Friday 7 May 2010
Smallest Hardest Part 1
A - ?
A - E
Well time to the ball rolling again, I suppose. Now, many puzzle makers take delight in making absolutely massive puzzles into which they put all that difficult logic. I however, this week have decided to do the opposite. Instead of massive puzzles, I have introduced smallest hardest featuring eight of the hardest 5x5 puzzles known to man! The first Easy as ABC even has another challenge as you may have guessed. The value represented by ? is the lagest value to yield the puzzle with a unique solution, all you have to do then is solve it!
http://puzzlevalves.blogspot.com/2010/05/smallest-hardest-part-2.html
A - E
Well time to the ball rolling again, I suppose. Now, many puzzle makers take delight in making absolutely massive puzzles into which they put all that difficult logic. I however, this week have decided to do the opposite. Instead of massive puzzles, I have introduced smallest hardest featuring eight of the hardest 5x5 puzzles known to man! The first Easy as ABC even has another challenge as you may have guessed. The value represented by ? is the lagest value to yield the puzzle with a unique solution, all you have to do then is solve it!
http://puzzlevalves.blogspot.com/2010/05/smallest-hardest-part-2.html
Friday 23 April 2010
The Ye Gods of Interviews
Why Ye Gods I hear you say? Well it's simple really, who hasn't at any time gone into an inverview at any time and thought "Ye Gods!" There you go!
Moving swiftly on! A few special puzzles here for you today, in order a nurikabe, a heyawake, a fillonimo and an extra regions sudoku, all with their own unique concept! The extra regions having both the traditional 3x3 grids and it's own "colour coded" areas!
Author's note, The symetry down the one diagonal of the nurikabe is entirely accidental originally i just went for the 12345 series down the digonals but it wasn't until I'd finished I noticed it was diagonally symetrical, so I suppose I can't claim that one!
Friday 16 April 2010
Woop, Summer at last!
A-F
Ok Folks, got some more puzzles for you all. The most are self explanitary, a kuromasu, a 16x16 Irregular, an extra-regions, and one easy as ABC (A-F), in that order!
I'll just say this for the extra-regions, there are only 4 extra-regions, not 9, this was the only way I could illustrate it though!
Saturday 10 April 2010
Stepping Up
Wednesday 31 March 2010
British Summer Time - That's B*S*T!
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Extra Regions, it's on a whole different level!
Monday 29 March 2010
A couple for the road
Friday 19 March 2010
Get the ball rolling again
Thursday 18 March 2010
Easy as ACEDB
Two new puzzles - Kuromasu and Akari
Rules for Akari
Rules for Akari are as follows,
Place light bulbs in the grid so that all squares are lit up.
Light bulbs occupy one square and light up all squares in a horizontal and vertical direction, as well as themselves.
No light bulbs are in another light bulb's "line of sight"
The numbers dictate how many light bulbs there are touching horizontally or vertically the black square the number is on.
Place light bulbs in the grid so that all squares are lit up.
Light bulbs occupy one square and light up all squares in a horizontal and vertical direction, as well as themselves.
No light bulbs are in another light bulb's "line of sight"
The numbers dictate how many light bulbs there are touching horizontally or vertically the black square the number is on.
Rules for Kuromasu
Saturday 13 March 2010
The grand finale- Masyu Madness
Friday 12 March 2010
Fillomino - Friday's Fiendish Fiesta
Thursday 11 March 2010
Nurikabe - Now in bite size!
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Master of the third trail - Heyawake
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Round Two - LITS
Monday 8 March 2010
25x25 Series - Sudoku
Friday 26 February 2010
And The Winner Is...
Well, here it is, the results to the first ever Puzzle Valves Challenge. Our winner for the chance to have his puzzle featured on this very blog is.... Fred Coughlin of PuzzlePicnic fame! Proving it can be done on a totally symetrical 7x7 masyu which meets all the requirements and more! Congratulations and stay tuned for more challenges!
4 Puzzles For The Price of 1
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Bill Please!
Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?
LITS, the windmill
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