#ct puzzles

So true, you got me. Smash that like button if you’re a real sigma puzzle-solver (super rare, better than alpha)

60/60 picarats

An excerpt by Vladimir Nabokov:

How will I sit in the carriage the next half hour

How will I be looking at these snowflakes and black branches

How will I follow with my eyes, in a cotton hat, this curbstone

How will I be remembering the path there on the path back

Touching by the minute with disdainful tenderness the cloth

In which I’m carefully wrapped like a trinket of bone

Where is the narrator going? Drop guesses or hint coins in the replies!

30/30 picarats

120/120 picarats

60/60 picarats for modded version

I think I made this one a little too hard, 26x26 with a lot of open space and ones, but I might make another, easier one another time. Save the image and put it in an app with a pen tool to give it a shot!

Rules of picross: the numbers represent how many squares are blocked in in their row or column. When there are several, for example: 1 1 2, that means there’s one block filled in somewhere, one at least one space down/to the right, and a cluster of two at least one space down/to the right of that. A tip would be to put a colored X on either side of each cluster so that you don’t accidentally add more when solving the other axis.

The blocked in squares will draw a recognizable image related to the Layton series. For hints I suppose I can PM a partially solved version of this to make it easier, but good luck if anyone actually wants to do it!

Puzzle 001

70/70 picarats

In Ethiopia there is a trail of tears where slaves were being marched across the desert. Their masters were giving them something along the way and that led to an indication of where the trail was that still exists today. What were the masters giving the slaves?

(Drop a hint coin in the replies if you want to solve it but are having trouble, I promise I have good hints ready)

Puzzle 002

35/35 picarats