Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Rook

Today's GAPP is a Cocktail Lamp! One of my comfort genres!
Hopefully this genre is more comfortable to solve than my other comfort genres: Guide Arrow and Nurimisaki . . .
I've included a GAPP 101 at the end of this post if you get stuck.

Rules: Shade some cells such that all shaded cells within a region form a single orthogonally connected group. Shaded groups may not be orthogonally adjacent, but must all form a single diagonally connected network. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Previous Features:
- bakpao Archive: Monday, 12 May 2025
- Menderbug Archive: Monday, 4 November 2024

Solve in 1:30 or less to earn yourself one Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Solve in 3:00 or less to earn yourself one Quick Crab 🦀!
Solve in any amount of time to earn one Chilling Chowchilla 🐦!

Example ( pzprxs ) by Tyrg: https://tinyurl.com/mr3wdcj7
Main ( pzprxs ): https://tinyurl.com/yedfd94s

GAPP 101: Look for commonalities! If all the possible placements for a polyomino in a region overlap a cell, then that cell must be shaded! Conversely, if a certain cell being unshaded would remove all possibilities for placing a polyomino in that region, then that cell must be shaded!