Thursday, 27 February 2025

Menderbug

I've been a little bit ill the last couple of days, so I'm returning once again to my comfort food. Have a good old Choco Banana. I'm hearing it goes well with pancakes.
Speaking of which, in case you don't get notified about guest series, Tyrgannus has started a series on Heyawake that is going to be a little above GAPP level but promises to be very educational. You can follow along at #(unknown channel).

As for today's puzzle, I tried coming up with an archetype we haven't covered yet. You shouldn't have to count the big clues, except to make sure their areas are vaguely big enough.

Previous Choco Bananas on GAPP:
- Archive: Sunday, 9 January 2022 by Freddie
- Archive: Saturday, 10 September 2022 (supersized) by Shye
- Archive: Saturday, 8 July 2023 (supersized) by Jovi
- Archive: Monday, 4 September 2023 by Freddie
- Archive: Tuesday, 3 October 2023 by me
- Archive: Friday, 1 March 2024 by me
- Archive: Friday, 20 September 2024 by me

Rules: Shade some cells so that all areas of orthogonally connected shaded cells are rectangular and all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells are not rectangular. A clue represents the size of its group of shaded/unshaded cells.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Nomnom Noddy 🐦!

Example (pzprxs) by Shye: https://tinyurl.com/mw6t7vv7
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mryt38ch