Thursday, 7 August 2025

Freddie Hand

Congratulations to @Rook for getting the second 🦦 bonus otter 🦦 in a row! The first otter is very happy to have a friend. Will the streak continue? Come back tomorrow to find out...

Today's puzzle is a revisit of Sashigane, one of the earliest puzzles I made for GAPP (and technically my first post in the daily-pencil-puzzles channel).

Rules: Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Each region must be an L shape with a width of one cell. Arrows must lie at one end of an L and point toward the bend. Circles must lie at the bend of an L, and if one contains a number, the L it’s inside must contain the indicated amount of cells.

Sashigane has appeared quite a few times in GAPP. The most recent is a Sashigane (Tatami) by bakpao Archive: Wednesday, 2 April 2025 with links to some others.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Nostalgic Noronha Elaenia 🐦

Example (pzprxs) from puzzlink rules page: https://tinyurl.com/mryyvp6s
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/349cd8kd