Wednesday, 26 February 2025

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Today's GAPP is a Snake (Graffiti)! 🐍

From what I can tell, this variant dates back to 2011 where it first appeared in the Snake Variations Contest on LMI, hosted by Serkan Yurekli, with Riad Khanmagomedov credited for the idea for the variant/for the original Graffiti genre (which we have featured before). All that is to say I'm merely following the original presentation so please don't blame me for the inverted snake shading.

Rules: Shade some cells to leave behind a non-intersecting path of unshaded cells which does not touch itself, not even diagonally. Circles mark the ends of the path. Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, in order. A question mark represents one block of an unknown number of cells.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 5:30 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Vandal Van Dam's Vanga 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2d3cchmd
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2b2ml22w