Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Walker

This weekend was a busy one - I walked over 20 miles! So over the start of this week, I’m planning to relax, sit outside, and solve all of my friends’ puzzles that I missed during the weekend. Today’s GAPP is a Tents without any outside numbers, showing off some common deductions involving just tree clues.

Rules: For each tree in the grid, place a tent in an empty orthogonally adjacent cell, connecting to it. Tents may not touch one another, not even diagonally. A clue given outside the grid represents the number of tents in the corresponding row or column.

Here's a GAPP 101: Look for places where, if a tent goes in one direction, another tree has no possible locations for its tents.

Try previous GAPP Tents:
Freddie: Archive: Monday, 3 October 2022
Menderbug: Archive: Saturday, 27 April 2024

Example, from the puzzlink rules page (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/5ed8pbcj

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 an Autumn Forest Robin! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/yckwpy4u