Eric Fox's Puzzles

      Here are two Nurikabe puzzles with the same theme: Clues consisting of the numbers 1-8 once each.      Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

     Powers of 2!      Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area.  No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded and e ach connected group of unshaded cells must be exactly five cells in size.  Clues cannot be shaded, and indicate the number of orthogonally adjacent shaded cells. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Numbered regions must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. The shaded cells within a region must have 180° rotational symmetry around the region's center. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       This is a Nurikabe puzzle that works and has a different solve path no matter how many layers you chop off the edges.      Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online Solve online Solve online Solve online Solve online Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Cells touching a circle must be unshaded. Every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells must contain exactly one circle,  and have 180° rotational symmetry around it.  No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue. The value of a clue represents the size of its area, except every clue is off by 1. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. The shaded cells must also be able to be divided into dominoes. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Jeffrey Bardon / IHNN  recently challenged me (in a sense) to create three variants or hybrids from his December 2020 daily streak, and I did it! Here's the first one, a Nuraf. His can be found  here .     The second puzzle from this challenge was a  hybrid between Moon or Sun and Balance Loop , and the third was a  hybrid between Kakuro and Kropki .      Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded. Every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly two circles and has an area that lies between the two numbers in the circles, exclusive. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded. Each region must contain at least one shaded cell. No two shaded cells which are adjacent across a bold border may belong to regions containing the same number of shaded cells. Solve online

     I first saw t his idea in  this puzzle  by Jamie Hargrove . Here's my take on it!        Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. Shaded clues are meaningless. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

    Here are three unrelated Nurikabe puzzles. I was especially happy that I got the consecutive-pairs theme to work out for the last one without sacrificing the logic I'd intended. Enjoy!        Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online Solve online Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area, no 2x2 region is entirely shaded, and the other rules of each genre are met:     LITS (Top left):     Each region must contain exactly four orthogonally connected cells, forming tetrominoes. Two tetrominoes of the same shape may not share a bold border, counting rotations and reflections as the same.     Tapa (Top right):      Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue.     Canal View (Bottom left):      Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells connected in a straight line horizontally or vertically to the clue.     Irunuri (Bottom right):      Numbered regions must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. The shaded cells within a region m...

       Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online

     Tapa (Left):      S hade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.      Nurikabe (Right):      Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Solve online Solve online