Sunday, 16 January 2022

shyeheya

The GAPP tour bus has arrived! 🚌 Welcome to Agra, home of the magnificent Taj Mahal 🛕 Admire the detailed pietra dura, its vast garden and reflective pool, and uh, checks notes... tilted squares connected at the corners, apparently.

Rules: Draw straight lines connecting pairs of grid points to form squares (allowing non-orthogonal lines). Squares may only touch at the corners, and all squares must form one connected network. Circles mark the centers of all squares drawn in the grid. A number in a circle represents how many other squares its square shares a corner with.
Some unusual rules today, the example could be what you need to fully understand it! Solve below or just take a look at it in the image!
Example Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/4ezducjr

Corner the deductions in 3:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥
Tight tiling with a time of 7:20 or faster gets you the Quick Crab 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle go home with a Four-Square Sarus Crane 🐦

Software Note: Unlike the regular line tool, today were using Free Line, which works by clicking one gridpoint and dragging it to another one, creating a line segment between the points (or deleting it, if one is already drawn there). Answer check only goes off for these specific lines, so when you draw them in make sure each line is one side of the square!
Play on Penpa+: https://tinyurl.com/2k7ukty4