Sunday, 20 October 2024

Menderbug

Penpa's built-in isometric grid always feels a little disappointing to me because there's really only one spot in the grid where it's meaningfully different from a square grid. There's a lot of interesting things you could do on arbitrary diamond tilings, but of course implementing those would be a lot more challenging than any of the existing grids. That said, if you get a bit creative, you can fake diamond tilings via other means (with some caveats, see below). Here's an Isometric Isowatari. An Isometari, if you will.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all unshaded cells form one connected area and no vertex (point where edges meet) is entirely surrounded by unshaded cells. Black circles must be shaded and white circles must be unshaded. All groups of shaded cells must be the size indicated above the grid. (Note: the example uses size 3, but the main puzzle uses size 4.)

📝 Interface note 📝: For technical reasons, each cell in the grid is actually made up of two triangles, which you'll have to shade/unshade separately.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Cubist Cuban Crow 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22hqtsa4
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22hevve7