Monday, 3 April 2023

bakpao

Thank you all for your suggestions last time when I asked what to set next for the baklog. In typical me fashion, I ignored all of them and set something completely different. Okay, not really, I just chose some other genres first and hadn't gotten around to setting from the suggestion pool, and the baklog is being called upon sooner than I anticipated. Maybe next time!

Today's GAPP is an Island!

This is a genre by Naoki Inaba with some similiarities to Kurotto and Oasis, genres we've featured in the past. It caught my eye after featuring in the qualifier for the Dutch puzzle championships last month (where I made an unnecessary and avoidable mistake in the puzzle ).

Rules: Shade some cells such that the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. A clue indicates how many unnumbered unshaded cells it can reach by moving horizontally and vertically without traveling through any other numbered cells or shaded cells. Clues cannot be shaded.
(note in the example solution the clue cells count for connectivity - the green and white cells are both unshaded, the different color is just to illustrate how clue fulfillment works)

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2eblluv2
Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2olrjbl7

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 3:30 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 7:00 or less!
And all who finish get an Inaccessible Island Rail 🐦!