Do you see what I see? Or do not see?
lishogi.org/training/nNpMf
We don't have spoiler tags, otherwise I would have posted what I see is weird in this puzzle but... 🙅
@ladyontheshogiboard Do you mean that ominous row of promoted pawns next to your king? That's the only weird thing I see there.
A clue then: something is missing.
@ladyontheshogiboard Oh I see lot of the pieces that should be either on the board or the hand don't exist at all in this puzzle.
Yep! 👍
Edit: there are puzzles that show only the necessary position but here? I don't know; it feels weird.
Hmmm.. had to cheat to see the answer to this one..
Check out the source of the puzzle, shown on the right side after completing it: syougi.qinoa.com/ja/
This is a really old site from back in the day that allowed you to play shogi online.
They also had a large tsume puzzle section, and the way that they "forced" you to solve it as a tsume was to set up the position, surround your king in an unstoppable wall of pawns, and force you to play against their AI. That way if you didn't find the right checkmate, the bot would simply mate you.
The fact that these puzzles are weird is just an artifact of when lishogi imported them en mass back in the day. They're strange, but still valid puzzles.
