Friday, 28 June 2024

Walker

Today’s GAPP is a Suguru, also known as Capsules! Though it’s a bit loose, this design is meant to look like a striped prize capsule surrounded by a pinwheel background. I wonder what’s inside?

For a bonus challenge: my first try at writing this genre was on an 8x8 grid with the four corners removed, where the regions were the 12 pentominoes once each. But it turns out that there are no solvable Suguru puzzles with this theme! Can you determine why?

Rules: Place a number into each cell so that each region contains the numbers from 1 to N with no repeats, where N is the number of cells in the region. Numbers of the same value may not touch one another, not even diagonally.

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2p4rszc6

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 Sweepstakes Waxbill! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2fyfl8hb