Here’s a walkthrough for yesterday’s Inverse LITSO by Freddie, explained by jovi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG-IF2K2m8A

On today’s episode of How It’s Made: GAPP, we’ll be taking a look at pentominoes. 🏭 🧑‍🏭 At the GAPP pentomino factory, these shapes with Five Cells are manufactured starting from a Supersized 15-by-15 sheet of squares. A skilled solver uses the provided number markings to divide the sheet into pentominoes. A single sheet produces 45 pentominoes, which can later be used in genres such as Statue Park and Pentopia. Would you like to give it a try?

Check out the first appearance of Five Cells by Freddie here: Discord message

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of 5 orthogonally connected cells. (i.e. pentominoes). Clued cells must have the indicated number of region borders or grid borders surrounding them. For clarification, P pentominoes cannot have internal borders.

Notation Tip: You can draw auxiliary connecting lines by dragging between the centers of cells. While these do not have to be drawn for the checker to trigger, they are very helpful for solving.

For help with a common pattern in this puzzle, check out this GAPP 101: Two adjacent 1 clues can’t be part of the same pentomino, because any shape containing both of them would need to be at least 6 squares large.

Example (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/5749r3ns

Solve in 6:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 12:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Slicing Square-Tailed Saw-Wing! 🐦

Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/9mvktkxh

Walkthrough for yesterday's FiveCells, as explained by me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gDbjGtABbI

Hello everyone! Do you sometimes open a puzzle and think "wait, have I solved this before?" I don't know how that could be the case with today's LITS, though-- it definitely looks very distinct from all recent GAPPs and definitely doesn't have anything in common with any recent GAPPs.

Rules: Shade one tetromino of cells in each region so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Two tetrominoes of the same shape may not touch orthogonally, counting rotations and reflections as the same. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

As always, an example puzzle and its solution are attached with the image of today's puzzle. Solve that example here, if you wish (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/bdcvrzfn

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve today's puzzle in 2:00 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 5:00 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of an Uncanny Unfezant 🐦 !

Solve today's puzzle here (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3p6f5he5