Friday Puzzles #154

So I've apparently lost my faith in all of humanity, and most of my all my own self-esteem.  I wanted to spend ages knocking up a really nice yajilin puzzle, and instead this one simply fell out in 15 minutes. Enjoy.

    #185 Yajilin – rated medium

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Friday Puzzles #153

Every now and again I worry that I might be using up all the possibilities for Masyu with twisted symmetry, but there always seems to be one more.  Not the most aesthetically pleasing, or indeed challenging puzzle, but one has to keep one's hand in.  Enjoy!

    #184 Masyu – rated easy

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Friday Puzzles #152

More twodoku this week.  This one is probably undercooked in terms of difficulty - I'm fairly sure I can take out a couple of givens, but it will have to do.  There's certainly a little more interest provided with the irregular grid.  Enjoy!

    #183 Twodoku – rated medium

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Friday Puzzles #151

Delayed, I'm afraid, until Sunday.  I was toying with the idea of putting out something old, or perhaps something that may or may not end up being used for the UKPA Open - but I think the safest bet is to simply wait until I can actually put out something new.  Sorry!

EDIT: better late than never.  Here's a Nurikabe which will hopefully have a couple of head scratching moments.  Enjoy!

    #182 Nurikabe – rated easy

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Friday Puzzles #150

Well it's the last Friday of Lent, and writing as I have been - from waaay back in the past - this week's puzzle suddenly seems something of an anti-climax. The theme isn't quite perfect and it's not a hugely challenging puzzle either. Mind you, I've never been one for milestones in terms of week numbers, so perhaps I'll do something better for the three year thing coming up. Enjoy!

EDIT: No, nothing's broken with the puzzle this time round, but I have to raise two points.  First blogger have decided to suck harder than a Texan trying to retrieve a golfball stuck in a hosepipe and have apparently ballsed up the commenting "feature".  Ever since google decided to change its privacy policy, all sorts of shitty little bugs have been rearing their ugly heads with the service.  Even before that, they couldn't get something simple like putting time-stamps on the comments in the correct time zone.  I can only hope the reason for the current comment downtime is they are fixing this.

Anyhow, blogger may provide they provide a free service, but so do many others without causing me the need to rant.  And where better to rant than into the vast vacuums of tinternet.

Second point.  Lent doesn't end on Good Friday (thanks pub quiz at The Pilgrim) and so this leaves me in something of a pickle for next week.  I'll think of something, I'm sure.

    #181 Nurikabe – rated easy

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