Thursday, 19 February 2026

Rook

I was scrolling through Puzzle Square when I found this fun genre called Domino Bridge, which was inspired by Bramble! This genre seems to have all of my favorite constraints jumbled into one! Let's see how many deranged ways I can try to describe it without explicitly explaining the rules:

- Bramble (shade dominoes) (diagonal clues)
- Aquapelago (shade dominoes) (no loops)
- Ant Mill (opposite) (shaded Context clues)

Hold on... Bramble (Aquapelago clues) (Ant Mill (opposite)) ...
Oh yeah... It's all coming together.

Rules: Shade some dominoes in the grid to connect all given black cells in a single diagonally connected network. Dominoes must not be orthogonally adjacent to other dominoes or given black cells. Number clues indicate how many dominoes are diagonally adjacent to itself. The combination of dominoes and given black cells must form one diagonally connected network that does not contain any loops.

Solve in 2:15 or less to earn yourself one Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Solve in 4:30 or less to earn yourself one Quick Crab 🦀!
Solve in any amount of time to earn one Franklinstein's Gull 🐦!

Example ( penpa+ ): https://tinyurl.com/ycs6hcdd
Main ( penpa+ ): https://tinyurl.com/mr3y7xfr