Sunday, 9 January 2022

Freddie Hand

While the Great Crossover Event has really left me hungry for pencil puzzles, it has also left me hungry for food. But all I see are rows and rows of double chocos 🍫🍫. Looking for something healthier, I grab a Chocolate Banana 🍫🍌 off the top shelf, which will hopefully be a more enjoyable treat. Hopefully that means I won't overheat, get things backwards and post a sudoku... r8zbkhyy

Rules: Shade some cells so that all areas of orthogonally connected shaded cells are rectangular and all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells are not rectangular. A clue represents the number of cells in its group of shaded/unshaded cells.

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2p9bp65h (and a version with grey givens, in case visibility is an issue: https://tinyurl.com/4nd2m2kr)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Chocaholic Chaffinch 🐦

Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/3ap82mse (and a version with grey givens: https://tinyurl.com/mr33tev4)