Sunday, 24 November 2024
Menderbug
Earlier this week, punchingcatto hosted a Slow Setting Contest with the prompt to make puzzles on grids with a triangular outline. People made lots of great puzzles, go check them out: Discord message
(fair warning though, most of them are not GAPP difficulty). My entry was a Triangular Choco Banana, and this Strange-Shaped Sunday seemed like a good opportunity to make a more approachable puzzle with this variant.
When putting genres involving rectangles on a triangular grid, there's a question of how to generalise the rectangle definition. The obvious options are hexagons with opposite sides of equal length and/or triangles. But I quite like this version, where the shaded groups must be convex, which is also a valid way to define the regular Choco Banana rules (which I believe was originally @blotwell's idea: Discord message
).
Rules: Shade some cells so that all areas of edge-connected shaded cells are convex and all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells are concave. A clue represents the size of its group of shaded/unshaded cells. (A shape is convex if all of its internal angles are less than 180°, and concave otherwise.)
GAPP 101: Since it might be a little tricky to imagine what convex shapes are possible, I'm including a diagram in a spoiler below that shows some typical possibilities.
Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Toblerone Tody-Tyrant 🐦!
Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26hoexmp
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22rtdgba
