Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 28

Trilands:
You must flood the giant island until you are left with 6 islands, each with three huts.

Rules.
Touching lands are considered to be part of the same island.

How to Play.
You may click on a hut to flood it; click it again to unflood it.

Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 27

Bridges:
Construct bridges on the open sea so that each island has the specified number of bridges connected to it.

Rules.
Bridges go vertically or horizonally. If an island is numbered, that many bridges (and no more) must connect to it.

How to Play.
All empty water spaces must be labeled with a bridge before the puzzle can be considered solved. Click on a water space to cycle between bridges and water. The numbers will turn yellow-green or red (depending on whether it is satisfied) when you have constructed all the bridges around that island.

Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 26

Mini Kakuro 4:
Since so many users had problems with the puzzle rendering last week, I've decided to keep them here this week, with 12 more puzzles added for those of you who managed to make them work.

Rules.
Place the given digits into the grid so that no digit appears more than once in any "word" and that the sum of the digits in the word match the indicated sum. For example, a three-digit 8 might be "152", or "215", or "431".

How to Play.
Drag letters from the "palette" on the left into the grid to place them. You'll know you've solved it when all the sums turn green. Click on a cell to get a keyboard-sensitive cursor. You can click on "Shrink" to make the grid smaller (for those of you with small screens).

Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 25

Mini Kakuro 3: The twist in these Kakuro puzzles is that low numbers are used frequently, while you only have a few copies of the big numbers.

Rules.
Place the given digits into the grid so that no digit appears more than once in any "word" and that the sum of the digits in the word match the indicated sum. Sometimes there is one digit left over; don't let that rattle you.

How to Play.
Drag letters from the "palette" on the left into the grid to place them. You'll know you've solved it when all the sums turn green. Click on a cell to get a keyboard-sensitive cursor.

Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 24

Whyme Rhyme 2: Find the non-rhyming pairs of words that only differ in their first letter, such as LEMON DEMON.

Rules.
The words may or may not be proper nouns. Pronunciations are assumed to be standard American English, but these pairs will fail to rhyme in almost all dialects of English. (For more Whyme Rhymes, check out the archive.)

How to Play.
Simply type your guess in the box. Spaces and capitalization don't count, but spelling does! You can try as much as you want without penalty. If you have solved a puzzle already and want to see the original clue, try parking your mouse over the answer.

In the direction of milquetoasts
A serviceman stationed closer to the tropics
Description for teeth that could be a bit whiter
The right person to be reaching
Famous actor from Sheffield
Starbucks® concoction that isn't very shiny
Attempts to popularize grassy plants
What to press a doorbell with
A new sort of miserable dwelling
Pours out trigonometric functions
Mexican food from a city in central Texas
An amazing thing that one likes better

Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 23

October 27, 2006:

Hidden Insults:
Name the famous person, given a somewhat-insulting word hidden in their name. For instance, VIEW can be found in "SteVIE Wonder."

Rules.
The hidden word always spans a space in the original name, but there are no extra letters added or removed. You'll get 10, 7, 4, 3, 2, or 1 points depending on how many hints you've revealed. There may be more than one famous person with the hidden insult, but I've tried to pick the most famous one in each case. The first clue is always the (main) profession of the person.

How to Play.
Simply type your guess in the box. Spaces and capitalization don't count, but spelling does! You can try as much as you want without penalty. You can also switch back-and-forth between puzzles without penalty (assuming that the new Google Gadgets User Preference code holds up).

Answers / Solutions: Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solve puzzles page.

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Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 22

October 20, 2006:

Mini Battleships:
Fifty small Battleships puzzles! Place the six-ship fleet into the grid.

Rules.
Ships can be oriented vertically or horizontally. The numbers along the side tell you how many "ship parts" are in that respective row or column. Ships are never adjacent to each other, not even diagonally. Some ship components and blank spaces are given to you and cannot be changed.

How to Play.
All 36 squares must be labeled before the puzzle is considered solved. Click on an empty space to mark it with a ship part. Click on a brown ship part to mark it with an ocean ('x'). Click on an brown ocean mark to make it empty. Right-click has the reverse effect of click. As you surround a ship part with ocean, it will be automatically shaped to fit. The numbers will turn green or red depending on how many ship parts you've

Answers / Solutions: Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solve puzzles page.

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Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 21

October 13, 2006:

No fancy puzzle this week; I just got back from being part of Team USA at the 15th World Puzzle Championship. But here's a rather basic puzzle from the competition I can share:
What is next in this sequence? 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, 30, 33, 120, ?

Answers / Solutions: Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solve puzzles page.

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Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 20

October 06, 2006:

Mister Mind.

Introduction.
Mister Mind has challenged you to guess his secret color code. For each guess of yours he's given indicator pegs on the side; but, the evil Mister Mind always adds an extra peg just to keep things confusing. You only have one guess left, so you better make sure it's correct!

Rules.
The rules are similar to Mastermind®; a black peg indicates that a color is in the correct position, while a white peg stands for a color that is correct but in the wrong position. The only difference is that each row always has an extra peg, which can be white or black. No guesswork is required; there's always enough information for you to be able to deduce the correct code.

How to Play.
You may click on the cells of the rows to "make notes" -- the background can be cycled among three different colors. When you are ready to submit your answer, click on the colored pegs on the right to submit your answer. You may click the arrow to "backspace"; however, once you click the fourth color, it will be submitted instantly, so be careful! The stats are for entertainment purposes only, and are pretty easy to cheat -- so you're only cheating yourself.

Answers / Solutions: Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solve puzzles page.

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Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 19

September 29, 2006:

Word Wreck Tangle: Drag the letters into the rectangle so that words read both across and down.

How to Play.
Purple letters only move up-and-down, while green letters only move left and right. Click and drag a colored letter to move it. You win if four five-letter English words read left-to-right along the rows and five four-letter words read down along the columns.

Answers / Solutions: Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solve puzzles page.

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Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 18

September 22, 2006:


Last Chessman Standing: Invented by Vesa Timonen. Have the pieces capture each other until there is only one. No moves, only captures.

How to Play.
Click and drag a piece onto another to capture it. Pieces capture as in standard chess, but color can be ignored. When the button is held on a piece, the legal captures will turn black. You'll be notified if there are no more moves.

Answers / Solutions: Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solve puzzles page.

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Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Challenge Number 17

September 15, 2006:

Pipe Spin: Spin the pipes such that all pipes become green.

Rules: One pipe has a "water source" (colored green), and anything connected to that pipe also gets water. To win, all pipes must be connected. On harder levels, pipes may "wrap around" (connections above reconnect to connections below, and same for left-to-right). To win, all pipes must get to the "water source".

How to Play: Click on a pipe to rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. After choosing a new puzzle, you may have to resize your browser window a bit to force the refresh.


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Answers / Solutions:

Answers are usually (and will be) posted in the comments section. Full answers will be posted on the solvepuzzles page.

Due to the random puzzles, answers will be different based on your pipe layout. Example of a solved puzzle:

I will post the solutions later.

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