Friday, 7 May 2010

Smallest Hardest Part 2






http://puzzlevalves.blogspot.com/2010/05/smallest-hardest.html

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

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






Five puzzles for you today, that's two akaris and three sudoku variants, all of them with their own challenge. hope you all had a good Easter holiday!

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

British Summer Time - That's B*S*T!



Well here in England we have entered British Summer Time, which naturally means it's cold, wet and windy (I prefer winter, it's warmer!) Anyways, while we're freezing over here you guys can settle down and look at these, lovely little gems!

Here's to a good Summer!

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Extra Regions, it's on a whole different level!




Well I've got another new(ish) genre for you today with not one but two puzzles for you to feast your eyes on. To help you the rules for this challenging genre located here... http://puzzlevalves.blogspot.com/2010/01/rules-for-sudoku-variants.html