Sunday, 25 June 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Supersized Guide Arrow: https://youtu.be/ZseCuXovIqU

It's time for everyone's favourite seri... what's this? Yes? Oh okay, I see. Anyway! As I was saying, it's time for just another one-off Strange-Shaped Sunday! Today's puzzle is a Kurodoko, also known as Kuromasu, on a rhombitrihexagonal tiling. Kurodoko has been covered previously by Shye ( Archive: Thursday, 11 August 2022). Give that a go if you want to warm up with a normal grid first. On this tiling, the line-of-sight rules interact a bit... strangely with the triangle cells, so I've included a diagram to visualise what exactly each type of cell can see.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells share an edge and the remaining unshaded cells form one connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line, including itself. Line of sight does not extend past triangle cells.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of an Amethyst-Throated Mountaingem 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2a3a2rj3
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/27evkwoa