Saturday, 3 February 2024

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for yesterday's Tilepaint: https://youtu.be/EcWobaCKyyQ

Round 1 of this year's Puzzle Grand Prix has started! The Otter Offer 🦦 is back, and anyone who participates in the contest may claim one. Today's ✨ Supersized Saturday ✨ is a Pentominous, one of the genres featured in this round. Interestingly, we've never had a supersized Pentominous with letter clues, as the other supersized only uses border clues. And yes, U is a word.

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of five orthogonally connected cells so that no two regions of the same shape share an edge, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Clued cells must belong to a region with the pentomino shape associated with that letter (see image). Regions may contain any number of clues including zero. Black cells are not part of any regions.

Finish the puzzle in 4:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 9:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a FLUFFY NZ PIPIT 🐦!

Example (puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/ynef5xdn
Puzzle (puzz.link, horizontal): http://tinyurl.com/4s3kv8y5
Puzzle (puzz.link, vertical): http://tinyurl.com/3cvvj9k8