Friday, 9 June 2023

bakpao

Solution video for yesterday's Shaping the Loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXfOfvBvfg

Some of you were unhappy about losing many seconds to the clock on my previous puzzle (Sandwich) because I forced you to draw all borders around all the shaded cells. I heard your complaints loud and clear, and I want to make it up to you. That's why today I chose another region division genre with shaded cells, but this time, you won't have to draw all the borders! Same time benchmarks as last time, go get your sloths and crabs!

Today's GAPP is a Patchwork!

Rules: Divide the grid into square regions of orthogonally connected cells and shade some white cells black. Cells separated by a region border may not both be black or both be white. Grey cells have no such restriction. A number in a region indicates how many black cells the region contains.

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2dkjtchs
Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/27j4b5sx

Penpa note: Like last time, the input modes Surface (for shading) and Composite -> edgesub (for drawing edges and auxiliary marks) are preselected. Use tab or the buttons at the top to toggle between them.

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 4:00 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 8:00 or less!
And all who finish get a Forgiving Forktail 🐦!