Sunday, 21 September 2025

Freddie Hand

Today we have a Hexa Hungary (Tetromino), again a genre that will be in the WPC, but in much bigger form. The sudoku folk will mostly be in Hungary by now for the WSC. I'll be heading over in a few days with the sole aim of beating bakpao at a wordsearch.

Might as well keep a 🚨 NEGATIVE CONSTRAINT🚨 alert (for the arrow clues).

Rules: Shade some cells in the grid so that there are exactly four connected shaded cells in every region. If two adjacent cells belong to different regions, they cannot both be shaded, i.e. shaded cells cannot be adjacent across a border.
- Number clues indicate the number of the adjacent cells (out of up to six) that are shaded.
- Arrow clues indicate all directions (out of up to six) where shaded cells appear closest to the clue (so if a direction does not have an arrow, the shaded cell in that direction is not the closest to the clue). The arrows’ range of visibility is not blocked by clue cells, region or puzzle boundaries.
- Clues cannot be shaded.

Do check out Walker's Pentopia (Hex) which is similar to this: Archive: Sunday, 18 August 2024

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Impending Imperial Snipe 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/54c5uz3x
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/y4h4nw3a