Monday, 31 January 2022

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A quick reminder that PANFOPCWHTTAPA 2, the second in a series of pencil puzzle contests designed to be your first competitive experience, is still active for a bit longer! See this post for more info: Discord message !

Oh no! This grid has given digits! Could it be that you've accidentally landed in #daily-sudoku-puzzles?
Oh, wait, no. All of them are given. Some repeat in rows and columns, too, so this definitely isn't any kind of Latin Square I've ever seen.

I don't like that. Let's just... get rid of the repeats and pretend it's a normal Latin Square. Sounds good? Good! Today's genre is Hitori!

Rules:
Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No two cells in the same row or column containing the same number may both be unshaded.

As always, attached to the image of today's puzzle is an example puzzle and its solution. Feel free to try the example puzzle here (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/29tn2e6v

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve today's puzzle in 1:23 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 3:45 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of a Unique Unicolored Jay 🐦

Solve today's GAPP here (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yc3rf7vf

Software note: to make scanning easier, check the "show overlapped number as red" box near the top of the screen. You can also turn that off using the same feature, if you want to solve it as if you were solving on paper :)