Sunday, 8 February 2026

Freddie Hand

I generated a random genre to strange-shape. I didn't limit myself to shading genres this time, but as luck would have it the generator landed on Chocona. Pairing it with a Tetrakis Square grid was a perfect opportunity to steal take inspiration from bakpao's idea last week.

Rules: Shade some cells so that each orthogonally connected area of shaded cells is in the shape of a rectangle. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells.

Here are the previous appearances of Chocona in GAPP:
Previous appearances of Chocona:
- Lavaloid: Archive: Saturday, 31 January 2026 (supersized)
- Shye: Archive: Monday, 14 February 2022
- Tyrgannus: Archive: Wednesday, 3 August 2022
- Menderbug: Archive: Monday, 11 March 2024

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