Monday, 17 July 2023

Walker

Here’s a walkthrough for yesterday’s Japanese Railway by Freddie: https://youtu.be/SoVYG-MTxFc

Today’s puzzle is a Utopia! The ruleset is similar to Big Core, which Freddie covered for GAPP last December: Archive: Friday, 2 December 2022 I've also been eating an apple and visiting the gym every day! Though, well... I don't actually go in the gym, my daily walk just passes by the entrance...

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells, each containing exactly one clue, the value of which represents the number of cells in the region. Each region must contain exactly one complete 2x2 area, and different regions’ 2x2 areas may not touch orthogonally.

For a hint about the main idea of this puzzle, check out this GAPP 101: The 34 region visits all the squares not covered by other regions, and once it contains the 2x2 square in the top center, it can’t contain any other 2x2 squares.

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2jfsgxn5

Solve in 2:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 4:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Grandiose Greater Bird-Of-Paradise! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2jvakafy