Tuesday, 11 February 2025

bakpao

According to our internal spreadsheet, I've only ever done one number placement puzzle for GAPP. That being the most number placement genre of all the number placement genres, Hebi-Ichigo. About time to pad my stats a bit with today's The Largest Number. I came across this genre while looking at the IB from the 2017 WPC. Another genre that caught my eye was Shards, though it remains to be seen whether I can turn that into a GAPP puzzle...

Rules: Place a number into each cell so that each region contains the numbers from 1 to N with no repeats, where N is the number of cells in the region. Numbers of the same value may not touch one another orthogonally. Cells from different regions sharing an edge cannot both contain the largest number of their corresponding regions.

Interface note 💻: You can use shading to mark which cells contain the highest number within a region and which cells cannot. Shading is not required for answer check.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 6:30 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Ample Aepyornis 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ykagrzx
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2dzqvlhu