Thursday, 14 December 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Grandstands https://youtu.be/-20YdeI9dI0

Cross the Streams

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, in order. A question mark represents one block of an unknown number of cells. An asterisk represents any number of blocks of shaded cells, including none at all.

A little GAPP 101: in some situations, shading a particular cell means we don't have enough shaded runs in the row/column.

Here is the previous Cross the Streams appearance in GAPP, by Eric:
- Archive: Monday, 6 December 2021

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 9:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Grave Gyrfalcon 🐦

Example (Penpa+), by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/yvvd7mfk
Puzzle (Puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/23ndexyw

(With thanks to John Cage for the intro idea)