Puzzles | Shyeheya

All my most notable puzzles are posted here, use the categories to filter by type of puzzle, and use the tags to filter by genre, difficulty, size and more

December 13-22 of 2021 was when I was archiving my old works from before making the site. For any puzzles posted within this timeframe, their actual release dates may be much older

If you record or stream puzzle solves on Youtube/Twitch and would like to solve a puzzle here in my collection, just be sure to link the original post and credit me!

#199 GAPP Collection XXX

Sorry for the long hiatus! Here is the last GAPP collection, all of the remaining puzzles I made as part of the team on the CTC community discord. Quite a lot of them, so hopefully it makes up for the time away. I have a lot of backlogged puzzles that will be coming out soon too :D Puzzle 1 - Ice Walk Draw a loop through the centers of some cells which passes through each numbered cell. Two perpendicular line segments may intersect each other only on icy cells, but they may

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shyeheya

22 hours ago4 min read

#198 "Orphan Source" - Sudoku

About 3 years ago I participated in a challenge amongst friends to make the hardest puzzle possible according to the following rules: it...

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shyeheya

Jan 11, 20251 min read

#197 GAPP Collection XXIX

Y'all know the drill. It's been a long time since I last posted a GAPP collection, so long ago in fact that I'm not a main setter...

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shyeheya

Jan 6, 20252 min read

#196 "Windward" - Sudoku

Hello again! It's been so long since I last posted here, life got the best of me. The other day I caught up with friends in the CTC...

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shyeheya

Aug 9, 20241 min read

#195 "Don't Overthink It" - Ant Mill

I remember seeing a Slitherlink some time ago that had a similar design to this puzzle, and because of my lack of experience with the...

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shyeheya

Jan 31, 20241 min read

#194 "Sutures" - Torsione

This genre was one I worked up with the help of ChatGPT as a joke for the daily GAPP series. The ruleset is unusual, as you'd expect with...

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shyeheya

Jan 11, 20241 min read

#193 GAPP Collection XXVIII

GAPP stands for Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles, and if this is your first foray into the field then maybe this collection will be...

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shyeheya

Jan 8, 20242 min read

#192 - Tasquapelago

Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected group of shaded cells is in the shape of a square and the remaining unshaded cells...

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shyeheya

Dec 31, 20231 min read

#191 "Tongue in Cheek" - All or Nothing

Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells. A region may be visited by the loop at most once, and if it is, all of...

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shyeheya

Dec 24, 20231 min read

#190 GAPP Collection XXVII

I've been busy lately with end of year commitments, but one thing that never stops is the GAPP train babyyyy! Here are my most recent...

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shyeheya

Dec 16, 20232 min read

#189 GAPP Collection XXVI

GAPP stands for Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles, it's a series we (myself, Mender, Freddie, Walker and Lava) do over in the CTC...

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shyeheya

Nov 16, 20232 min read

#188 "Meander" - Heyablock

Shade a single group of orthogonally connected cells in each region so that the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected...

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shyeheya

Nov 5, 20231 min read

#187 GAPP Collection XXV

GAPP is nearing its two year birthday, kinda crazy to think I've been a part of it for that long! If you haven't seen these before,...

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shyeheya

Oct 21, 20232 min read

#186 GAPP Collection XXIV

GAPP stands for Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles, it's a series I'm a part of in the CTC discord server. Every day one of either...

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shyeheya

Sep 23, 20232 min read

#185 "Sticky Helix" - Eels

This old Eric Fox original is a lot of fun to solve, but I wasn't expecting it to be so finicky to set! Maybe if I went for a simpler...

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shyeheya

Sep 21, 20231 min read

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