Tuesday, 30 May 2023

bakpao

It's becoming harder and harder to only cover puzzle types that have never featured in GAPP before. While there are overwhelmingly many of them still out there, finding one that stands out enough to want to write a puzzle in it, and which is suitable for making a GAPP level puzzle at the same time, often takes up as much time as actually writing the puzzle itself. Thankfully, there's always still variants on genres we've covered already to rely on!

Today's GAPP is a Nurikabe [Pairs]!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly two clues and has an area equal to the sum of the clues.

If you wish to warm up on the genre a bit before attempting the puzzle, Nurikabe has been featured in GAPP many times before, including many variants. These can all be easily accessed by entering nurikabe in:daily-pencil-puzzles in the search bar.

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2mn7dbas
Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2fa4hxco

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 3:10 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 6:20 or less!
And all who finish get a Mutualist Myna 🐦!