Friday, 21 February 2025

bakpao

Here's another genre from Puzzle Ramayan round 2, which has officially started! Two bonus otters up for grabs this weekend, one for participation in PR R2 and another for Puzzle GP R2, starting in slightly less than two hours from now. Claim both and they might just start holding hands! 🦦🦦

More info on PR here and on GP here.

Today's puzzle is a Battleships!

Rules: Place the given fleet of ships into the grid so that no two ships are touching, not even diagonally. Rotating ships is permitted. A clue outside the grid indicates the number of cells in the corresponding row or column that are occupied by ships. Cells with waves cannot be occupied by a ship. A given ship segment must be used as the part of a ship that its shape represents.

Note carefully the last part of the rules! As seen in the example, a square must be in the middle of a ship, and a "half sausage" must be at the end of a ship, with the ship extending outwards in the expected direction. In other words, it must match the corresponding shape in the ship given in the fleet below.

Previous Battleships:
Jul/23 (supersized) by Freddie: Archive: Saturday, 1 July 2023
May/22 by Tyrg: Archive: Tuesday, 10 May 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 Nautical Nectarinia 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, by Freddie): https://tinyurl.com/26ejnup6
Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3rz9vs53