Crate Cave
(Published on 16. January 2026, 19:29 by KNT)
Additionally, crates may be placed in some unclued, unshaded cells such that no crate shares an edge with either a shaded cell or another crate. Crates block connectivity of unshaded cells.
A clued cell has one of two meanings:
1) The total count of unshaded cells seen in all four directions, including itself, where shaded cells, crates, and the edge of the grid obstruct vision.
2) The total number of crates in the same row or column as the clue cell. No two orthogonally adjacent clues may both be of this type.
An 8x8 example is provided:
Solution code: For each column from left to right, the number of crates in the column.
Comments
on 14. February 2026, 19:41 by skuntsel
Just fantastic, as good as it gets! Didn’t believe until the very end that this has a solution at all given the tiny bit of information. Ridiculously clever, very innovative and too infatuating. Take a bow, KNT!
on 26. January 2026, 20:18 by Mark Sweep
Amazing variation on standard cave!
on 19. January 2026, 16:10 by MagnusJosefsson
Wonderful puzzle! Cave is always great, and this was a fun and fresh new variation.
on 19. January 2026, 00:13 by cyddrdrd
So cool!
on 17. January 2026, 16:08 by Jesper
Fantastic!
on 16. January 2026, 22:53 by Piatato
Cool!
on 16. January 2026, 22:01 by Myxo
Lovely! Really cool ruleset.
on 16. January 2026, 19:35 by KNT
This is an attempt to create a Cave version of Halligen, loosely based off this old ruleset: https://mellowmelon.wordpress.com/corral/crate-corral/
This individual puzzle aside, I think this is a fun idea, and I would welcome more puzzles of this kind by other authors.
