Masyu
Masyu ましゅ Puzzles
Anurag Sahay
PinkHoodie
This is part of a Nikakoku Doppel Pair:
Variants
total
Thomas Snyder (Dr. Sudoku) shared the first three Total Masyu puzzles at his blog.
By Jack Lance:
By Sophie (Edderiofer):
deformable
This Masyu variant was invented by Serkan Yürekli in 2009 and named by Kamer Alyanakyan. Independently, Stingby12 suggested the grey pearl idea, which later on turned out to be equivalent to this established variant.
Thus this implementation contains the separate symbol half-white pearls for deformable white pearls, while normal white pearls are kept undeformable .
By Stingby12:
This set was named "Double Pearl's".
castle
This variant was first made by Bram de Laat's In and Out puzzle. This and Jamie Hargrove's Masyu (Castle Wall) puzzle,could be transcribed in the future.
By Jack Lance:
By dohz:
full
Anurag Sahay kindly shared these full Masyus:
By PinkHoodie:
fullish
The earliest version of this genre seems to be by Matúš Demiger, 2014, then named Reverse Masyu.
Teal independently re-created this variant in 2022, naming it better as Fullish Masyu:
optional-blacks
Here are two optional-blacks Masyus by Palmer Mebane (Mellow Mellon):
crossing
By Walker Anderson:
syuma
This variant was created by Prasanna Seshadri in 2014.
By Prasanna Seshadri:
rb
By Pedro:
dynasty
By Palmer Mebane (Mellow Mellon):
Semi-complete Masyu
PinkHoodie made a semi-complete Masyu ( a theory driven puzzle where you can make no progress without the variant):
unequal-lengths
By Anurag Sahay:
double
Anurag Sahay invented Double Masyu in November 2021.
By PinkHoodie:
dual,double Masyu
This puzzle by PinkHoodie combines the new dual variant with double, a great combo.
alternate
By PinkHoodie:
hex
The rules of hex masyu follow the convention of the Toketa Magazine vol.11 (2023).
By PinkHoodie:
vertigo
By 5381:
This pair is a classic-variant-doppel by 5381, one using the vertigo variant and another just classic rules:
myopia
Myopia arrows can be added to Masyu ましゅ puzzles with great effect:
By PinkHoodie:
By Anurag Sahay:
kiki
By PinkHoodie:
inturnal
By PinkHoodie:
dynasty,syuma
By PinkHoodie:
ice,no-crossing
By PinkHoodie:
ice,ice-zone-visited,no-crossing
By PinkHoodie:
castle,fullish,syuma,dynasty,alternate
By PinkHoodie:
Acknowledgements and Changes
semi-complete Masyu ましゅ was made by PinkHoodie - thank you! unequal-lengths Masyu ましゅ was made by Anurag Sahay - thank you! full puzzle. Thank you! hex Masyu ましゅ was added - thanks for help finding the appropriate ruleset double Masyu ましゅ by Anurag Sahay was added double, hex and alternate Masyu ましゅ puzzles were added by PinkHoodie, who also made the variant rule panel for double - thank you! double variant after feedback from Anurag Sahay hex puzzles were shared by PinkHoodie, one of them for Enigmarch 2024 vertigo. unequal lengths Masyu ましゅ - thank you! dual by Paletron was added. dual,double and a myopia masyu puzzles by PinkHoodie were added. Thank you! myopia Masyu ましゅ plus a second classic by Anurag Sahay - thank you. kiki and inturnal! full Masyu ましゅ puzzles were shared by Anurag Sahay and PinkHoodie! dynasty variant, reported by PinkHoodie, was fixed (cause: missing unit test) syuma variants (cause: few unit tests and conflicts with a more recent variant) dynasty,syuma! ice,no-crossing and ice,ice-zone-visited,no-crossing! fullish,syuma combo, detected by PinkHoodie, was corrected, and unit tests were added. Thank you! castle,fullish,syuma,dynasty,alternate and a classic Masyu ましゅ (aprt of the size series)! rb variant was corrected.