Wednesday, 22 December 2021

shyeheya

All aboard the Polar Express! 🚂 🌨️ Next stop, the North Pole... Or at least it would be, but this blizzard has blown the whole train apart! 💔 Can you help out the conductor and locate the locomotive within the white-out? There are some clues in the snow, today's GAPP is a classic Tren!

Rules: Locate some train carriages in the grid, each of which either 1x2 or 1x3 in size, which may not overlap each other. Each clue must be used by a carriage and each carriage must contain exactly one clue, the value of which represents how many different locations to which the carriage can be moved by sliding it in either direction of the short end without overlapping another carriage or going out of the grid. Staying stationary does not count as one of these locations.
Sounds like a daunting task, perhaps the example puzzle will clear the air! Give it a stare or a solve below
Example Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/ycxav8yh

Steam-powered solves that accelerate to 4:00 or faster are gifted the Speedy Sloth 🦥
Sliding with haste in 11:00 or faster awards you the Quick Crab 🦀
And all solvers who reassemble the train deserve an Arctic Tern 🐦

Note: For answer check to work all you need is edges drawn around the carriages, but the coloring is available and recommended(!) for determining cells that are or are not part of the train
Play on Penpa+: https://tinyurl.com/2p98s4m9