Monday, 25 September 2023

Walker

Here’s a walkthrough for Freddie’s Hexagonal Kakuro: https://youtu.be/-FfpHIXNA-E

I’ve been seeing some strange genre names recently… Have you ever seen a Shaka puzzle? Or a Nori? It wasn’t until I solved a Ring today that I realized the problem: I must be seeing single! Today’s puzzle has lots of dominoes… so it must be a Domino Domino!

Rules: Place 1x2 blocks in the grid, each with either two As or two Bs, which don’t overlap each other. Blocks of the same letter may not touch one another orthogonally. All of the blocks must form a single orthogonally connected area, but cannot fully occupy any 2x2 region. Cells with letters must be occupied by a domino of the indicated letter.

Note: Answer check will activate on any one of the following:
- shading all cells that don’t contain dominoes
- drawing all edges of dominoes inside the grid
- placing all (non-given) capital letters inside dominoes
Feel free to use whatever notation makes sense for you! Personally, I like to shade the dominoes green (A) and blue (B), which lets me stay in Shading mode for the entire solve.

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/24h3kw4a

Solve in 3:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 7:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Hush-hush Caracara! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2aa5nbs3