Friday, 24 March 2023

Eric Fox

Today's puzzle has an unusual ruleset; It's Hamle, and no, I didn't forget a T.
I recommend reading the rest of this message carefully!

Rules (changed to a shading genre presentation, rather than a movement genre): Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining cells form one orthogonally connected area. Each shaded cell must be paired with a clue sharing the same row or column, and they must be the indicated distance apart.

⚠️ Tips for solving + notation: It's important to note that there can exist more than one shaded cell which is N cells away from a clue with value N. There must only exist a unique mapping from the clues to the shaded cells in the solution, which is what the arrows in the example solution are indicating. A good way of notating this genre in Penpa is to use the standard gray/green shading option to mark shaded and unshaded cells, and the circle option to mark clues whose corresponding shaded cells have been placed.

Try the example here: https://tinyurl.com/2fqxzrcx

The times for this puzzle are abnormally high because notation is abnormally difficult.
Solve the puzzle in 5:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth 🦥
Complete it in 11:00 or faster for a Quick Crab 🦀
All successful solvers earn a Hamle Hoatzin 🐦

Solve the puzzle here: https://tinyurl.com/2ena5kec