June 2016 – Paramesis Puzzle Blog

Trapezoids

Here is a new type loosely inspired by Inaba Naoki’s Cell-Land.

Shade some cells such that:

Numbers indicate exactly how many surrounding cells are filled.
Filled cells must be in clusters of 3, forming trapezoids. A trapezoid may not share an edge with another trapezoid.
All unfilled cells are connected edge-to-edge.

Hidden Trapezoids Example Hidden Trapezoids Example Solution

All of the puzzles can be found organized in this printable PDF, or in the images below.

Hidden Trapezoids Easy 01.png

Hidden Trapezoids Medium 02

Hidden Trapezoids Medium 03

Hidden Trapezoids Hard 04

Hidden Trapezoids Hard 05

Hidden Trapezoids Hard 06

Hidden Trapezoids Expert 07

Chocona (チョコナ) is a puzzle type that likely originates with Nikoli. I have adapted it to play on a Truncated Square grid.

Shade some cells such that:

A filled square may not share an edge with a filled octagon.
Filled octagons may share an edge, but only if the contiguous area of filled octagons forms a 45° oriented rectangle.
Each bold-outlined region must have at least one filled octagon.
Numbers indicate exactly how many cells, octagon or square, are filled in a bold-outlined region. Regions with no number can have any number of filled cells.