Thursday, 26 May 2022

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Symmetry Area variant. Standard symmetry area rules apply, except centres of regions are given, region sizes are not given, and areas of the same size may touch orthogonally...

...in an alternate universe where the chicken and egg problem has a different resolution. But no doubt both genres might make your head feel a bit spinny. Today's puzzle is a Tentaisho aka Spiral Galaxies!

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must contain exactly one circle and have 180° rotational symmetry around it.

Puzz.link solving notes:
- You may find it helpful to draw auxiliary lines between cells to indicate that they are part of the same region, as depicted in the example solution. (These are not necessary for answer check).

- Regions should not have internal borders, though the puzz.link checker accepts them. You could consider it a challenge to make the solution as ugly as possible.
(This is also true of at least two other genres on puzz.link - can you guess which? There is a hint in this post!)

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3pr8y55h (direct link: https://puzz.link/p?tentaisho/5/5/kemex8eieice)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:45 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Dizzy D'Orbigny's chat-tyrant 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/nfu969nr (direct link: https://puzz.link/p?tentaisho/9/9/hejcezreeleekegelezxeziel2exejelele)