Puzzle #4

This is an Akari puzzle.

Difficulty: medium

Theme: Tribute.

Puz-PRE link.

Today is the 29th birthday of Grant Fikes, the person who expanded my knowledge of the different genres of logic puzzles out there and thus got me hooked on them in the first place. This puzzle is dedicated to him.

Puzzle #3

This is an Akari puzzle.

Difficulty: medium

Theme: Few givens

Puz-PRE link.

@mathgrant @edderiofer I never knew you had a blog! The concept is pretty cool but after I've completed it in 3 minutes, it's very limited.

— Scar (@neskalmantas) April 20, 2016

This tweet refers to the previous puzzle, which I did say was trivial. So have a harder Akari, if you think Akari in general is boring and useful only for eye-candy.

Meanwhile, here's what my father said about it:

Congratulations for your new puzzle! I looked at it, and to be honest, I have no idea how to start. I just wonder how many people in this planet could solve this puzzle? How long will they take?

Answer: Many people, and 3 minutes.

Puzzle #2

This is an Akari puzzle.

Difficulty: trivial

Theme: Light Up (in celebration of 4/20)

Puz-PRE link.

For those of us who don't know, Akari was originally called "Light Up".

For those of us who don't know, today is 4/20 in the nonsensical American calendar system, a day that people who smoke marijuana tend to celebrate, by lighting up their joints of marijuana and smoking them, as well as doing other things.

For those of us who don't know, mathgrant came up with this pun, and I just couldn't resist seeing it come to fruition.

For those of us who don't know, I've stopped making my puzzles in Paint.NET and started making them instead in Puz-PRE.