Sexy Chess Puzzle (because you rook so wovely tonight)

Haha! I managed to get squeeze another one out this month! (If you didn't realise, the other one was an April Fools Puzzle... the answer being 'they all start with 'jelly' '). But no jokes here! This is an actual puzzle!

Welcome to Chess Solitaire! 

1.Choose a piece
2. Use it to take another piece. It must be of an opposing colour. (all pieces move as they would in chess, the pawns can only move one place diagonally).
3. Once you take a piece... you become it! So if you take a white knight with a black bishop, your next move is as a white knight kay? Then you could only take black pieces... and so on.
4. You cannot AT ANY POINT move across the centre square. No move may pass over it. (e.g. the black rook on the centre left can't take the white rook centre right.
5. Try and clear as many pieces as you can. If you are unable to move, you end your game. Try and clear all the pieces and use your last piece to land in the centre square (the ONLY time you are allowed to do this). 

Good luck!

Jak -- ridleyismyguru@hotmail.co.uk (solutions, questions, ideas, suggestions)

Jelly Puzzle!

What letters can be placed to make words involving our favorite dessert?

1. Jelly???
2. Jelly????
3. Jelly?????

Have fun!

ridleyismyguru@hotmail.co.uk

A challenge for all sailors!

Otto Janko categorises puzzles in terms of their difficulty/time taken to solve and their size, but has failed to produce a system that organises puzzles by a quality known as their 'cuteness' (a term coined by ZM). This, puzzle I decree as 'cute' with a factor 6 out of 10. lol. 

if you want to send anything to ridleyismyguru@hotmail.co.uk for a verification I'll reply but if you get it, you've got it.

Jak (not dead)

All hail Otto! He has brought you Masyu!
The amazing intellectual playground known as www.janko.at have now completed plans to launch an interactive Masyu applet online for the end of the month. To celebrate I have tried to make an OTTO tribute puzzle. It was almost perfect with the corresponding letters being made out of opposite colours but I couldn't quite squeeze a white circle in the top right 'T'. Nonetheless it is a devious puzzle which is still worthy of the OTTO brand even if i do say so myself. You can find out how to play it by clicking the 'masyu' tab at the bottom.

But basically. Make a single loop with no junctions/branches in the grid so that it passes through every circle. The single continuous line must make a 90 degree turn on black circles but must not do so before or after these circles in the path. As for the white circles, the path must pass straight through them and make a 90 degree turn before and/or after these circles in the path. No diagonal lines please.

ridleyismyguru@hotmail.co.uk

Jak 

A polynomious! (oh I did that already didn't I?)

See Puzzle 1 for the rules or click the 'nomious' tag at the bottom of this post. A quick overview of the rules is to fill this 10x10 grid with exactly one number per cell so that every number is part of a polyomino formed out of that many cells (and all the cells in the polyomino must contain the same number too). Just to mention again, a polyomino is any cell region that can be made from a monomino (a single cell) and adding cells that share an edge with this cell (to make a domino) and then adding cells in this way to any cell in the shape in the same way to make bigger polyominoes. 

Don't worry folks, I haven't run out of ideas. I just fancied a bigger bite of the delicious polynomious logic pie to warm me up for few more cryptoids for you all to squirm over and some other 'little nasties'. Logic puzzles are fun to make and solve but they don't really torture people do they? Watch this space. Bye for now

ridleyismyguru@hotmail.co.uk    

Use your reasoning to correctly place pillars in this house's plan in !Heyawake!

