Showing posts with label LITS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LITS. Show all posts

Monday, 24 December 2018

Puzzle 300: Quattro Stagioni

General Rule: Shade some cells to form a single contiguous shape. The shape doesn't form any 2x2 squares anywhere, even between boundaries. The coloured squares represent windows, the pattern of shaded and unshaded cells in the solid window must be the inverse of the pattern of shaded and unshaded cells in the dashed window of the same colour. The orientation of which stays the same.

  1. Each lettered cell is an island cell, the letter in it indicates the pentomino it is part of.
  2. Each island contains exactly one lettered cell. All unshaded cells in the top-left are part of a pentomino.
  3. Pentominos must be contained completely within the top-left area and don't connect to unshaded cells in other areas.
Top Right: Nanro Signpost
  1. Each area must contain at least one shaded cell.
  2. Numbers in some cells count the shaded cells in that area, however that cell may not be shaded upon completion.
  3. Where two shaded cells connect across a boundary between areas, the number of shaded cells in those areas must be different.
Bottom Left: Large-Squares Tapa
  1. Numbers on some cells indicate the number of consecutive shaded cells around that cell, if there is more than one number then there must be at least one unshaded cell between the shaded regions, "?" is wild and can stand for any number from 1 up to the number of surrounding cells.
  2. Where clues are in large areas, they relate to all cells surrounding that area.
  3. Cells with numbers can never be shaded.
Bottom Right: Easy as LITS
  1. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch.
  2. Letters outside the grid indicate the first tetromino encountered in the corresponding direction.

Monday, 10 September 2018

Puzzle 286: Signpost LITS

Instructions

Theme: Rank and File

Signpost LITS Instructions


Rules: The challenge is to shade four connected cells in each region, subject to the following rules:
  1. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch.
  2. All shaded cells must connect upon completion.
  3. No 2x2 area of shaded cells is allowed.
  4. Some cells include a letter. If the corresponding cell is shaded then the tetromino must match the letter.  

Monday, 6 August 2018

Puzzle 282: Inversed LITS

Instructions

Theme: Centre Square

Inversed LITS Instructions

Rules: The challenge is to shade cells in each region, subject to the following rules:
  1. Each area contains 4 orthogonally connected unshaded cells.
  2. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch vertically or horizontally.
  3. All shaded cells must connect upon completion.
  4. No 2x2 area of shaded cells is allowed.

Monday, 11 June 2018

Puzzle 274: Easy as LITS

Instructions



Theme: Pairing Up

Easy as LITS Instructions

The objective is to shade four connected cells in each shape, subject to the following rules:
  1. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch.
  2. All shaded cells must connect horizontally or vertically upon completion.
  3. No 2x2 area of shaded cells is allowed.
  4. Letters outside the grid indicate the first tetromino encountered in the corresponding direction.




Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Puzzle 270: LITS Pathways

Instructions

Theme: Many Paths

LITS Pathways Instructions



Rules: The challenge is to shade four connected cells in each shape, subject to the following rules:
  1. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch.
  2. All shaded cells must connect upon completion.
  3. No 2x2 area of shaded cells is allowed.
  4. Some shapes exit the grid and re-enter via pathways. These areas are considered the same shape but no part of the tetromino can be on the pathway.


Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Puzzle 231: Barrier LITS

Instructions

Theme: Hidden 3x3 boxes

Barrier LITS Instructions



Rules: The challenge is to shade four connected cells in each region, subject to the following rules:
  1. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch.
  2. All shaded cells must connect upon completion.
  3. No 2x2 area of shaded cells is allowed.
  4. No tetromino is allowed to cross an internal wall.


Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Puzzle 215: LITS Quad


Rules: The challenge is to paint four areas of four connected cells in each shape, subject to the following rules:
  1. No two of the same tetrominos, including rotations / reflections are allowed to touch.
  2. All painted cells must connect upon completion.
  3. No 2x2 area of painted cells is allowed.
  4. Each area contains four separate tetrominos, one of each of the four allowed LITS tetrominos.