Friday, 11 November 2022

Tyrgannus

Hello spelunkers! Today's genre is one that hasn't been done in the channel for quite some time, so I thought we'd take a deep dive. While I do think this genre has the potential to be hard, hopefully this GAPP won't be too rocky especially with the patented genre-specific hint. Just stay cool and use your head to light your way!

Today's GAPP is a Cave!

Rules: Shade some cells so that the shaded cells are all connected orthogonally by other shaded cells to the edge of the grid, and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line vertically or horizontally, including itself.

GAPP 101 Any 2x2 area of a cave puzzle cannot be a checkerboard of shaded and unshaded cells. This is because to connect the unshaded cells and have just one single cave, you would have to wrap around one of the shaded cells, and in turn stop it from connecting to the edge of the grid

This has previously been covered much earlier in GAPP by Shye Archive: Saturday, 27 November 2021 and myself Archive: Saturday, 4 December 2021

Here's a link to the example puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/2p883637

For a Speedy Sloth🦥 , finish in 2:20 or under
For a Quick Crab🦀 , finish in 5:00 or under
Finish with anytime at all for an Underground Ural Owl🐦

Here's a link to the main puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/mvnb892p