Wednesday, 3 January 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's La Paz: https://youtu.be/tdU6bSHyP7s

In case there are any UTC-1:12:00 folks, here's another New Year's 2024 puzzle. An alien civilisation may be very confused by this Tetrochain by the time it comes round to 4022.

Rules: Shade some tetrominoes of cells such that no two tetrominoes touch each other orthogonally, but all tetrominoes form one diagonally connected network. Two tetrominoes of the same shape may not touch diagonally, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in a straight line in the indicated direction.

This genre has occurred a couple of times already in GAPP:
2023-03-20-eric: Archive: Monday, 20 March 2023
2023-05-13-eric: Archive: Saturday, 13 May 2023 (Supersized)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Futuristic Fieldfare 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by Eric Fox: http://tinyurl.com/24xk35wx
Puzzle (Puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/mrx7f24h