Thursday, 23 May 2024

Freddie Hand

We usually don't do variants before genres on GAPP, but this Tetrominous was preceded by its hex version. And for nothing at all, can you name a capital city and a puzzlink genre that can be made from the letters in LITSO?

If you can find two such capital cities or two such puzzlink genres then you're free to have an otter 🦦 (I didn't check if there are any).

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of four orthogonally connected cells such 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 tetromino shape associated with that letter. Black cells are not part of any region.

Note: If you don't know what the tetromino shapes are, all five of them are shown in the example solution. An easy way to remember them is: I looks like "I", O looks like "O", L looks like "L", T looks like "T" (though a pretty short one), and S looks like "S" (kind of).

Here's Walker's Tetrominous (Hex) puzzle:
2024-04-07-walker: Archive: Sunday, 7 April 2024

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Returning Rain Quail 🐦

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/h6fmase6
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/ym2n5jr7