Friday, 24 November 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Domino Field: https://youtu.be/eUFrmAOme5M

A lot of puzzle variants tend to be harder than the corresponding genres. But paradoxically, just as there is a word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it, there is a variant which makes any genre easier.

Here is an Easy as Coral!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and the unshaded cells are all connected orthogonally by other unshaded cells to the edge of the grid. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. A clue outside the grid represents the length of the first run of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column from the direction of the clue.

Here's the usual important Coral disclaimer in the form of a GAPP 101 stolen from Menderbug's Coral post: Much like with Cave or Yin-Yang, there can never be a 2x2 checkerboard of shaded and unshaded cells. This is because to connect the shaded cells, you have to 'wrap around' one of the unshaded cells, preventing it from connecting to the edge of the grid.

Here are the past appearances of Coral in GAPP:
- 2023-06-10-mbug: Archive: Saturday, 10 June 2023 (Supersized)
- 2023-04-09-fred: Archive: Sunday, 9 April 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Cnidarian Cundinamarca Antpitta 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yupfm6r4
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/ynewnzpq