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Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles
🕑 Added 2021-11-23 18:53:18 +0000 UTCAs mentioned in last night's video, Simon has been trying some of the Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles from the Discord server - and they're brilliant. [The daily puzzle can be found in the channel "daily-pencil-puzzle-discussion" and these slightly older puzzles are in the channel "daily-pencil-puzzles".]
In this video, he goes through the first 8 puzzles and talks through some of the logic (as well as trying to do them quickly).
1. Heyawake by jovi_al
https://puzz.link/p?heyawake/10/10/8qhk78egs0o000000000vm08v7vgvvvv00vv2312131112h355
Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Numbered regions must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. A line of consecutive unshaded cells may not cross more than one bold border.
2. Tasquare by shye
https://puzz.link/p?tasquare/10/10/.i.h.h.i.h.h1i2i4h2i5i1z1i6iah2ibi9h.h.i.h.h.i./
Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a square and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clued cells cannot be shaded, and represent the total size of the shaded squares that share an edge with the clue. If a clue has no number, it must share an edge with at least one shaded square.
3. Look Air by jovi_al
https://puzz.link/p?lookair/10/10/3a1k3c1a1f1b0b5d1g2f2g3d5b1b3f1a0c3k1a3
Shade some cells such that all connected regions of shaded cells form perfect squares. Two squares of the same size may not have a direct view of one another (i.e. have a straight line of unshaded cells in between them) but may be in the same row or column. A number in the grid represents the number of shaded cells that share at least one edge with it (including itself).
4. Pentominous by Tyrgannus
Separate the grid into sets of five orthogonally connected cells called pentominoes. Pentominoes of the same type cannot share an edge orthogonally, but they can touch diagonally. Letter clues indicate which type of pentominoes the clue resides in. Not all pentominoes are clued and multiple letter clues may belong to the same pentomino.
5. Akari by Freddie Hand
https://puzz.link/p?akari/10/10/gabh.m.h6avbtcv6b.m.jbd
Place lights in some cells so that every cell is illuminated. Lights illuminate the cell they’re in as well as all cells seen in a straight line horizontally or vertically, not obstructed by a black cell. Lights may not illuminate each other. Clues represent the number of lights in the cells orthogonally adjacent to it.
6. Snake Egg by Eric Fox
Shade some cells to form a non-intersecting path which does not touch itself orthogonally, but may touch itself diagonally. Circles mark the ends of the path. Exactly one orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells must exist of each size from the range given outside the grid (1-7). Cells with numbers cannot be shaded, and represent the size of the area they’re in.
7. Simple Loop by shye
https://puzz.link/p?simpleloop/10/10/g11g200344o0081gg1s7
Draw a single non-intersecting loop through the centers of all empty cells.
8. Hashi by jovi_al
https://puzz.link/p?hashi/9/9/h1g3g1q3g2i1g1o3i.i3o2g3i3g3q3g3g1h
Connect pairs of circles horizontally or vertically so that all circles form one connected network. Connections may not cross one another, and any pair of circles may have at most two connections between them. Numbers in circles represent the amount of connections they’re a part of (an unnumbered circle can have any number of connections, so long as it is connected).
Comments
Got through all of these on my own, with times ranging between 2 and 7 minutes apiece. Really happy for the snake egg puzzle. I think one of the first videos I watched on the channel was a snake egg puzzle that I printed out and solved by hand.
