Thursday, 18 April 2024

Freddie Hand

Today's Statue Park (Labels) is, technically speaking, not a variant. The inventor of this genre, Palmer Mebane, mentioned labels here as an additional feature of the genre, but never found the need to use them in any statue park puzzles.

If this surprised you, then you'll be shocked to learn that X was originally called Twitter. Yeah, I have no idea how pentomino puzzles worked back then either.

Rules: Place each shape from the shape bank into the grid exactly once such that no two shapes share an edge, and all unused cells form one orthogonally connected area. Rotating and reflecting shapes is allowed. Cells containing a black circle must be used by a shape, and cells containing a white circle must not be used by a shape.

Additionally, some black circles are labelled. The shape containing a labelled black circle must have a matching label.

Here are the previous appearances of Statue Park in GAPP:
2023-04-22-eric: Archive: Saturday, 22 April 2023
2023-01-24-jovi: Archive: Tuesday, 24 January 2023
2022-02-10-jovi: Archive: Thursday, 10 February 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Renaissance Rockrunner 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26ny4cec (https://4d0u.short.gy/ihliXi)
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/bdwbxmpb (https://4d0u.short.gy/p2DkaG)

(Additional links in case tinyurl is not working)