(last updated 12-29-2012)
All of the puzzles on this blog (at least, the ones I made, which make up 98% of them) are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, so you may use these puzzles for any noncommercial purpose so long as you attribute me, and you don't have any obligation to pay me money. However, I'm always open to receiving money, so whether you wish to donate me some money as a tip for the enjoyment my puzzles have given you, or you wish to use my puzzles in a commercial publication, such as a puzzle magazine, read on!
How to Pay Me
One of the quickest ways to give me money is via PayPal. I have a PayPal account associated with the email address on this blog's sidebar (the one ending in gmail dot com). Note, however, that this PayPal account is set up with the micropayment rate (5% of each payment plus a flat fee of 5 cents, rather than the usual 2.9% plus 30 cents). For payments above $12 or so, it would be courteous to email me so I can give you the address of a different PayPal account so that a smaller portion will be eaten up by fees, or perhaps set up a different means of payment entirely.
Puzzles for Commercial Use
If there are particular puzzles on this blog which you would like to use for commercial purposes (such as publishing them in a puzzle magazine), you can pay for a non-exclusive license to do so. This is faster than commissioning custom puzzles, but my readers may not be as willing to pay to see puzzles they have already seen for free. To be perfectly honest, it's less fun for me, too, because I like creating new puzzles. Nonetheless, this is an option I am willing to offer to anyone who wants it.
You can also commission me to write original custom puzzles for your publication. I am capable of writing a wide variety of logic puzzles of a wide range of difficulty levels, so no matter what your publication's needs are, I can deliver. As with the above option, you will be licensed to use these puzzles for whatever purposes you wish, including commercial purposes. You will be granted the first rights to publish the commissioned puzzles (after all, if I publish them first, who's going to pay you to view them?), but not full copyright (meaning I can publish said puzzles in an anthology of my own at some point). As long as I retain copyright, you should be able to negotiate whatever rights you believe will help you get the most bang for your buck.
This is a personal blog, and it will never have paid advertising. I
will not add a link to your site just because you offer to pay me.
Every single link on this blog is here because it genuinely interests
me, or because it's somehow a form of shameless self-promotion (which
arguably counts as genuinely interesting me). However, I'm always eager
to promote myself, so if you commission me to write puzzles for you, you
will definitely get a lot of good publicity on this blog. Certainly
puzzles and publicity are better than publicity alone, right? :)
Prices are negotiable, but you can rely on larger, more complex puzzles costing more than smaller simpler ones. I reserve the right to refuse a license to any publication. As a rule of thumb, I will happily supply puzzles for a publication called This Magazine is Centered Around Puzzles Monthly, but not one called Adherents of This Belief System to Which Grant Subscribes Are Unholy Morons Quarterly. I want to create divisions between grid cells, not people, with my puzzles. :)
Puzzles for Non-Commercial Use
As mentioned above, all of my puzzles on this blog are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, and you may use them for non-commercial purposes for free.
Tips
Feel free to tip me without asking me for anything in
return. I am always open to receiving money! I mean, what logic puzzle author wouldn't want money?
I reserve the right to change these terms without notice.
Monday Mutant 123: Cross the Streams / Tetra Firma (inverted)
Shade in tetrominoes such that the black cells are all connected to each
other through their edges, and no 2x2 cell area within the grid
contains all black cells. No two congruent tetrominoes may share an
edge, even if they are rotated or reflected versions of each other.
Numbers to the left of a row or above a column represent the groups of
consecutive white cells which are in that row or column. For example, a
clue of "3" means the row or column has three consecutive white cells,
and a clue of "3 1" means that the row or column has a group of three
consecutive white cells followed by a single white cell, separated by at
least one black cell. A question mark (?) represents a group of
consecutive white cells whose size is unknown; an asterisk (*)
represents any number of unknown groups of white cells, including none at all.
Puzzle 584: Tetra Firma 38
Battle of LITS is now 100% funded, and is the first game to be fueled by nestorbooster! You can continue to pre-order it until December 26, and you'll get a discount over the final price, so if you want to get my game as cheaply as possible without the flimsy print-and-play pieces, now is the time. :)
Monday Mutant 122: Cross the Streams / Tetra Firma
Shade in tetrominoes such that the black cells are all connected to each
other through their edges, and no 2x2 cell area within the grid
contains all black cells. No two congruent tetrominoes may share an
edge, even if they are rotated or reflected versions of each other.
