Puzzle #153: Shakashaka

Happy New Years to most of Europe and Africa. Gelukkig nieuwjaar voor alle Nederlanders.

Again this is the last post in the countdown. So here's a future new year's wish for people on a later time zone.

Happy New Years to the UK, USA and Canada when the time comes.

As last year, 0 was a tough option to do something with. As I didn't want to have repeat genres, I didn't want to choose Heyawake, which I thought would be the easiest option. Eventually I tried Shakashaka, as a 0 actually gives a lot of information in this genre.
The puzzle is pretty easy, just like last year's Akari. It's a good way to lead in the New Year.

0 - Shakashaka

Rules for Shakashaka

Puzzle #122: Shakashaka

I haven't seen how the Nikoli puzzles of this genre tend to look like, but I expect mine are a bit different. I prefer to keep the amount of clues as low as possible and make the open areas resolve themselves. I figure my puzzles tend to be on the harder side because of that. I like how it turned out. I was planning on doing a 1-2 antisymmetric clue pattern, except the 3 forced itself and I liked how the puzzle went till that point. So this is how it ended up.

Rules for Shakashaka

Puzzle #97: Shakashaka

With all the Tapas posted this week, I figured a nice easy puzzle would be a good break. This puzzle is just a silly little puzzle. I was wondering if it was possible to create a Shakashaka puzzle without any clue numbers. This was the result. Nothing difficult of course, just creative use of black squares. Enjoy.

Rules for Shakashaka

Puzzle #68: Shakashaka

The first time I encountered this genre I really didn't get it. I had no clue how to approach it, let alone solve it. It wasn't till I encountered a puzzle on Mathgrant's blog, which had the four triangle layout that I managed to get a hang of it. I still find it funny how something cimple as a different layout or a different notation system can completely change your experience of a puzzle type.
When I understood how to work the genre, I started noticing it was actually a really fun genre. I hadn't encountered this kind of logic in any genre before. I've been working on a few puzzles. I find it hard to make nice flowing puzzles sometimes. I don't find it hard making really hard puzzles though. I've already discovered some interesting patterns that can be exploited. This puzzle is a bit easier though. It flows a bit more naturally.

Rules for Shakashaka

Rules: Shakashaka

This genre was developed by Nikoli.

Colour triangles in some squares so that the remaining white space are all shaped like rectangles. The triangles have to split a square into two equal size rightangled triangles. The numbers in the black squares indicate how many of the four adjacent squares are to be coloured with a triangle.