Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Sukoro/Infection: https://youtu.be/jIOdreLJF6g

Here is another recent invention. This genre from Japanese author 畠入 is called Hasu no Mura which, I believe, translates to something like "diagonal village". The rules aren't particularly complicated, but the way the clues work is still oddly unintuitive at first, so I recommend staring at the provided example (and extra diagram) until they make sense. That said, once you're past this small initial hurdle, I believe this genre has a lot of interesting logic. If you'd like to see more of these, you can find a bunch on Puzzle Square: https://puzsq.logicpuzzle.app/?kind=675

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 indicate the sum of the areas of the unshaded regions using the (up to 4) cells diagonally adjacent to the clue. (This may include the region the clue is in, and if a region uses multiple diagonal neighbours, it is only counted once.)

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Diagonal Village Weaver 🐦!

Example (Penpa+) by Shye: https://tinyurl.com/yt5pzfdz
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yp2w72k3