Monday, 26 December 2022

Freddie Hand

It's Boxing Day! Time for some boxing puzzling, even though many people reading this might never have heard of it... Hence we have a Yajisan-Sokoban today. And to be clear, 1226 is the suffix of YYYYMMDD, not the prefix of MMDDYYYY.

Rules: Move some squares in the grid. A square may move only in one straight line vertically or horizontally. Squares’ paths may not cross each other, other squares, or other squares’ starting points. If a cell with a number in it is not covered by a square, the number represents how many squares are in a straight line in the indicated direction. If a cell with a number in it is covered by a square, the number is meaningless.

Example by Eric Fox (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/ycnfjyns

Do check out the previous appearance of this genre in GAPP, also by Eric Fox: https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/1021303360525172836

Solving Note: It may be helpful to use aux markings for this puzzle - you can click on a box to mark it in a darker shade (indicating it has reached its destination) or click on empty cells/cells with a number clue to mark them blue/yellow.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Boxy Blue Bird-of-paradise 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2wvrc962