Monday, 1 September 2025

Freddie Hand

Unfortunately none of you predicted that today's puzzle would be a City Space. Not that there was any way to guess, since it doesn't follow the pattern (though if you're familiar with what puzzles I tend to pick, you'll know I'm a big fan of jumping on the latest pzprxs releases). I hope you enjoy the little bit of extra disorder in your life now.

I will be busy after September 4th for certain reasons so this will be the last post from me in a while. (I'm joking!)

Rules: Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a one-wide rectangle of at least two cells. All unshaded cells must form one orthogonally connected area, which contains no complete loops of cells (this includes 2x2s). Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line vertically or horizontally, including itself.

Here's the first City Space in GAPP, courtesy of shye: Archive: Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Note: The example might be a little trickier than usual.

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 Metropolitan Metallic Starling 🐦

Example (pzprxs) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/45hmaze
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/3tfvde84