Monday, 15 April 2024

Walker

A thermo on GAPP? 🌡️ Today’s puzzle is a Thermometers! I was curious about which genre came first, but wasn’t able to determine the answer. I believe Thermo Sudoku first appeared in the Mutant Sudoku book in 2009; and the WPC Wiki says that Thermometers appeared in the 2010 World Puzzle Championship, but was probably published in Puzzler magazine before then. It's nice that the thermometers get filled in with mercury here; but without numbers, it's difficult to know what temperature it is 😅

Rules: Add shaded cells to some thermometers such that the numbers outside the grid indicate how many cells in their corresponding row or column are filled. Shaded cells always start filling a thermometer from the bulb and moves toward each end.

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2d2v3x8f

Solve in 2:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 4:30 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Temperate Temminck's Lark! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/22mmgd8l