Today Simon turns again to the Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles published on the channel "Daily Pencil Puzzle Discussion" on the Cracking The Cryptic Fan Discord server. This channel publishes one new puzzle every day and they are an absolute treat. These puzzles have been recommended to us as the best of the last few months!
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Puzzle 1: Uso-One by shye
Example: https://tinyurl.com/5n77fy8t
Main Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/33jk5zmt
Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clued cells cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in the (up to) four cells orthogonal to the clue. However, exactly one clue in each region is incorrect.
Puzzle 2: Juosan by jovi_al
Example: https://tinyurl.com/asatajuz
Main Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/2p8xd7u8
Rules: Place a horizontal or vertical line into each cell, traveling from edge to edge. A number in a region represents how many horizontal or vertical lines it contains - whichever there’s at least half of. There may not exist a run of three consecutive cells containing parallel distinct lines anywhere in the grid.
Puzzle 3: Battleships by Tyrgannus
Example: https://tinyurl.com/2p8uy8wz
Main Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/rr2j8xyr
Rules: Place the given fleet of ships into the grid so that no two ships are touching, not even diagonally. Rotating ships is permitted. A clue outside the grid indicates the number of cells in the corresponding row or column that are occupied by ships. Cells with waves cannot be occupied by a ship. A given ship segment must be used as the part of a ship that its shape represents.
Puzzle 4: Summon by Freddie Hand
Example: https://tinyurl.com/3rx759xx
Main Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/yckzhkfa
Rules: Enter the given set of digits into the grid, so that each digit appears exactly once in each region. Cells with equal digits cannot touch each other, not even diagonally. Digits in adjacent cells within a row or column form multi-digit numbers, read from left to right or from top to bottom; digits without neighbours form single-digit numbers. The numbers outside the grid indicate the sum of all such multi-digit and single-digit numbers in the respective row or column.
Puzzle 5: Square Jam by Eric Fox
Example: https://tinyurl.com/2s446y9d
Main Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/msx7j4bd
Rules: Divide the grid into square regions of orthogonally connected cells. A number indicates the side length of the square it’s in. Region borders may not form any four-way intersections.
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