Thank you to everyone who liked the puzzle I created.
It has such quite distinctive features:
- 8 cages,
- 13 cells in largest cage,
- 3 cells in smallest cage,
- 68 sum of cage,
- 5 shapes of cages.

To encourage puzzle-making, I suggest posting a puzzle challenge.

Who will create a puzzle of size 1..8 x 1..8 with record in one of these categories:
a) minimum number of cages;
b) maximum number of cells in biggest cage;
c) maximum number of cells in smallest cage;
d) biggest sum of cells in one cage;
e) smallest number of cage shapes (rotation and mirroring is included inside same shape);
f) biggest number of cage shapes.

May be split in different categories - only one operation or many, without any singe cell cage or with defined number cell.

My sweetest puzzle I have sent to Patrick and he like this fun challenge.

Mikas, I have taken on your puzzle challenge, and will submit an 8x8 puzzle soon.


My puzzle has a cage with 30 cells


The sum in the large cage is 177

It also has an unusual feature: the largest cage spans all rows and all columns of the puzzle, I don't remember seeing this before.

The puzzle is easy to solve, i was only focusing on creating a very large cage and not the difficulty.

Congratulation Michaele.
Looks like very fat puzzle.
But don`t forget to verify the main rule of correct puzzle - it must have only one solution.

My solver is choking on michaele's puzzle so far, will need to investigate

I will say I did not spend as much time as usual checking this puzzle, when I have submitted puzzles before I would check and re-check many times. I solved this puzzle without using any guessing, or trial and error, so there should be only one solution.


It is good to know that I am choking your solver
The puzzle is actually very easy, probably too easy, it is only about creating something different and the solution will show that I should have tried harder when creating it.

This is the puzzle I created, it has an unusually large cage just to be different. The largest cage contains almost half the cells in the puzzle.

My picture did not work, I will try that again.

michaele, that's a cool and very enjoyable puzzle Thanks a lot

Thank you bram, it is good to know that you liked it.

Very nice puzzle, Michaele! It looks very difficult, but my solver only uses basic logic. Unbelievable!