Saturday, 22 March 2025

Lavaloid

Today's ✨ Supersized Saturday ✨ is a Spiral Galaxy (or Tentaisho)! It's one of the genres featured in the third round of Puzzle GP, which started yesterday. As always, we give out otters 🦦 for anyone who participates in the contest.

This genre has been featured three times before:
- by bakpao (Hexagonal): Archive: Sunday, 8 December 2024
- by Tyrgannus: Archive: Tuesday, 6 December 2022
- by Freddie: Archive: Thursday, 26 May 2022

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must contain exactly one circle and have 180° rotational symmetry around it.

Interface Note: You may find it helpful to draw auxiliary lines between cells to indicate that they are part of the same region, as depicted in the example solution. (These are not necessary for answer check).

Finish the puzzle in 6:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 13:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Point-symmetric Pipit 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by Freddie: https://tinyurl.com/3pr8y55h
Puzzle (puzz.link, Portrait): https://tinyurl.com/v35bbns7
Puzzle (puzz.link, Landscape): https://tinyurl.com/vhn3b5md