always have. On the 28th, dylanamite messages me asking if I make logic puzzles, which duh of course I do (at this point he does not yet know I made SO MANY BEES). He asked if I had any spare puzzles, and at the time I did not. He said it was fine, but 9 minutes later I sent him this Masyu puzzle. He didn't find out I created SO MANY BEES until weeks later.

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Puzzle #485 - 2x2 Masyu

On Puzzlers Club, 2x2 Masyu is a bit of a meme. One of the times it came up I decided to take it a bit less literally - what if you drew a loop of 2x2s instead?

Draw a 2-cell wide loop through some cells and all circles. A black circle must be at a point where the loop turns, the loop must continue for 2 cells in both directions. A white circle must be at a point where the loop does not turn, and the loop must turn immediately on at least one side.

These rules are a bit hard to parse from just a description, so here's an example of 2 things that are the minimal extension from a circle, and 3 things that are not okay.

The black circle on the left contains a turn and extends twice in both directions. The black circle on the top is incorrect because it does not extend two cells from the turn in either direction.

The white circle on the left is correct because it doesn't turn on the circle. The middle white circle is incorrect because it turns on the circle. The rightmost white circle is incorrect because it doesn't turn at the first opportunity on one side.

With that out of the way, here's the puzzle!

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Puzzle #484 - Masyu

I made this Masyu puzzle even longer ago than yesterday's Kurodoko puzzle. I originally planned to submit it to GMPuzzles, but between the posting freeze they went on and my own lazily on typesetting it to their format, as well as wanting this puzzle to see the light of day sooner rather than later (ironic, given the 8-9 month delay) I elected to queue it up here.

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Puzzle #483 - Just 4 Fun (Kurodoko)

I'm back.

Sorry about the 5 months of inactivity, I had always intended to post my modest backlog of puzzles after Secret Solver (you'll see why) and also wanted to have a small series leading up to puzzle 500. And as part of that leadup, I had wanted to share the puzzles I made for friends who participated in Yajilin Yacht. Yes. That Yajilin Yacht from July/August last year. I kept getting sidetracked but I'd already made the plan and I elected to stick to it, because how long would making 5 more puzzles take? How long would making 3 more take? Apparently, the answer was months and months. Sorry guys, but I did at least get everything out, and now it's time to catch up.

I made this Kurodoko puzzle quite a while ago to show a fun deduction with 4s, and it seems like a pretty good puzzle to start back on.

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