Friday, 28 February 2025

Freddie Hand

The UKPA Sudoku and Puzzle Open tournaments are taking place in London this weekend. This Statue Park (Half and Half) is a variant that will be appearing in the context of a half-and-half-themed round. I'm looking forward to my practice paying off in the 50% wordsearch.

Rules: Place each shape from the bank given outside the grid into the grid so that no two shapes share an edge and all unused cells form one orthogonally connected area. Rotating and reflecting shapes is allowed. Cells with black circles must be used by a shape, and cells with white circles must not be used by a shape. Within a cage, exactly half of the cells must be used by shapes.

For the example, the shape bank is the tetromino set; for the main puzzle, the shape bank is the double tetromino set.

There is no shortage of Statue Park puzzles in GAPP in case you need a refresher, or want to solve some more.
Walker: Archive: Monday, 20 January 2025
jovi: Discord message
jovi: Archive: Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Eric Fox: Archive: Friday, 10 March 2023
Eric Fox: Archive: Saturday, 22 April 2023
Freddie: Archive: Thursday, 18 April 2024
Freddie: Archive: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Lavaloid: Archive: Sunday, 22 December 2024

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 , solve in 2:00 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 , solve in 4:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Effigy Dieffenbach's Rail 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26s5wv2k
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/27kvql2h