Saturday, 11 October 2025

Freddie Hand

Did you know that Graffiti is the plural of Graffito? Much like spaghetto and broccolo, this singular form has fallen out of fashion. But today we're bringing back a genre from Neolithic GAPP times, last featured on March 2022. You'll have to wait until I become a bit braver before seeing a supersized Numbered Rooms or Vama.

Rules: Shade some cells and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all the remaining empty cells. Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, in order.

Interface Note: Yajilin mode works well for this genre, but it can be a little unresponsive, particularly on mobile, so you might prefer to switch between Surface and Line modes.

Check out the first Graffiti puzzle in GAPP, courtesy of shye: Archive: Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 12:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Sprayed Spruce Grouse 🐦

Example (Penpa+), by shye: https://tinyurl.com/2p9atw5v
Puzzle (Penpa+, Landscape): https://tinyurl.com/yc3p3vp6
Puzzle (Penpa+, Portrait): https://tinyurl.com/yc4aap2m