Numbers to the left of a row or above a column represent the groups of
consecutive black cells which are in that row or column. For example, a
clue of "3" means the row or column has three consecutive black cells,
and a clue of "3 1" means that the row or column has a group of three
consecutive black cells followed by a single black cell, separated by at
least one white cell. A question mark (?) represents a group of
consecutive black cells whose size is unknown; an asterisk (*)
represents any number of unknown groups of black cells, including none at all.
Monday Mutant 121: Tetra Firma (double)
In this Tetra Firma puzzle, every region contains two tetrominoes instead of one. The two tetrominoes in one region cannot share an edge. The rules are otherwise unchanged.
Inspired by the LMI test Puzzle Fusion.
There is now a Facebook page for A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog! If you want to promote my efforts to get Battle of LITS published, share this post. Including offline funding, I've raised about half of the money I need already! Help me get all the way there before December 26!
There is now a Facebook page for A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog! If you want to promote my efforts to get Battle of LITS published, share this post. Including offline funding, I've raised about half of the money I need already! Help me get all the way there before December 26!
Puzzle 580: The Inner Limits 7
The nestorgames edition of Battle of LITS
has raised 8% of the necessary funding to be published! I'm also
working on raising money offline; the pledges I've received so far (and
plan on collecting within the week) are an additional 9%. Let's hope
that the momentum continues. . . . :)
Rules of The Inner Limits
Monday Mutant 120: Polyominous / Tetra Firma
In this Polyominous puzzle, the rule that no two polyominoes of the same size may share an edge is
specifically waived for tetrominoes, which must follow the rules of Tetra Firma
(excluding the rule that every region contains a single tetromino). The
number 4 never appears as a given in the grid; instead, the letters L,
I, T, and S are given, corresponding to the shape of the tetromino.
I thought I clicked tomorrow's date. . . bah. You get this puzzle early.
In the past, I have plugged my board game Battle of LITS, which uses the LITS rules to create an original two-player game. Battle of LITS is now available on nestorbooster! 500 euros in pre-orders within the next month will allow Battle of LITS to become the next nestorgames publication! Without your pre-orders, though, this dream of mine will not happen. I hope you choose to help me get published with a meager 21 euro investment (which will be refunded if the funding fails). :)
In the past, I have plugged my board game Battle of LITS, which uses the LITS rules to create an original two-player game. Battle of LITS is now available on nestorbooster! 500 euros in pre-orders within the next month will allow Battle of LITS to become the next nestorgames publication! Without your pre-orders, though, this dream of mine will not happen. I hope you choose to help me get published with a meager 21 euro investment (which will be refunded if the funding fails). :)
Monday Mutant 119: Polyominous / Tetra Firma
In this Polyominous puzzle, the rule that no two polyominoes of the same size may share an edge is
specifically waived for tetrominoes, which must follow the rules of Tetra Firma (excluding the rule that every region contains a single tetromino). The number 4 never appears as a given in the grid; instead, the letters L, I, T, and S are given, corresponding to the shape of the tetromino.
In the past, I have plugged my board game Battle of LITS, which uses the LITS rules to create an original two-player game. Battle of LITS will soon appear on nestorbooster, giving readers the chance to pre-order and fund the creation and sale of a portable version! Stay tuned!
ChipIn for Children's Charities: Solutions, winners, and even more thoughts
See the title of this post. Also see the original contest.
Fillomino-Fillia 2: Bonus puzzles!
It was an honor working with MellowMelon on this, as it was last year. If you'd like to see the solutions to the puzzles on the test, MellowMelon has released Puzzle Pack Vol. IV on his blog; it contains the 18 test puzzles, the preview puzzles, some reject puzzles, some puzzles we made afterwards for the heck of it, hints, and solutions. Altogether, there are 56 puzzles, of which 30 are mine and 26 are his. I made a lot of 7x7's at MellowMelon's request to give new solvers bite-sized puzzles to chew on, so it's not like my quality outshines his quality. Or does it?
