Monday, 16 May 2022

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Fillomino (symmetry), a variant of fillomino. But it's one of the few variants which gets its own implementation in puzz.link, known there as Symmetry Area!

Can you guess the only puzz.link genre which has two variant implementations? That's right, it's ichimaga! The variants in question are magnetic ichimaga and crossing ichimaga. Just stay away from Toichika's variant, creatively named Toichika2, because nobody has solved* the only puzzle in the genre yet. Although it is by Eric Fox, so maybe don't stay away.

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Two regions of the same size may not share an edge. Clued cells must belong to a region containing the indicated number of cells. A region may contain multiple clues.

Variant: All regions must have 180° rotational symmetry.

Puzz.link note - Not all numbers need to be filled, but each region must have at least one number entered for the checker to work.

In case you need a refresher on how Fillomino works, here are the previous occurrences of the genre in GAPP: Archive: Sunday, 2 January 2022 (by clover!) and Archive: Friday, 14 January 2022 (by me)

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4f2e8wvn

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 Rotational Rockwarbler 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yckupwa7

*logged it as solved on puzz.link