Friday Puzzles #103
This week, two puzzle types which I believe have never featured on this blog before – oh the novelty! Moreover, since this is the case, they are somewhat instructional in style – seasoned solvers will have no problems with these at all. The LITS is actually in my opinion a puzzle which solves well, and anyone who reads British newspapers will have seen mini shikaku puzzles in print – not that I’d argue that this is example is too much better than one of those, but there we go. Enjoy!
#129 Shikaku – rated easy
#130 LITS – rated easy
All puzzles © Tom Collyer 2009-11
Thomas Collyer
06 May 2011 00:37
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Jonah
I like what you did with the 2×3 boxes in the LITS puzzle, but it’s too bad that connectivity of the tetrominoes never mattered.
06 May 2011, 01:44
mathgrant
Speaking as an LITS veteran, I echo everything Jonah said.
Speaking as a Nikoli veteran, I really don’t think this puzzle can be considered easy except by the standards of an LITS veteran. I think it’d be an upper-tier Medium or lower-tier Hard by Nikoli’s standards, actually. laughs Not to say it was a bad puzzle, I mean!
06 May 2011, 23:43
Thomas Collyer
Seriously? That’s the 3rd LITS I’ve ever made – I was literally just playing with the first ideas that came to mind when pencilling in the regions. You can tell I was just fiddling around because the shikaku is so mundane. The other 2 LITS I’ve made I’m confident have far more to them than these though – I was certainly pleased with the one I did for my nikoli selection last October…
07 May 2011, 00:33
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