Thursday, 8 August 2024

Walker

Congrats to @MikoKisai, @Vornicus, @Jonathan Chaffer, @malbolgian, @Malrog, @Calump, @Rook, @Marco, @Lorem, @jw, @AkashG23 ♛, @Cow, @dangernoodle, @GarlicBredFries, @kino, @Shogia, @jonn, @jettyx, @Dexter345 for correctly guessing today’s genre and earning a bonus otter! 🦦

It’s late summer here at GAPP HQ! It feels great outside; I like to drink a glass of ice water 🥤, put on some video game music or albums off my backlog 🎶, and solve some puzzles on physical paper or from a book 📝. But there are also a lot of bugs, and they can be distracting! 🦟 And so, right now, I’m solving from behind a Scrin door. The rectangles keep out bugs while still letting the evening air through!

Rules: Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a rectangle. The shaded rectangles must all form a single loop through diagonal connections, with no branches. All cells with circles must be shaded, (and must belong to different shaded rectangles,) and if a circle contains a number, its shaded rectangle must contain the indicated number of cells.

(Said another way, the "no branches" rule means that each rectangle is diagonally adjacent to exactly two others.)

Try past GAPP Scrin:

shye: Discord message
Freddie: Archive: Friday, 12 May 2023

Example (puzzlink), by shye: https://tinyurl.com/4xwhy6vs

Solve in 1:45 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 3:30 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Long-Tufted Screen Owl! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/5n7rrhk2