Wednesday, 16 July 2025

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While we were doing Instructionless week, we completely forgot to mention that Puzzle GP round 7, authored by the Czech Republic, is also ongoing currently! If you haven't done it yet, today is the last day you can still take the contest, it closes in about 16 hours - give it a shot here! Feel free to claim a bonus participation otter too!

Today's GAPP is a Chocolate Banana (Split), one of the genres featuring in the GP round! 🍫🍌🍨

Rules: Shade some cells so that all areas of orthogonally connected shaded cells are rectangular and all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells are not rectangular. A clue represents the size of its group of shaded/unshaded cells. Diamonds must touch exactly two shaded cells and two unshaded cells.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 4:30 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Banded Spoonbill 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yst4h4hd
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yvqlbu7z