Monday, 21 February 2022

Tyrgannus

Yesterday's GAPP was the fabled and often memed Curve Data and I think I've caught the meme bug🪲. This, coupled with my penchant for genres with longer rulesets, has led to the inevitable genre. I assure you, this is more meta than modern sitcoms. Something I really had to jot down. You know, I just had to draw it up. One might even say I had to pencil it in 😎

Today's GAPP is a Pencils

Rules: -Fill every cell of the grid with either pencils or lines that extend from pencil tips.
-Lines go through the centers of cells and must move vertically, horizontally, and may optionally turn.
-The length of these lines is equal to the length of each pencil it is attached to not counting the pencil tip. For example, a length 2 pencil would have a line cross 2 cell borders.
-Pencils are always 1 cell wide and cannot bend/turn. All pencils have exactly one tip on one end.
-Number clues must always be part of a pencil and indicate the number of cells in length of that pencil NOT including the pencil tip. Multiple number clues may exist in the same pencil. ? clues are numbers of unknown value.
-Pencil tip clues act as givens and indicate the end of a pencil that must extend behind it.
-Pencils may exist without a number clue, pencil tip clue, or either clue.


Very long ruleset today, hence the dashes to hopefully help you out. Much like previous long rulesets we've covered like Herugolf, this is far more intuitive than it seems from just reading the rules. I strongly suggest playing around in the example if you've never done one of these before, both to get acquainted with the rules, and also to get used to the admittedly fiddly interface.

Here's a link to today's example puzzle https://tinyurl.com/2hrm748c

For a Speedy Sloth🦥 , finish in under 2:15
For a Quick Crab🦀 , finish in under 5:45
Finish with anytime at all for a Graphite Grand Munia🐦

Here's a link to today's GAPP https://tinyurl.com/4d7ekx8d