Dolphiner's Puzzles

This puzzle was from quite a while ago. I really should make more of this genre as it flows so nicely. Est. Difficulty 4/10 Rules: Shade some cells on the board . A group of shaded cells must form a rectangle or square . A group of unshaded cells must not form a rectangle or square . A clue indicates the size of the group . A group can contain one clue , more than one (of the same ) clue , or no clues at all . Link: https://puzz.link/p?cbanana/10/10/r4n2g25i3i4g5zp7gaici76g6nar

 Recently, there was a speed setting competition within the CTC discord server. The prompt was to make a snake egg puzzle, whether it be a classic puzzle or one with some added variant spice (as long as it still resembled the genre :D), all in one hour. I eventually settled on what I thought was a pretty neat theme, a bit messy but pretty reasonable for the time given. Turns out, it came first place! First speed setting contest I've ever got a podium position for, let alone first. It'd be a shame to not put it here, so I prettied it up a little bit for the blog post and put it up. I hope you like it :) Est. difficulty (3-4)/10 Rules: Locate a snake in the grid, whose head and tail are given, with touching itself only diagonally. The unshaded regions should from areas of sizes 1-8, two of the areas are not present and are to be determined by the solver. Two adjacent cells on a line cannot be both shaded or both unshaded. Link: https://tinyurl.com/22qhk2zj

 Here is a small puzzle I made for the monthly puzzle prompt at the CTC discord, where the theme was to make a puzzle about a single clue or deduction. I went with deduction in this case, and I think the resulting puzzle flows really nicely :D Est. difficulty 4/10 Rules: Draw an orthogonally connected loop through the centres of some cells. The loop cannot branch or cross itself. For every region, the loop must either pass through all of the cells in the region, or none of the cells in the region. The loop can visit a region at most once. Two unused regions cannot be orthogonally adjacent. Link: https://puzz.link/p?nothing/11/11/a4q9vvm9m9vvq9ipvvj9d2fv2r96rvu9m5m7vn5gqevu

Relatively docile puzzle despite appearances. Be not afraid :) Est. difficulty, 4/10. Rules : Draw a closed loop through the centres of some cells . The loop cannot branch or cross itself , and can only move through orthogonally connected cells . Each region must be visited exactly once by the loop , and the loop must pass through either all of the sun clues and none of the moon clues in the region , or all of the moon clues and none of the sun clues in the region . The loop cannot pass through the same type of clue in two consecutively visited regions . Link : Moon or Sun player (puzz.link)

A collection of four 9x9 icelom puzzles, all focusing on unique logic using ? clues. A sound experience of icelom is recommended before tackling this pack, the logic gets quite wacky here! Est difficulty Medium-Hard. Rules: Draw a line that starts at the IN arrow , and goes through every white cell before reaching the OUT arrow . Two perpendicular line segments may intersect each other only on icy cells , but the loop may not branch or otherwise overlap . The loop may not turn on icy cells . All clues must be visited in ascending order. A question mark represents a unique number from 1 to the number of clues ) . Puzzles (In approximate ascending order of difficulty ) Scaffolding : https://puzz.link/p?icelom/a/9/9/85v902c0g3409fi10zl.m2i.i.i1m.zl/2/15 (est difficulty 4/10) Force of Habit : https://puzz.link/p?icelom/a/9/9/4opr8pp189phdphi0z.i.r4h.h.r1i.z/1/16 (est difficulty (6/10) Schemer : https://puzz.link/p?icelom/a/9/9/cc53hpao1l9osa330zg.3.n.m.m.n.1.zg/4/13 (est difficul...