Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Equal Measures, explained by Riri: https://youtu.be/Zhe3YECwC-0

Usually, walls in puzzles look nothing like walls in real life (a medieval worker who built a castle wall like a castle wall loop would certainly be executed). This wall may be just as unrealistic but at least it's built with real bricks. It's a Nurikabe (Domino)!

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 one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. ? clues can represent any positive integer.

Variant: It must be possible to divide the shaded cells into non-overlapping dominoes.

Solving Note: The suggested notation for this puzzle is standard shading + lines to represent dominoes, but it is also possible to avoid tabbing altogether using only lineox mode.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Pizza Plushcap 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/27s6kgef
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2d3yd822