Sunday, 7 April 2024

Walker

GAPP has featured Pentominous several times, but as far as I can tell, never on a hex grid. There are 22 pentahexes, which can be a bit too many to work with or label; so here’s a Tetrominous (Hex), featuring the 7 tetrahexes. And for a bonus otter 🦦, can you answer these clues with words made from just the letters in SPOLICY?

- a flavor
- a capital of a country
- a mythical creature
- a musical instrument
- a puzzlink genre [not abbreviated, "sloop" doesn’t count!]

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of four 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 tetrahex shape associated with that letter.

Feel free to check out past GAPP Pentominous puzzles:
First, by Tyrgannus: Discord message
Most recent, by Shye: Archive: Monday, 19 February 2024

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2cyorlg3

Solve in 2:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 5:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Silly Piopio! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2c8uqd87