Friday, 2 August 2024

Freddie Hand

Congratulations to @clover for winning a well-deserved bonus otter 🦦 today! Keep the guesses coming!

Today's puzzle is a Bramble. I'm going to use the rest of this space to reiterate Menderbug's praises for David Wise's Donkey Kong Country soundtrack - it's probably about the best OST one could wish for, and it's something the younger generation might not have been able to appreciate. I quite enjoy Forest Interlude myself.

By the way, Bramble's ruleset was invented by Menderbug based on a misreading of <a puzzle by poison_island> as <a poison island puzzle>. So really Hot Head Bop is a more appropriate song here.

Rules: Shade some blocks of one or two cells such that no two blocks are orthogonally adjacent and no block crosses a region boundary. All blocks form a diagonally connected network without loops. Two blocks which touch diagonally cannot both be single cells. Number clues indicate the amount of shaded cells in their region.

Here are the last two Brambles in GAPP, both by Menderbug:
- Archive: Saturday, 13 April 2024 (Supersized)
- Archive: Monday, 5 February 2024

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Wrangling Wren 🐦

Example, by Menderbug (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/25f2awpn
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/267rhzbe