Hybrid Star Battle Series (020) - Shivers
(Published on 28. May 2023, 01:02 by BenceJoful)
Intro
For this Hybrid Star Battle Series I will be sharing a new puzzle each week combining Star Battle with another puzzle genre. This week's genre is Shivers, which was suggested by CHalb back on #006. Thanks for the inspiration!
Shivers is a very cool new genre (as in, there's only one puzzle) by wisty. I've tweaked the ruleset a bit (as I'm not using black squares), but the core mechanic is unchanged.
Rules
Standard Shivers and Star Battle rules apply, where each shiver has two stars.
- Shivers:
- Fill the grid with non-intersecting lines that turn 90* at each cell, called shivers.
- A dashed circle indicates an endpoint of a shiver.
- Letter clues indicate the length of the shiver which overlaps it. All shivers which overlap the same letter are the same length. Shivers overlapping different letters are different lengths.
- Star Battle: Shade some cells such that each row, column, and shiver contains exactly 2 shaded cells. Shaded cells may not touch each other, even diagonally.
Links
8x8 2-star Example (Penpa+ link):
Solution code: Along row 8, then column 8: if the cell has a star, give *. Otherwise, give L if its a turning point in a shiver, and I if it's an endpoint. In the above example, the solution code is ILIL*L*I L*I*LLII.
Comments
on 24. December 2024, 18:19 by The-Siege
Looks very interesting. Question for clarity: A shiver may contain zero, one, or two circles, and any number of letters, correct? Thanks
on 1. June 2024, 04:35 by Roezaea
incredible! 15 minutes for the example, 2 hours for the full solve. would love to see more shivers!
on 10. July 2023, 19:07 by dumediat
This is a very impressive puzzle! The logic between the constraints was beautiful, and there great mix of local and global deductions. Always glad to see more shivers puzzles as well. :) Thank you very much for sharing!
on 4. June 2023, 11:49 by CHalb
I'm glad I gave you the idea for this combi and intentionally didn't answer your half-non-rhetoric question about the ruleset but let you think :-) . A wonderful surprising puzzle we have here!
on 29. May 2023, 04:04 by wisty
Thank you so much!!! This was amazing from start to finish! Very natural and fun expansion of the shivers ruleset, and the puzzle flows well too :D
on 29. May 2023, 00:47 by szabog
Funny rules, thank you. I have very little time to solve nowadays so I am behind with some homework...
