Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Walker

We’re receiving a covert communication… 🕵️ 🗺️ "Greetings, GAPP secret agents! I’ve forwarded to you an Instructionless map detailing the location of your next mission. This map was sent to me alongside an important message containing the rules used to decode the map. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the message would self-destruct after reading, and I’ve already forgotten what it said. Well, I’m sure you’ll be fine without it!" Ah. Well, if you need more info about what’s going on, you can check Mender’s post from two days ago! ⏫

Hint: ⚠️ The given small digits are sums, and are similar to another number placement genre with shaded cells. ⚠️

Full Rules: ⚠️ ⚠️ Place a number from 1 to N-2 into some cells so that each row and column contains every number from that range with no repeats, where N is the side length of the grid, and shade the remaining two cells of each row and column. There are exactly two shaded cells on each line, and a clue on a line indicates the sum of the digits which appear between the two shaded cells along the line. ⚠️ ⚠️

Solve without revealing either spoiler for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete using only the hint for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Secretive Saffron Siskin! 🐦

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2xhxj2n2
Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/ysr5reya
Combined (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/ywjyo4u2 (fill in numbers in the left example grid and main grid for answer check)