Thursday, 2 January 2025

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Happy new year to everyone!

I'd like to start today's post by spotlighting the newest issue of Pulze, volume 3, which has been a long time in the making and is now finally released: https://www.tam-box.com/current-issue! This magazine is full of wonderful puzzles (of all difficulties), interviews and other intriguing puzzle content, created and curated by a very talented team of authors and artists.

Volume 3 is math themed, but if that isn't your thing, fear not! There are plenty of other genres to enjoy as well. I particularly liked the 2nd titan puzzle this volume, which links 8 word genres together through a shared word list, leaving it up to the solver to decide which word belongs to which grid 👀.

If you are interested, consider getting a copy of your own! There's also a free sample you can download first, to get a feel for what to expect.

For today's GAPP we revisit Nibunnogo! This genre was also recently implemented in the pzprxs fork.

Rules: Shade some cells so that there exists no orthogonally connected area of more than five cells which is entirely shaded or unshaded. A clue represents how many of the (up to) four cells it touches are shaded.

Previous feature:
Oct/22 by Freddie: Archive: Sunday, 23 October 2022

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 a Resolute Redthroat 🐦!

Example (pzprxs, by Freddie): https://tinyurl.com/wers38nd
Main puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mwdjd2ed