Sunday, 23 June 2024

Walker

GAPP is visiting the trainyard today! 🚉 🚂 The Tren storage area has recently undergone a renovation. In the old, square layout, it was easy for the trains to block each other; to get a train out during rush hour, you’d often need to slide other trains out of the way. This new Hexagonal layout gives an extra degree of freedom, as trains can point in three directions instead of just two! Surely this will make it easier to move the trains around; I hear the upper right #2 needs to depart from the lower left exit soon…

Rules: Locate some blocks in the grid, each of which are either 1x2 or 1x3, which may not overlap each other. Each clue must be used by a block and each block must contain exactly one clue, the value of which represents how many different locations to which the block can be moved by sliding it in the direction of its short end without overlapping another block or going out of the grid. Staying stationary does not count as one of these locations.

Note: It can be helpful to think of the number as the sum of the numbers of open cells past each end of the train! In particular, a 0 train must be blocked on both ends.

Try some past GAPP classic Tren:

shye: Discord message
Freddie: Archive: Friday, 20 January 2023

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/27yz8vvo

Solve in 3:15 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 Turntable Turnstone! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/242exaxq