Yet another delicious logic puzzle from Nikoli! Here you have the bird's eye view plan of a building. It is your job as architect to decide where the support pillars will go. Fill these pillars in as black squares according to the following constraints...
1)There are rectangular rooms marked out with black lines. Some rooms contain numbers in their top right corner. They are the desired amount of pillars for that room. There MUST be exactly that many pillars (black squares) in those rooms with numbers.
2)A pillar cannot share a side with another pillar. A pillar may only be diagonally adjacent with pillars if they are to be adjacent at all.
3)The pillars may not be placed so that different areas of the building are cut off from up each other. You must be able to start from any non-pillar square and arrive at any other by means of moving up,down,left and right only (not diagonally) without 'walking through' a pillar.
4)The building must be of sound structure. There cannot be a rectangle of non pillar squares passing through three separate rooms (so if a region of non-pillar squares begins in one room, it is allowed to pass completely through a second room in that direction but cannot enter a third room, There must be a pillar in the third room before another non-pillar square can be entered). 
 
ridleyismyguru@hotmail.co.uk

(gracious thanks to www.vexuspuzzle.com for the graphic) 

Navigrid for the New Year

As for the Christmas puzzle... two people have got the right answer so far and I did say that there would be a total of three winners so I'll leave it open for a while longer. The winners already know who they are but will be formally praised on WAS? very soon. 

Before I begin I would like to say that this post grabbed the attention of the original developer of the Navigrid (originally Vexus) who quite amazingly offered to provide the graphic for the particular puzzle I constructed! Check out www.vexuspuzzle.com if you like this puzzle!

Anyway , this thing above looks nasty but there's not much to solving your basic navigrid...

Rules
1. There are nine white squares in which the numbers from 1 to 9 must be placed, one to each square.

2. The eight arrows also must be associated to each number (except the number 9) so that consecutive numbers are reached by following the arrow. So if you associated a (one up, one left) arrow to the number six, you would have to come to a number seven by means of either moving one square up and then one square left   or   by moving one square left and then one square up.

3. By giving the digits from 1-9 exactly one arrow, the resulting trail should go from 1 to 9 in correct numerical order (1 then 2 then 3...), WITHOUT ENTERING A BLACK SQUARE AT ANY POINT.

4. The arrows with a 2 just mean that you must travel 2 SQUARES in that direction (Easy eh? Now guess what the 1's mean!).

5. Although you are allowed to rearrange the order in which the directions are taken when there are two arrows compound into one symbol (as stated in step 2), you are not allowed to break up a '2' arrow into two steps.

e.g. The (2 down, one right) arrow can be used as a (one right, 2 down) arrow but not a (one down, one right, one down) arrow. (Although they all end up in the same place, this method of avoiding entering a black square is not permitted).

Enjoy! and Happy New Year!

Competition Puzzle
Since the death of Who-Doku? I was left a puzzle short of ten, which is a shame so I cobbled this little lateral thing up out of nothing which will act as a half decent competition and give everyone else a chance to solve before the puzzle pros can. It's a LATERAL puzzle so it should be a bit of a stinker hopefully...

Christmas Puzzle

I'm extremely forgetful. I have a password which six vowels and ten consonants... that much I can remember about it apart from the fact that even If I get it wrong and type the password into the password field and get this...

****************
I will always be able to remember what it is.

What is my password?

Winners (let's say three) get a puzzle dedication or get to choose what sort of puzzles I construct next.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! (I'll see you all in the new year) 

Light Up! (with a very effective way of showing that I'm no plagiarist)

As promised, a Lights Up! puzzle with a nice aesthetic going on there. It seems an appropriate sort of puzzle with Christmas just around the corner.
Anyway...
The rules
--The goal is to light up every white square in the grid
--In any white square you can draw a light bulb (I usually just draw a circle or my poor illustration of a bulb). Any bulb drawn will automatically light up the square it is in, as well as every square in that row and column unless there is a black square in that row or column (in that case, the bulb lights up every white square until it reaches the black square).
--A bulb is not allowed to light up another bulb, so a bulb can only be in the same row/column as another if there is a black square separating them.
--The numbers in the black squares tell you how many bulbs there must be in the surrounding 8 cells altogether (no bulbs in black squares).
--If there is no number, there are no restrictions on how many bulbs that can be placed as long as no other rules are broken.

That's it... enjoy!

Jak 

Made a mess of something called Who-Doku? It doesn't work at all when I started making stuff up as I went along. I might try it again someday.

Sadly yours.

Jak *sniff*