Monday, 16 October 2023

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for Walker's Easy as ABC (Hexagonal): https://youtu.be/LUDtw2qy28s

This week, a whole bunch of competitive puzzle solvers, including bakpao, Menderbug, and Walker from the GAPP team, will be competing in WSPC 2023 in Canada. Wish them luck!

As for today's GAPP, it is a Chiaroscuro, a genre by @PolmanPoppins! I've wanted to make a puzzle in this genre for a while, but only managed to GAPP it now. Enjoy!

Rules: Shade some cells so that each group of shaded or unshaded cells is a unique shape. Shapes that are rotated or reflected are considered the same shape. All shaded groups have an even number of cells, and all unshaded groups have an odd number of cells. Number clues represent the size of the region they occupy.

Finish the puzzle in 2:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 5:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Black-and-white Bulbul 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yn8cmxqx - This example may be a bit tricky
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/ynonxb64