Friday, 18 April 2025

Menderbug

Puzzle Ramayan is not the only contest happening this weekend. There's also round 4 of the Puzzle Grand Prix, authored by a team from Thailand. They've got a really fun looking water theme going on and I wanted to try out the Pentominous (Flooded) variant for today's GAPP.

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of five orthogonally connected cells so that no two regions of the same shape share an edge, counting rotations and reflections as the same. Clued cells must belong to a region with the pentomino shape associated with that letter.
Variant: A region cannot contain more than two water cells.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Cotton Teal 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2d7wqlj9
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2y5bsqae