Tuesday, 7 February 2023

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We hope you all enjoyed swap week! I have been asked to post today's puzzle to give your regular GAPP setters a chance to settle back in here, something I'm always happy to do. This puzzle has been sitting in the baklog for a few months, but with this genre being implemented over on puzz.link just recently, now is a great time to post it!

Today's GAPP is a Guide Arrow!

Rules: Shade some empty cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Unshaded cells cannot form a loop and cannot entirely cover a 2x2 area. A cell with an arrow indicates the only direction in which the unshaded cells can travel from that cell to the star, without going through a shaded cell or backtracking.

In the example image, note that the red line is invalid because the star can be reached by travelling to it from the cell containing the arrow in a different direction than the one indicated by the arrow.

Example (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/mrxcykv8
Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/5n89xvvn

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 2:00 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 4:00 or less!
And all who finish get a Guiding Gnatcatcher 🐦!