Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Freddie Hand

Ladies and Gentleman, Name That Genre!
* intro music rolls *
Yes, the show where lucky contestants could win over 1680 cells in puzzles!

Now, for 25 cells, name that genre!

"A Latin square puzzle with cages containing a number and an operation"

"KenKen!", you exclaim.

"I'm afraid that is incorrect. Other wrong answers include KenDoku, Calcudoku, Mathdoku, Square Wisdom 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🧙‍♂️and BarbieBarbie 🎎"

The correct answer (and the genre you will be solving today) is TomTom!

Rules: Place a number from 1 to N into each cell so that each row and column contains every number from that range with no repeats, where N is the side length of the grid. A clue represents the value obtained by applying an operation iteratively on the numbers in the region the clue is in. If no operation is given, it may be any of +, -, ×, or ÷. Subtraction and division in regions with more than two numbers are handled by taking the largest number and subtracting/dividing all the others.

Notably, the underlined part of the rules is chiefly where this genre differs from KenKen.

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/386usrf6

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 Nomenclature Nene 🐦

Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2p8dh4sm