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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 95th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1 cell-wide path) in the grid whose head and tail are given by circled cells. The snake can touch itself diagonally, but cannot touch itself orthogonally and cannot pass through any blackened cells. The given numbers show the total number of cells are used by the snake in the grid along the indicated directions. (Numbers see to the border of the grid.)

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The answer to the example is “13,2”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:45, Master = 9:00, Expert = 18:00

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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 94th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Add letters to some empty cells to make a snake that doesn’t touch itself, not even diagonally. The snake’s head and tail are indicated by circles. The snake is made out of spelled out numbers, and some letters are given that must be part of the snake. Each numbered cell indicates the total sum of the distinct words that touch that cell, including diagonally. Not all words need to be used, but no word is used more than once.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The answer to the example is “3,31”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:30, Master = 7:30, Expert = 14:00

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Theme: First Born Eggs

Author/Opus: This is the 93rd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1 cell-wide path) in the grid whose head and tail are given by circled cells. The snake can touch itself diagonally, but cannot touch itself orthogonally or revisit any square. Besides the snake, the remaining cells must form exactly nine white areas, one of each size from 1 to 9. Numbers in the grid must be part of white areas of the indicated size.
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Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:15, Master = 6:00, Expert = 12:00

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Theme: Quadrilaterals

Author/Opus: This is the 92nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1-cell wide path) from one dot to the other by moving horizontally or vertically between adjacent squares. The snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. All highlighted regions must be visited by the snake, and may be re-entered. If two or more highlighted regions have the same shape and orientation, then how the path passes through those shapes must be identical.

Answer String: Enter the number of cells used by each snake segment from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Use both digits for any two-digit number. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:00, Master = 3:45, Expert = 7:30

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 91st puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw a snake (a 1-cell wide path) out of pentominoes that doesn’t touch itself, not even diagonally. The head and tail of the snake are given by circles. Pentominoes can be rotated/reflected, and can be used more than once. The letters outside the grid represent the first pentomino visible in the corresponding direction.

Answer String: Enter the number of cells used by each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The example has the answer “211,231”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:30, Master = 3:30, Expert = 7:00

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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic

Author/Opus: This is the 90th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Draw one or more horizontal or vertical lines from each numbered cell to cover that number of empty cells. Lines cannot cross other lines or other numbered cells. The remaining empty cells are occupied by a snake (a 1-cell wide path) whose head and tail are given. The snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally.

Answer String: Enter the number of cells used by each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. The example has the answer “2,3”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:15, Master = 3:00, Expert = 6:00

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Theme: Chinese Whispers

Author/Opus: This is the 76th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Variation of Nurikabe. Shade some empty cells black so that the grid is divided into white areas, each containing at most one number. A white area with a number must have the same area in cells as that number. White areas may only touch diagonally. All shaded cells must be connected with each other, but no 2×2 group of cells can be entirely shaded. Also, all shaded cells must be divisible into snakes with the heads and tails given in the grid. Snakes cannot cross each other.

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Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. This example has the key “7,32,31”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:45, Master = 3:30, Expert = 7:00

Solution: PDF

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Theme: Odds

Author/Opus: This is the 75th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Variation of Nurikabe. Shade some empty cells black so that the grid is divided into white areas, each containing at most one number. A white area with a number must have the same area in cells as that number. White areas may only touch diagonally. All shaded cells must be connected with each other, but no 2×2 group of cells can be entirely shaded. Also, all shaded cells must be divisible into snakes with the heads and tails given in the grid. Snakes cannot cross each other.

Also, see this example:

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. This example has the key “7,32,31”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:00, Master = 4:00, Expert = 8:00

Solution: PDF

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Theme: 1, 2, 3

Author/Opus: This is the 74th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.

Rules: Variation of Nurikabe. Shade some empty cells black so that the grid is divided into white areas, each containing at most one number. A white area with a number must have the same area in cells as that number. White areas may only touch diagonally. All shaded cells must be connected with each other, but no 2×2 group of cells can be entirely shaded. Also, all shaded cells must be divisible into snakes with the heads and tails given in the grid. Snakes cannot cross each other.

Also, see this example:

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma. This example has the key “7,32,31”.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:15, Master = 3:15, Expert = 6:30

Solution: PDF

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Theme: TYCG (Thank You, Chris Green) — this is a Patron Puzzle reward.

Author/Opus: This is the 79th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.

Rules: Find a path from one dot to the other by moving horizontally or vertically between adjacent squares. The path cannot touch itself, even diagonally. All highlighted regions must be visited by the path, and may be re-entered. If two or more highlighted regions have the same shape and orientation, then how the path passes through those shapes must be identical. Or see here.

Answer String: Enter the length in cells of the horizontal path segments from left to right in the marked rows, starting at the top. If the path only has vertical segments in the marked row, enter 0. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:15, Master = 6:00, Expert = 12:00

Solution: PDF