Friday, 12 May 2023

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Scrin! Did you know that any Scrin solution consists of shading the cells between two distinct, intersecting loops? Also, did you know that a Scrin solution qualifies as an object, so Scrin is actually an object placement genre?

Actually, don't think about those things. Genre classification is kinda scringe...

Rules: Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a rectangle. The shaded rectangles must all form a single loop through diagonal connections, with no branches. All cells with circles must be shaded, (and must belong to different shaded rectangles,) and if a circle contains a number, its shaded rectangle must contain the indicated number of cells.

You may also wish to try the first appearance of scrin in GAPP, by shye, over one revolution of earth around the sun ago: Archive: Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Scrinkle-Collared Manucode 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by shye(heya): https://tinyurl.com/4xwhy6vs
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/ywv699ru