Monday, 18 July 2022

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Today's GAPP is of a region division puzzle type called Aho-ni-Narikire, often just shortened to Aho! This genre is inherently pretty tricky, so if you get stuck, much like Shikaku, the thing to consider is reachability!

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must contain exactly one clue, the value of which represents the number of cells in the region. If the number of cells in the region is a multiple of 3, the region must be an L shape (a rectangle with another rectangle smaller in both dimensions removed from a corner). If the number of cells in the region is not a multiple of 3, the region must be rectangular.

The definition of an L is kind of weird, but hopefully the example puzzle clears it up: https://puzz.link/p?aho/6/6/36l6k4l3k1l94

Solve today's puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Solve today's puzzle in 10:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
All other solvers will earn an L-drawing Elegant Quail 🐦!

Solve today's GAPP here: https://puzz.link/p?aho/10/10/3o4p5j69l6i1k8p1k9i6l36j6pcof

P.S.: If you found today's intro slightly off, good! Instead of copy-pasting the same things I say in every single other GAPP intro regarding sloths, crabs, the example puzzle, and the formatting of the rules, I decided to trivially change them for literally no reason at all! :D