Wednesday, 3 December 2025

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In my search for more variants to write for GAPP, I noticed we have never featured the Even Rows and Columns constraint, which used to be featured on GM Puzzles quite often across many different genres. I'm not the biggest fan of this variation, but figured I'd give it a shot anyway. I chose a genre that I have never seen it applied to.

Today's GAPP is a Chocolate Banana (Even Rows and Columns)!

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. Each row and column must contain an even number of shaded cells.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 6:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Balanced Bellbird 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/jwrsxxsw
Example (pzprxs, no answer check): https://tinyurl.com/43m4vhs8
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/mr3f5hcz
Main (pzprxs, no answer check): https://tinyurl.com/5et9sjnf