Thursday, 12 September 2024

Walker

I’m here for a behind-the-scenes tour at the Regional Polyominoes distribution center. 🏭 Here, polyominoes are stored until they’re ready to be shipped off in puzzles. It’s important that the polyominoes don’t touch, even diagonally - just think of all the genres where that’s forbidden! So we store them in these individual containers. Even so, we need to ensure that the polyominoes don’t touch through the walls of the containers, either…

Rules: Place each shape from the bank given outside the grid so that no two shapes touch, not even diagonally. Each region contains exactly one shape, and shapes do not cross region borders.

Here’s an important GAPP 101: The key to this genre is thinking about cells outside regions! You can mark a cell outside a region as unshaded if shading it wouldn't leave enough space in the region to fit a tetromino, or would only leave space for a tetromino you've already used.

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/4a34fctm

Solve in 2:15 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 4:30 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Docker Dolphin Gull! 🐦

Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/4j3hepv