Monday, 29 January 2024

bakpao

Walkthrough of yesterday's Boomerang: https://youtu.be/6J_a65VBPbo

Time for a baklog puzzle! The approved-for-GAPP version of this puzzle was only finished yesterday, and with posting it the baklog is immediately depleted again
Feel free to inspire me with some other types to write to replenish it!

Today's puzzle is a Fillomino (No Rectangles)!

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Two regions of the same size may not share an edge. Clued cells must belong to a region containing the indicated number of cells. Regions may not be rectangular in shape.

Fillomino has been featured plenty of times before. If you wish to warm up a bit, this previous one by Menderbug is a great fit and also has links to several other prior GAPPs: Archive: Monday, 18 September 2023

❕Interface note: Answer check can be triggered in 3 different ways. Either by 1) drawing all the edges around the regions, 2) entering the correct number in every cell or 3) highlighting every region with a color such that no adjacent regions have the same color.

⚠️ GAPP 101: In this variant, it is not allowed to have regions of size 1 and 2, because these are always rectangular. As a result, unclued polyominoes tend to be a good place to focus, since these always need to grow to at least size 3!

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 a Rule-breaking Returning Rifleman 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yvbry3qe
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yolnt7sd