Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is just a plain old Nagenawa. Nothing else to see here. Once you've solved the puzzle, there is little more to do than claim your animal.

Rules: Draw rectangular loops through the centers of some empty cells. The sides of different rectangles may intersect each other, but not turn at their intersection or otherwise overlap.  A number in a region represents how many cells in the region are visited by the loops.

Do feel free to check out the first time this genre appeared in GAPP here: https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/946655617702068245 (by jovi_al, who else would you expect for a crossing genre)

Example, also by jovi_al (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2k4xdvje

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Crossy Carunculated Caracara 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2n4prde9

Freddie Hand

Some of you may have suspected that there was a little more to this puzzle than met the eye. And you would be correct! Today's nagenawa also works as an Aqre! (emoji) :pika: (As shrewdly noted by some solvers in #daily-pencil-puzzle-discussion)

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. There may not exist a run of four or more consecutive shaded or unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid.

Aqre has appeared twice before! The puzzles can be found here: https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/911697154597330974 (by shye) https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/993017085888315433 (by jovi_al, just a few days ago)

Example, also by jovi_al (again!) (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yayv6utu

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Doppelgänger Dapple-throat 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4ct8vjk7