Friday, 13 June 2025

Freddie Hand

Battleships will be appearing in the upcoming GP round, courtesy of Switzerland. Note the double tetromino fleet.

Rules: Place the given fleet of ships into the grid so that no two ships are touching, not even diagonally. Rotating and reflecting ships is permitted. A clue outside the grid indicates the number of cells in the corresponding row or column that are occupied by ships. Cells with waves cannot be occupied by a ship. A given ship segment must be used as the part of a ship that its shape represents.

Note: The final sentence here is important - in particular the half sausage shape must be at the "end" of a ship.

Note²: Reflections of ships are allowed. (They are also allowed in the standard Battleships fleet, but since that consists of rectangles it would be redundant)

Here's the last two appearances of Battleships in GAPP:
Walker - Archive: Wednesday, 30 April 2025 (Loop)
bakpao - Archive: Friday, 21 February 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 Fleeting Flesh-footed Shearwater 🐦

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/nhfxmk28
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mphh8aux