I especially hope my readers enjoy puzzle IV.9 from the pack; while I won't be allowed to post big puzzles on my blog for quite some time, IV.9 is a 20x36 classic puzzle that I believe a sufficiently-skilled solver will find very rewarding.
I especially hope my readers enjoy puzzle IV.9 from the pack; while I won't be allowed to post big puzzles on my blog for quite some time, IV.9 is a 20x36 classic puzzle that I believe a sufficiently-skilled solver will find very rewarding.
ChipIn for Children's Charities: Bonus puzzle!
I posted this link on my twitch.tv channel while I was doing my Super Mario World race; now I'm posting it on my blog for everyone else to see!
This PDF file contains information about ChipIn for Children's Charities (information which you might already know), plus a bonus Dominnocuous puzzle for your solving pleasure; solve the Dominnocuous, and you'll be eligible to win a small bonus prize! As the PDF also explains, you can also be entered to win this prize by tweeting about the contest and @mentioning me, or by donating as little as 99 cents! Get to work, readers! :)
This PDF file contains information about ChipIn for Children's Charities (information which you might already know), plus a bonus Dominnocuous puzzle for your solving pleasure; solve the Dominnocuous, and you'll be eligible to win a small bonus prize! As the PDF also explains, you can also be entered to win this prize by tweeting about the contest and @mentioning me, or by donating as little as 99 cents! Get to work, readers! :)
ChipIn for Children's Charities: SMW race is today!
As mentioned a few weeks ago, dethwing has offered to donate $1 for every minute under 2:30:00 in which I can beat Super Mario World during a 96-exit race which is happening today (up to $30). Since then, another reader has offered to match this donation to each charity, effectively quadrupling dethwing's generosity! That means I have $120 worth of charity donations riding on my ability to control Mario. Of course, it's not too late for someone else to increase the stakes if they would like. . .
As incentive for all of my logic-puzzle-loving readers to watch me play Super Mario World on my twitch.tv channel, during the race, I will give instructions on how you can win a copy of Norinori 1 by Nikoli! Note that the race has been re-scheduled for approximately 8:00 PM Eastern. That's about 6 and a half hours from the time of this post!
As incentive for all of my logic-puzzle-loving readers to watch me play Super Mario World on my twitch.tv channel, during the race, I will give instructions on how you can win a copy of Norinori 1 by Nikoli! Note that the race has been re-scheduled for approximately 8:00 PM Eastern. That's about 6 and a half hours from the time of this post!
Fillomino-Fillia 2 Preview Series: Skyscraper Fillomino
This is a skyscraper Fillomino (AKA Polyominous). The numbers in the grid should be treated as building heights. Numbers on the outside of the grid tell how many buildings are visible when looking from that direction. A building obscures all buildings behind it whose height is equal to or smaller than itself.
Answer Entry: Enter the units digits (last digit) of the number in each circled cell starting with the leftmost column and going right.
Highlight to see the answer: 64816117
Highlight to see the answer: 64816117
Fillomino-Fillia 2 Preview Series: Walls Fillomino
This is a walls Fillomino (AKA Polyominous). A pair of cells with a thick border between them must contain different numbers.
Answer Entry: Enter the units digits (last digit) of the number in each circled cell starting with the leftmost column and going right.
Highlight to see the answer: 15321848
Highlight to see the answer: 15321848
Fillomino-Fillia 2 Preview Series: Sum Fillomino
This is a sum Fillomino (AKA Polyominous). The grid contains some cages. The number at the top left of each cage gives the sum of all numbers that appear inside of it. Numbers may be repeated in cages.
Answer Entry: Enter the units digits (last digit) of the number in each circled cell starting with the leftmost column and going right.
Highlight to see the answer: 33751242
This variant will be featured on a "Best of Fillomino-Fillia 1" page, alongside a Cipher Fillomino.
Highlight to see the answer: 33751242
This variant will be featured on a "Best of Fillomino-Fillia 1" page, alongside a Cipher Fillomino.
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