Sunday, 4 January 2026

Freddie Hand

This puzzle was chosen by picking a random shading genre and a random grid shape. It's a Shimaguni on a Rhombitrihexagonal grid, which works surprisingly ok for a totally random pairing. Although it could have been my fifth roll and none of you would ever know...

Rules: Shade a single group of edge-connected cells in each region. Shaded groups may not share a bold border. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. Each region must contain at least one shaded cell, and no two adjacent regions may contain the same number of shaded cells.

There are have been quite a few Shimaguni in GAPP. Here's three:

Archive: Friday, 8 July 2022 by jovi
Archive: Saturday, 9 March 2024 by Lavaloid (supersized)
Archive: Sunday, 16 April 2023 by Tyrg (hexagonal)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Random Rand's Warbler 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2t6us6md
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/mewsajkb