Monday, 6 February 2023

Philip Newman

Howdy, folks! Today is a perfectly ordinary Groundhog Day here at GAPP HQ. The temperature is a crisp 26 degrees Celsius with prevailing winds out of the southwest, and it’s looking like the blizzard on the horizon is going to miss us entirely. Of course, if Punxsutawney Philip...

...wait, is that Punxsutawney Philip over there playing Mozart's Piano Sonata 16*?? When did he learn to play the piano? And... carving ice sculptures of sloths with his tail?? I could have sworn he was scared of his own shadow, but here he is confidently entertaining a foreign channel.

NO. No way. He made a pencil puzzle too?? Where did he find the time to do all this?!

Today's GAPP is a Norinori! (Is that two "nori"s, or did I just have déjà vu all over again?)

Rules: Shade some 1x2 dominoes of cells so that every region contains exactly two shaded cells. Shaded dominoes may not touch orthogonally. Dominoes may exist in multiple regions but are not required to.

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve the puzzle in 1:15 or less!
For a Kwik Krab 🦀, solve the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Grounded Grebe 🐦!

Example by Tyrgannus
Play in puzzlink: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k4xkn

Today's Puzzle:
Play in puzzlink: https://tinyurl.com/397u6jsu

And if you missed it last year, here's a supersized one from Freddie Hand! https://discordapp.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/941902802245017671


* I had totally forgotten this piece is in the movie**!
** Yes, I rewatched the movie just to write this intro.