Saturday, 26 April 2025

Lavaloid

Today's GAPP is a Taj Mahal, and curiously, the third square-themed ruleset I've featured this month. You could probably make a joke about three square meals out of this.

Previous Taj Mahal by Philip: Archive: Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Rules: Draw straight lines connecting pairs of grid points to form squares (allowing non-orthogonal lines). Squares may only touch at the corners, and all squares must form one connected network. Circles mark the centers of all squares drawn in the grid. A number in a circle represents how many other squares its square shares a corner with.

Note: In order to draw lines in the software, click on a circle and drag to a grid point - the software will draw the entire square at once. (To change a square after it is drawn, just click the circle and drag again.)

Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 8:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Three Square Teals 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by Philip: https://tinyurl.com/4yss25n8
Puzzle (puzz.link, horizontal): https://tinyurl.com/43nhnf7w
Puzzle (puzz.link, vertical): https://tinyurl.com/3wrz9swb