Friday, 15 November 2024

Freddie Hand

It's been a long time since our last Pentominous (Borders). I like the fact that this variant is completely independent of pentomino labelling decisions. So I'd like to propose a new naming system to be used in today's puzzle:

F: God
I: -_-
L: The Walking Stick
N: Z
P: The Blob
T: ⊥
U: The Crab
V: The Chevron
W: Waluigi
X: The Blokus Opening
Y: Yasmin
Z: Zachary

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of five orthogonally connected cells so that no regions of the same shape share an edge, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Clued cells must belong to a region with the pentomino shape associated with that letter. Borders must separate two different regions.

I've included Penpa+ links in case you like prefer to solve pentomino puzzles with colouring; this should work with answer check since Penpa+ treats edges between two different colours as being drawn in.

The previous GAPP puzzles in this variant can be found here:
Archive: Saturday, 15 April 2023 (Supersized) by jovi
Archive: Thursday, 9 June 2022 by Tyrg

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Conway Congo Peafowl 🐦

Example (Puzz.link, by jovi): https://tinyurl.com/4dyaa8ks
Example (Penpa+, by jovi): https://tinyurl.com/2ypkoltq
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/23n9287h
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22eqw7j8