Thursday, 11 May 2023

Tyrgannus

Today is a day that marks change for this channel, and one GAPP team has known about for some time. This is my final puzzle as a main GAPP setter. I have dedicated 562 days to provide pencil puzzles to a new generation of solvers (and veterans alike ). It has been an amazing journey and one that has shaped much of the tone of this past year and a little over half. I'm so glad to have had this opportunity and it brought me incalculable joy to see more and more people engage with puzzle types they used to be apprehensive about, yet overtime learned to accept, anticipate, and even be excited for. Would you believe we've covered over 200 genres and 375 rulesets just in the time I set for GAPP? What a trip!

I'll still be around, but I'm taking a break from setting in general and thus stepping away from the team. I won't be leaving any servers this time😅 . We have another setter waiting in the wings, but I certainly won't spoil who it is. Check out the channel for the next few days and see for yourself . My final puzzle will be in the same genre as my first GAPP. I personally like when things are full circle and couldn't resist.

Today's GAPP is a Pentominous!

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of five orthogonally connected cells so that no two regions of the same shape share an edge, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Clued cells must belong to a region with the pentomino shape associated with that letter. Regions may contain any number of clues including zero.

Here are links to the example puzzle

Puzz.link https://tinyurl.com/2p8jfu3j
Penpa+ https://tinyurl.com/ye29tucf

For a Speedy Sloth🦥 , finish in 2:00 or under
For a Quick Crab🦀 , finish in 4:15 or under
Finish with anytime at all for a Farewell Flamingo🐦

Here are links to the main GAPP

Puzz.link https://tinyurl.com/5n94t3m4
Penpa+ https://tinyurl.com/4uz24x29

I hope you enjoyed my puzzles. I hope you continue to enjoy GAPP.