Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Ayeheya: https://youtu.be/3UdTZ8HgENE

How many genres can you think of that share a name with another genre? Eric's rules document lists 7 such pairs (there might be more where one is only listed as a synonym for another). Here is another pair that is not on the document: you might be familiar with the Nikoli genre Nawabari, which until recently was called Territory on puzz.link (we covered it on GAPP a while back). However, the reason it was renamed is that there is also a genre called Territory by Naoki Inaba and it's a lot more interesting than Nawabari if you ask me.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the area of the largest rectangle of unshaded cells containing the clue.

In the example solution I have indicated some of these maximal rectangles. Note that a clue may be contained in multiple such rectangles (e.g. the 4 in the middle), and a clue's rectangle may encompass another clue (e.g. the 3 at the bottom).

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Inaba Woodstar 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/2x37bvxs
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/ylbzyvzd