Sunday, 18 August 2024

Walker

We’ve been a bit low on characters ever since bakpao landed back in the Netherlands. Feel free to claim a bonus otter 🦦 if you guessed today’s genre (Pentopia, you don't need the (Hex)) correctly!

Today, I’ll be thrilled to transmit to you this riddle, titled Pentopia (Hex)! With tiles resembling letters, it’s structurally similar to another riddle; but it’s the littlest bit different in that the title isn’t consisting of the tiles’ initials. This isn’t the first time it’s been written in this series; but in this instance, it’s been instantiated on a six-sided grid, which is stylistically distinct from the standard rectilinear shape. Ideally, this artistic decision will distill the merits of this ruleset!

Rules: Shade some polyhexes of cells so that no polyhexes touch one another, not even diagonally. Each polyhex must match one of the shapes given below the grid. No two shaded polyhexes may be the same shape, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Clued cells cannot be shaded, and contain arrows indicating all of the orthogonal directions which tie for having a shaded cell appearing closest to the clued cell. At least one shaded cell must appear in the direction of an arrow.

Try past GAPP classic Pentopia here:

Freddie: Archive: Friday, 16 December 2022
Bakpao: Archive: Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Example (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/2d893qtc

Solve in 2:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth!
Complete in 4:00 or under for a Quick Crab!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Listless Little Stint! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/22tagwud