Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Loop 12: https://youtu.be/LMv2C23Rh78

Time to gather round, everyone. We have a horde of otters to give out today. I can't tag everyone in this post but I can say that 17 people correctly predicted today's puzzle to be a 2-1 Tiles, which is more than triple the number of correct guesses on any other day so far. 🦦 🦦 🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦🦦 Quite the mystery, don't you think? Hopefully this doesn't continue or we'll definitely run out...

Rules: Place 1x2 tiles into the grid, each containing a 1 in one cell and a 2 in the other. Tiles may not touch one another, not even diagonally. A clue outside the grid indicates the sum of the numbers in the corresponding row or column.

Solving Note: Tabbing between shading mode (to mark cells as occupied/not occupied by a tile) and sudoku mode is recommended for completing this puzzle.

A little GAPP 101 for today: Since no two dominoes can touch diagonally, no two diagonally adjacent cells can both contain a number.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 8:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Calzone Comoros Fody 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2an54jr2
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/28x7vrhx