Monday, 5 February 2024

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's hexagonal Yajilin: https://youtu.be/KgsYYfeF9HA

A few weeks ago, I came up with a new genre that I'm quite fond of. This is Bramble, but instead of telling you about the genre I will let the puzzle speak for itself and use this space to gush about David Wise and how Stickerbush Symphony is one of the best pieces of video game music ever written. Juxtaposing the serene vibe of this track with some of the notoriously hardest levels of the game was pure genius. Don't worry, today's puzzle does not share that difficulty, but you should definitely listen to the track while solving it anyway.

Rules: Shade some blocks of one or two cells such that no two blocks are orthogonally adjacent and no block crosses a region boundary. All blocks form a diagonally connected network without loops. Two blocks which touch diagonally cannot both be single cells. Number clues indicate the amount of shaded cells in their region.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:12 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:24 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of Squawks the Parrot 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/25f2awpn
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/234zuogh