Monday, 14 April 2025

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Flohzirkus (Flea Circus), a newly invented genre that will be appearing on the Logic Masters 2025 qualifier. The fleas may not be doomed to exhaustion in an ant mill, but being at the mercy of puzzlers who toss them onto square grids is not much better a fate.

Meanwhile, over in the GAPP aquarium the cuttlefish are learning to produce puzzles on their backs. It's slow going, but a promising few can now camouflage among a 3x3 Masyu after about a month of attempts. Number clues still need work.

Rules: Shade some 1x2 dominoes of cells such that no two shaded dominoes are orthogonally adjacent. A number clue, if unshaded, indicates the number of diagonally adjacent cells are shaded. A shaded number clue conveys no information (may or may not be true).

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Siphonaptera Mississippi Kite 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2cfmvzsy
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2xsuydk3