Sunday, 13 October 2024

Lavaloid

I've been playing Geoguessr a lot lately, but I'm not very good at the game yet. One of the region I really struggle with is South America. For example, I thought today's GAPP is a Cusco, but it's actually a strange-shaped La Paz (Cube).

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and divide the remaining unshaded cells into two-cell regions. Clued cells cannot be shaded.
- A clue indicates the number of shaded cells which lie entirely within the same "row" as the region containing the clue.
- "Rows" bend across the surface of the apparent cube to travel in a “straight” line.

Interface note: Answer check only checks Edge or Line. You may use Line (through Composite > Yajilin) to mark the dominoes or Edge mode to draw the boundaries. If using Edge mode, boundaries touching a shaded cell must still be drawn.

Finish the puzzle in 3:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 7:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Mmm yes this water tank looks like Turkey 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/258owpca
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22zauey9

Lavaloid

Mind the GAPP Vol. 35

Double ping! We don't have anything of note happening this month, so instead here are two questions:
- Have you ever printed any Mind the GAPP volumes, or do you plan to print Mind the GAPP volumes in the future?
- If yes, are you interested in a compact version of Mind the GAPP which excludes the intro, times/birds, links, and possibly the rules?
This is only to gauge interest. If there's enough demand, we may consider it. However, we won't promise that it will happen, as it will be a bit more work for each volume.

Also, we have 7 bonus puzzles this time. Enjoy!

(removed file due to an incorrect link. see the message below for the corrected file)

The Regional Polyominoes had the incorrect link. Thanks radarvillage for noticing the error. Here's the corrected file: