Thursday, 25 April 2024

Lavaloid

I had prepared a different puzzle for today, then I realized that Puzzle GP round 4 and Puzzle Ramayan round 4 will both be starting tomorrow and I wanted to set a puzzle from one of them. As always, there is an Otter Offer 🦦 available: anyone who participates in a round can claim an otter. If you participate in both, you can get two otters! 🦦🦦

Today's puzzle is a genre from Puzzle GP round 4 called Squares & Rectangles.

Rules:
- Divide the grid into rectangles along the grid lines such that each cell is in exactly one rectangle and each rectangle contains exactly one clue (a black diamond or a white bar).
- Each black diamond must be in a rectangle where the height and the width are the same (i.e. a square). Each white bar must be in a rectangle where the height and the width are different.
- Any two orthogonally adjacent regions must have different areas.

Finish the puzzle in 2:20 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:40 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Last Minute Little Minivet 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26erlnmn
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ah38y4t