Sunday, 24 April 2022

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I'm using today's puzzle to showcase something that's personally helped me a lot as a solver, so I'm going to pass the knowledge down to some of you who might not do this already!

Auxiliary markings are your friend! Whether it's "X"-ing off edges (or even entire cells) that a loop can't pass through, drawing lines between cells to indicate that they must be part of the same region, shading cells different colors to indicate whether they are inside or outside of a loop, placing dots on corners in Star Battle to indicate that there is a star in that 2x2, or anything else you can come up with, auxiliary markings can help you not have to stress about remembering to visualize certain areas of the puzzle.

In that spirit, today's genre is Nawabari (also known as Territory), a region division genre that is made a lot easier with auxiliary markings!

Rules: Divide the grid into rectangular regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must contain exactly one clue, the value of which represents the number of region borders or grid borders surrounding the clue.

As always, an image of an example puzzle and its solution are attached to the image of today's puzzle. Try the example here, if you're interested (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yckk4b8f

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve today's puzzle in 2:00 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 5:00 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of a Wiggly Wigeon 🐦!

Solve today's GAPP here (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/mrxu74e5