Thursday, 5 March 2026

Freddie Hand

Hello! Here is a Retsurin. I'm a bit surprised that someone hasn't made one for GAPP already. Another one ticked off the bucket list...

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all the remaining empty cells. Clues cannot be shaded. If a clue has a number, it indicates either the number of shaded cells in the same row as the clue, or the number of shaded cells in the same column as the clue, 🚨 but it cannot indicate both 🚨 .

In other words, if a clue has the number N, it cannot be the case that the row has N shaded cells and the column also has N shaded cells.

Retsurin hasn't appeared on GAPP before, but since it's basically a Yajilin variant, here's the latest classic Yajilin in GAPP, courtesy of bakpao: Archive: Friday, 2 May 2025

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 Omnidirectional Omani Owl 🐦

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/y4v8pzjk
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/35mt78pz