Monday, 26 June 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Kurodoko by Menderbug: https://youtu.be/Z0n2LyzDUhE

Today's puzzle is a Shugaku/School Trip! Can you place down all the beds before a pillow fight breaks out?

Rules: Place some non-overlapping 1x2 beds into the grid such that each bed contains a pillow on one of its cells, and that vertically oriented beds do not have the pillow on the top half. Shade all of the non-bed cells such that each bed is orthogonally adjacent to at least one shaded cell, all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected network, and no 2x2 regions of cells are entirely shaded. Cells containing circles cannot be shaded cells nor beds, and if a circle is numbered, it indicates the number of cells containing pillows orthogonally adjacent to it.

It may be unwise to sleep on the previous appearances of Shugaku:

jovi_al (supersized) - Archive: Saturday, 18 June 2022

shye - Archive: Friday, 13 May 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Snoozing Siau Pitta 🐦

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3jsd8ufc
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/mvmt2msm

GAPP 101: Two little hints:
- Think about the implications of diagonal clue pairs with a difference of 2.
- Think connectivity! Especially, when there are bottlenecks which the shaded cells have to pass through to stay connected.