(20.) No U-Turn Masyu

Here’s a Masyu variation. If you want to, you can move the white pearl in the top-left corner to make the grid fully antisymmetric, but I like it better with the defect.

Regular No U-Turn Masyu rules.

(19.) Diagonal Fillomino

Apologies for the dry spell. I haven’t had much inspiration, or will, to make puzzles lately, until I thought of this variation. I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

Getting used to this variant will probably take a bit of time. I recommend starting with the example puzzle on the rules page, I like how it turned out.

Regular Diagonal Fillomino rules.

(17., 18.) Sudoku

Here’s two easy Sudoku puzzles I made as Christmas presents.

Regular Sudoku rules.

(16.) Battleships

Whoops, it’s been a couple of weeks since the last post. Oh well.

To start off the new year (it’s midnight right now 38 minutes ago here in Finland), here’s a Battleships puzzle. It’s the first one I’ve made, and I’m not good at all with the genre… regardless, I think the puzzle turned out well with a strong theme, and it isn’t easy, either.

Regular Battleship rules, with the standard fleet.

EDIT: The puzzle was broken, it should be fixed now. Not a very promising start to this year :^(

(15.) Akari

This is the first Akari I’ve made. I think it turned out pretty good.

Regular Akari rules.

(13., 14.) Slitherlink

Gimmick puzzles! Here’s a pair of not-entirely-easy Slitherlinks.

If you cut the first Slitherlink into four 5×5-sized quadrants, then inflate each quadrant (each pair of adjacent cells will be pushed one cell apart, so the inflated quadrant takes up a 9×9 square), and then interleave them back together, you get another valid puzzle, the second Slitherlink.

Regular Slitherlink rules.

EDIT: I somehow completely forgot that Slitherlink uses a dot grid, not dashed lines. Fixed.

(12.) Fillomino

Yesterday (6.12.2014, as we’d write the date) was Independence Day in Finland. I couldn’t quite get this puzzle done in time, so posting it a day later will have to do.

Regular Fillomino rules.

(11.) Tapa

Here’s an almost-1-3-antisymmetric Tapa. Not my finest work, I’ll admit, as this one ended up being easier than intended, and I always end up crowding the edges of the grid with clues. Oh well.

Regular Tapa rules.

(10.) Regional Yajilin

Here’s a Regional Yajilin. You should expect a couple of tricky steps.

Regular Regional Yajilin rules.

(9.) Pentominous

Here’s a Pentominous puzzle. I tried to have the clues spell out dictionary words, but only one out of four survived to the finished puzzle. Despite of that, I’m happy with the puzzle.

Standard Pentominous rules. See the rules page for a bank of pentominoes.