Friday, 9 May 2025

Freddie Hand

Today's genre is appearing on the Swiss WPC Qualifier, which is happening over this weekend, hosted on LMD, and is live as of roughly 4 hours ago. Nurimisaki (Domino) is one of the variants that will be appearing (or as I like to call it, Norinorimisaki). You're very welcome to claim a bonus otter 🦦 if you do try the contest! (You will need to be logged in to LMD to see the details)

Rules: Shade some 1x2 dominoes of cells so that the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Dominoes cannot be orthogonally adjacent (but may be diagonally adjacent). No 2x2 region may be entirely unshaded.

Circles mark every instance of a cell which is unshaded and orthogonally adjacent to exactly one other unshaded cell (i.e. every circle is a 'dead end', and there are no other dead ends). If a circle contains a number, it indicates how many cells are in the straight line of unshaded cells coming out of the cell with the circle, including itself.

Here's the last classic Nurimisaki in GAPP, courtesy of Lavaloid: Archive: Thursday, 27 March 2025

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Toblerone Tomtit 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/275qfqlr
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2cjjrnfc