Friday, 26 April 2024

bakpao

This weekend we have 4th installment of both the Puzzle Ramayan (Word & Object Placement) and the Puzzle GP (authored by Switzerland). Lavaloid already presented you with a Squares & Rectangles yesterday and today we have another puzzle for you from the GP round. Reminder that the offer for 🦦 B O N U S O T T E R S 🦦 is still active, one for participation in one contest, two for participation in both!

Check out the contests here:
Puzzle Ramayan https://logicmastersindia.com/live/?contest=PR202404
Puzzle GP https://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/puzzle-gp

Today's puzzle is a Loop (Pentomino Walls)!

Rules: Shade some cells and draw a non-intersecting loop that passes through the centers of all remaining unshaded cells. All shaded cells must be pentominoes (contiguous regions of five cells) that do not touch other pentominoes, not even diagonally. Each pentomino must contain exactly one letter clue, corresponding to the shape of the pentomino, counting rotations and reflections as the same.
Note that if the same letter clue is given multiple times, each instance of that letter is part of a separate pentomino.

💻 Interface note: The answer check only checks for the loop. To mark pentominoes you can use Xes or Os in the preselected Lineox mode, or switch to Surface and use shading. None of these will interfere with answer check. Also note that while they do not appear in the image on this post, the actual links contain a shape bank with the relevant pentominoes for that puzzle.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Swiss Serin 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ae6cnu9
Main puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ylf7z73