Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Freddie Hand

Today's genre may be the long-lost cousin of Gems and Stones (covered by Eric way back in the day), except a little harder to guess which colour corresponds to which object. And apparently gold and diamond can't stand being next to each other. It is a Golds and Diamonds!

Rules: Place some white circles and black circles in the grid so that each cell contains at most one circle. Bolded cells are clues and may not contain circles. The top left/bottom right number in a clue cell indicates the number of white circles/black circles in the (up to) 8 surrounding cells. White circles cannot touch black circles, not even diagonally. The number of white/black circles is given in this puzzle.

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/y9dndj9w

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Gold Studded Smew 🐦

Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/29bp334m