Wednesday, 2 April 2025

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This weekend the qualifiers for the Dutch championships take place! There will be a separate test for sudoku and pencil puzzles, and they take 1 hour each. The puzzles for the pencil puzzle portion are all written by @Frostini and myself. While the official ranking will only be for Dutch nationals, anyone can participate in the tests and there will be a separate unofficial ranking. I'd love to see many of you give the puzzles a try, so do consider taking part! More info can be found here. Good luck to all who participate!

Today's GAPP is a Sashigane (Tatami)!

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must be an L shape with a width of one cell. Arrows must lie at one end of an L and point toward the bend. Circles must lie at the bend of an L, and if one contains a number, the L it is inside must contain the indicated amount of cells. Region borders may not form any four-way intersections.

Previous (vanilla) Sashigane:
Apr/24 by Lavaloid (supersized): Archive: Saturday, 20 April 2024
Oct/23 by shye: Archive: Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Nov/22 by Tyrgannus: Archive: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Nov/21 by Freddie: Archive: Thursday, 25 November 2021

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 5:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Ordinary Oriole 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ywt5nbq
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2atpdsz4