Ni-Krow-Li Volume II

Back in March, I had completed a puzzle set based on Nikoli's The Pencil Puzzle 2022. I quite enjoyed setting those puzzles and they were well received, so when I recently finished another book, Puzzle Box 14, I immediately considered if I wanted to make a set based on that too.

It was going to be a much bigger project. Penpa has 10 genres per book, while Puzzle Box has more than 50 genres per book. Despite the size of the task ahead, I decided to take on the challenge and got to work. And now, about three weeks later, I'm honestly pretty excited to share the results with all of you!

DireKrow presents: Ni-Krow-Li Volume II, the second in a series of puzzle sets inspired by various Nikoli books that I've completed. A small celebration of the enduring creativity and ingenuity of the logic puzzle community.

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This set consists of one puzzle from each genre featured in Nikoli's Puzzle Box 14, with a few exceptions. I excluded genres that were very reliant on language, or had particularly elaborate or cumbersome presentation. Even with those exclusions, there's still a total of 47 puzzles for hungry solvers to sink their teeth into.

Genres are listed in the same order they appeared in original book. The puzzle size and presentation aim to roughly match what is found in that book for each genre.

Difficulty varies from 🐦🐦 to 🐦🐦🐦🐦, with the hardest puzzles exceeding what you would find in the book it's based on. Familiarity with the genres in the book is recommended. Overall I would expect experienced solvers to take about two hours to work through the entire set

Genre rules are not listed in the document. Instead, either refer to the Nikoli website, the individual rule pages on puzz.link, or the click the “Show Rules” button on the Penpa+ pages of puzzles using that interface.

That's all for now! Feel free to leave any feedback in the comments below.

 

Following is a raw list of puzzles from genres that puzz.link supports. This is here so that the puzzles get added to the puzz.link database. Not all puzzles in the set are here, since several aren't supported by puzz.link. The recommended way of experiencing the puzzles is through the pdf above.

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