Featured Puzzle Genres I've Created

This is a list of rules with examples for logic puzzles featured on this blog. This page covers genres I invented. For the rest, see this index.

Nonotour

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all empty cells. Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive cells in which the loop turns in the corresponding row or column.

Example:

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Tapa Rope

Rules: Shade 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 along the length of rope attached to the clue, not necessarily in order. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Example:

Solve using Penpa+