Saturday, 15 March 2025

Freddie Hand

The third round of the LMI PR (Number Placement and Made In India) has begun - see here - bonus otters 🦦🦦 available for taking part as usual! You may be pleased to hear I've elected against supersized number placement - Place by Product will be appearing in the MII section.

@Um_nik is solving some GAPP puzzles on his YouTube channel starting from Feb 2022 (MtG 4), with full explanations (playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_2SIhFoM1-srOf6D1YqxSnVsepSBzsnF). I've enjoyed watching them, and they might be helpful for anyone struggling to get started.

Finally, Puzzle Boss Rush 4 is ongoing - no otters, massive(ly difficult) puzzles, attempt at your own peril.

Let's get cracking!

Rules: Place each shape from the bank given outside the grid into the grid so that no two shapes are touching, not even diagonally. Rotating and reflecting shapes is allowed. A clue outside the grid indicates the product of the lengths of the groups of consecutive unshaded cells in the corresponding row or column.

Here's a useful GAPP 101: Since the shape bank is entirely formed of dominoes, no two diagonally adjacent cells can both be shaded - this means that when you shade a cell, you can unshade its (up to) 4 diagonal neighbours.

Solving Note: (Slight spoiler) You can ignore the precise number of dominoes given below the grid - as long as you know that every shape is a domino, that's enough for a unique solution.

Here's the previous one in GAPP, by Walker: Archive: Thursday, 27 July 2023

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve in 4:15 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀, solve in 8:30 or less!
And for all, a Mult Mulga Parrot 🐦

Example by Walker (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2awno2ey
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2y8jffzg