Monday, 30 March 2026

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Hasu No Mura, to celebrate its recent release on pzprxs! It's also technically the first Hasu No Mura in GAPP that can be inputted in pzprxs.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded and indicate the sum of the areas of the unshaded regions using the (up to 4) cells diagonally adjacent to the clue. (This may include the region the clue is in, and if a region uses multiple diagonal neighbours, it is only counted once.)

The rules are a bit confusing, so there is attached an image with some example clues.

Do check out the first appearance of this genre in GAPP, courtesy of Menderbug: Archive: Wednesday, 13 September 2023

(I've stolen both the theme and the explainer image from here)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Revisiting Réunion Cuckooshrike 🐦

Example (pzprxs), from pzprxs rules page: https://tinyurl.com/2m5yv95u
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/3dme5fhp