21.05.2020, 20:34
Inspiration for the puzzles came (among other places) from Silke Berendes' Round for the 24HPC 2019 and the 123Go Round of WPC 2017.
It was surprisingly difficult to find suitable puzzle types for some letters. While there are unreasonably many types beginning with Y, for example, there is almost no puzzle that begins with an O, apart from Oasis and Offspring. As a result of the alphabet theme, the set included a few less popular types, but I think that all of them have a lot of potential and I would be happy to see more of those uncommon puzzles sometime
Inspiration for Islands, Offspring and Unequal Lengths Maze came from the mentioned WPC round. Japanese Railway is inspired by the fantastic set in Toketa Vol.7. Quadro Tapa is inspired by this puzzle, which uses all 15 possible patterns: https://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/2017/12/t...as-snyder/.
Apperently it is also known as "Different Tapa" but I am not aware of more puzzles with this variant rule. I think the 2x2 areas add enough to the puzzle to make some more interesting puzzles, maybe someone will get inspired to write some?
Thanks again to everyone for taking part, I hope you enjoyed the puzzles
It was surprisingly difficult to find suitable puzzle types for some letters. While there are unreasonably many types beginning with Y, for example, there is almost no puzzle that begins with an O, apart from Oasis and Offspring. As a result of the alphabet theme, the set included a few less popular types, but I think that all of them have a lot of potential and I would be happy to see more of those uncommon puzzles sometime
Inspiration for Islands, Offspring and Unequal Lengths Maze came from the mentioned WPC round. Japanese Railway is inspired by the fantastic set in Toketa Vol.7. Quadro Tapa is inspired by this puzzle, which uses all 15 possible patterns: https://www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/2017/12/t...as-snyder/.
Apperently it is also known as "Different Tapa" but I am not aware of more puzzles with this variant rule. I think the 2x2 areas add enough to the puzzle to make some more interesting puzzles, maybe someone will get inspired to write some?
Thanks again to everyone for taking part, I hope you enjoyed the puzzles