Monday, 10 June 2024

bakpao

I'm so sorry! I was planning to write my GAPP for today before my workday started, but I overslept and now I'm in a huge rush and completely ran out of time 😭. In all my haste I only managed to write something half-done... It'll have to do, hopefully it won't pose too much of a problem - just use your imagination! 🤞

Today's puzzle is a Stostone!

Rules: Shade a single group of orthogonally connected cells in each region. A shaded cell in one region cannot share an edge orthogonally with a shaded cell in a different region. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. If all of the shaded groups were to fall straight down without changing shape, they must completely fill the bottom half of the grid.

GAPP 101 🧐: Each column will contain exactly (total rows / 2) shaded cells, or 5 shaded cells in today's puzzle. You can often look at partially completed columns with a lot of unshaded cells in them already to find cells that must be shaded to make the count work!

Interface note 💻: Visualising the blocks falling on top of each other can be challenging. The Drop Blocks button is your friend and will do it for you!

Previous Stostone (Feb/22 by Tyrg): Archive: Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Stoic Stonechat 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, by Tyrg): https://tinyurl.com/25z45kwx
Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/59d69j5t