Saturday, 1 July 2023

Freddie Hand

Crosswallkthrough Walkthrough for yesterday's Crosswall: https://youtu.be/ESS_xE5N0D0

How would you place your ships in a battleships game? Personally, I like some of them to touch diagonally (rarely orthogonally - there's an obvious risk there) and leave large areas of the board empty to throw off opponents. While the latter may be possible here, the former certainly won't be in this Battleships (Supersized) puzzle.

Rules: Place the given fleet of ships into the grid so that no two ships are touching, not even diagonally. Rotating ships is permitted. A clue outside the grid indicates the number of cells in the corresponding row or column that are occupied by ships. Cells with waves cannot be occupied by a ship. A given ship segment must be used as the part of a ship that its shape represents.

Note carefully the last part of the rules! As seen in the example, a square must be in the middle of a ship, and a "half sausage" must be at the end of a ship, with the ship extending outwards in the expected direction. In other words, it must match the corresponding shape in the ship given in the fleet below.

Also, remember that for the GAPP the fleet has one ship of size 5, two of size 4, and so on.

I'll let you guess the location of the first Battleships GAPP. Consider it a game of solitaire battleships.

Though since most people don't seem to find that very fun, here is the link. It's by Tyrgannus - Archive: Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Submerged Seaside Sparrow 🐦

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/26ejnup6
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/f5tdee8z