About group bonuses, I do think that they aren't that fitting in this test. But well, everything has been settled before I realized this, so, yeah. It's mostly to allow solvers to plan how they do the puzzles in order to maximize the bonuses.

I should have made Skyscrapers' grid larger. I'm too much used to binary and loop puzzles that I aim to make smaller grids (so that more can fit on the same page; it's wasteful if the PB has 18 pages IMO).

Thanks!

Thanks for the interesting walk through's for Nurikabe and Slitherlink. Learned some interesting new things!

I am still struggling with the second kropki skyscraper. Can someone write a few lines about the critical steps for this puzzle as well?

Thanks in advance!

It's somewhat trial and error at rows 2 and 6, or at least that's the best path I've found so far. I'll provide a walkthrough ASAP.

Heh, apparently not as terrible as I thought. Skyscrapers Kropki (Bottom)

Edited by chaotic_iak 2013-06-03 9:09 PM

Thanks a lot for this walkthrough. Much less T&E than I expected, so I learned a few interesting elimination steps again!