Saturday, 4 April 2026

Freddie Hand

What connects yo-yos, apple pies, and those little plastic sifters you find in kids' sandboxes?

That's right. They all fit in the square hole. Mystery solved.

I can't give you Context. I need to go water my venus flytraps.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. An unshaded clue indicates the number of orthogonally adjacent shaded cells. A shaded clue indicates the number of diagonally adjacent shaded cells.

This puzzle comes with a little GAPP 101 which is useful for getting started: shading a cell orthogonally adjacent to a 0 clue would unshade the clue and break it.

Do check out the last standard-sized Context in GAPP, courtesy of shye: Archive: Friday, 14 July 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 9:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Demystified Diamantina Sabrewing 🐦

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mvnj7c4h
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mr5f9kkx