Broken Sign Blog
#066: Twilight Cave for Black-Out Friday
25 November 2022
For the second time, The Griddle has put together a pack of shading puzzles for Black(-Out) Friday to encourage people to spend their day puzzling instead of shopping. This year, David asked other authors to contribute puzzles, and I made this Cave variant. Do check out the full PDF over on The Griddle, the puzzles are all fantastic.
#065: Lohkous
24 November 2022
I’ve been looking into Lohkous lately, one of Hempuli’s many genres. While it has the potential for some extremely cursed puzzles, it also has a lot of depth for interesting logic. Here’s a small puzzle I’m quite fond of.
#064: Remembered Length
17 November 2022
Okay fine, here’s a normal Remembered Length puzzle. It is, however, quite a hard puzzle. You might have to reach pretty deep into your loop theory toolbox to solve this without bashing.
#063: Remembered Length
15 November 2022
This is the second of two weird Remembered Length puzzles I made. I recommend solving the other one first.
#062: Remembered Length
15 November 2022
After sharing yesterday’s Forgetful Loop, I was made aware of Remembered Length. It looks like a really cool genre, so I tried making some puzzles in it. Unfortunately, I seem to be incapable of making a normal puzzle in an existing genre, so I made two gimmicky ones.
#061: Forgetful Loop
14 November 2022
The Forgetful variant I’ve used with Double Back and Rail Pool is really interesting, and it occurred to me that it would probably make a decent genre on its own.
#060: Ivy
11 November 2022
Let’s wrap up this initial batch of Ivy puzzles with a tough one to explore the other end of the available range of difficulties and deductions. There is no bashing required to solve this.
#059: Ivy (Triangular)
11 November 2022
I’m often drawn to experimenting with genres on other grids, and the triangular grid actually turns out to be a great fit for Ivy, both in terms of logic and aesthetics. In another universe, where the genre didn’t originate with Corey’s prompt, this might have been the default grid for the genre.
#058: Ivy
11 November 2022
This one is a little gimmicky and doesn’t have the most interesting solution, but I felt that I needed to try making at least one these. I’ve tried to make a more interesting version of this a couple times, but it always ended up being more of the same.
#057: Ivy
11 November 2022
This was the first Ivy puzzle I made. In terms of difficulty, I think it’s also a good introduction to the genre, but you’ll find that the solution has a property that makes it not ideal as an example puzzle.