Hi Folks! Here's another variety puzzle for you, made for the bewilderingly stream but now available for you lovely people. Tried to keep the cluing terse and simple, but still interesting, with a nice and gentle theme. Hope you have fun! (squares.io) (pdf and ipuz files)
Can you believe that the last barred grid I put on this blog was in JANUARY? Like, hello - time, what is it and why does it fly? In all seriousness, these last few puzzles have really helped me hone my skills and were just fun to make. I want to thank all my friends who've helped form and shape my style of puzzling and who have just been all-around good people. Y'all are great. Life is a thing that will exist whether it is there to be lived or endured. The last puzzle I put on the blog was about a month ago (that whole one-puzzle-a-week thing was fun while it lasted). But the reason I set puzzles stays the same, I find it fun. I hope you find my puzzles fun too. [Thank you to skaldskaparmal for test-solving] ( pdf ) ( Sheets )
This one's going to be a bit different, so I suggest reading this post the whole way through. The idea for this one first spawned when watching one of juff's streams , a fellow constructor and a very entertaining solver. In it, they were doing a co-solve of a certain puzzle - I forget which exactly - and I thought wow, this whole cryptic business is much more fun and exciting with a friend along to help. This cryptic has been inspired by the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and is thus designed for TWO solvers. You can still solve it with one person, though if you can get a friend to play along the experience should be better. One of you is designated the role of the DEFUSER. The defuser is allowed to look at the bomb (i.e. the grid and clues) and NOT allowed to look at the manual. The other is designated the role of the EXPERT. The expert may only look at the manual and NOT the grid or clues. Work together to decipher the clues and the instructions, test your com...
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