Sunday, 16 June 2024

Menderbug

As someone who thinks about committing crimes against puzzle genres by putting them on non-standard grids a lot, I'm a little disappointed how long it took me to think of today's combination. Please enjoy this Choco Banana (Tetrakis Square)!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all areas of edge-connected shaded cells are rectangular and all areas of edge-connected unshaded cells are not rectangular. A clue represents the number of cells in its group of shaded/unshaded cells.

GAPP 101: Shaded regions always contain an even number of cells. Furthermore, diagonal shaded regions contain a multiple of 4. Unshaded regions can have any size.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 8:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Tilted Stilt 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ctgwoat
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/29j5csfw