Friday, 24 May 2024

Walker

Here is today's Genuinely Approachable Pencils Puzzle! Sorry, no fun intro ideas today; I have a bit of writer’s block, and have had trouble putting pen to paper. I’ve tried to sketch out some ideas, but each one leaves me back at the drawing board…

Rules: Place some pencils in the grid, each consisting of a 1xN body with a tip occupying an extra cell at one end, and draw a path of graphite which is N cells long starting at its tip. Pencils and paths must occupy the entire grid without overlapping one another. A cell with a number must be part of the body of a pencil of the given length. Given pencil tips must be used where they are.

Note: You can have pencils without given number or pencil tip clues! Also, I'd recommend playing around with the interface on the example puzzle; it can be a bit finicky.

Here’s a GAPP 101: A leftover space of area 5 must contain a single length 2 pencil (and length 3 for area 7). Try to place the pencil so that the line extending from the tip can fill the remaining cells.

Try the past GAPP Pencils:
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Example (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/4arx4njr

Solve in 3:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 6:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Eraserra Finch! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/2ma9zjxf