Friday, 21 April 2023

Freddie Hand

🚨 PUZZLE CONTEST ALERT 🚨
Before we jump in, I should mention that Puzzle Ramayan Round 6 (Regions and Loops) (puzzles by Nityant Agarwal and Prasanna Seshadri ) is going on right now! It will be open until April 27th. For more details, see this post - Discord message - or see the direct links to the contest page below:

Paper solving: https://logicmastersindia.com/live/main?contest=PR202306
Online solving: https://logicmastersindia.com/live/main?contest=PR202306&online=true

Attempting the contest makes you eligible for a bonus otter 🦦. And beating bakpao may give you a rotating egg - sadly I do not have the power to award it to myself...

Today's puzzle is a Mirror Block, which used to be of the newest genres implemented into puzz.link.
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ꓕoqɑλˌƨ bnzzɼԍ ᴉƨ ɑ Wᴉʁʁoʁ Bɼocĸˋ ʍμᴉcμ nƨԍq ϝo pԍ oɻ ϝμԍ uԍʍԍƨϝ მԍuʁԍƨ ᴉwbɼԍwԍuϝԍq ᴉuϝo bnzz·ɼᴉuĸ·

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. A number indicates the number of cells in its region, and no region may contain more than one number. A double line represents a mirror, and divides two regions. These regions must have reflectional symmetry across the mirror.
Some clarifications: A region and its reflected equivalent count as two separate regions, so each may contain a number. Not all regions have to touch mirrors. Not all regions need to contain a number.

Do feel free to check out the first appearance of this genre in GAPP, from jovi_al: Archive: Friday, 25 November 2022

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 , solve in 3:15 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 , solve in 7:15 or less!
And all who complete the puzzle get a Bᴉʁq 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by jovi_al: https://tinyurl.com/33en6f4j
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3t73ay3v