Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Freddie Hand

It's been a long time since the first tatami puzzle (Tatamibari) appeared on GAPP. Unfortunately the category on puzz.link only has 4 genres (ironic seeing as 4-way intersections are disallowed in tatami puzzles) and some of them are quite underwhelming. Today's genre is a little unusual in design, but I believe it can be enjoyable once you've got the hang of it. It is a Yajitatami!

Rules: Divide the grid into regions, each a one-wide straight line of at least two orthogonally adjacent cells. A clue represents both the number of cells in the region it belongs to and the number of regions that appear in a straight line in the indicated direction. Each clue must have a region border immediately in front of it in the indicated direction. Region borders may not form any four-way intersections.

Note: As a consequence of the rules, every numbered clue immediately gives you a 'free' border.

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/47y4n7x7

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Matted Malia 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3exyybz5