Saturday, 18 April 2026

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Today's puzzle is a few months old, written back when I was playing through Bombe, a programming game about Minesweeper. If you play the game, you'll see why. I believe this is also the first puzzle on GAPP with an 11x10 grid size!

Today's puzzle is a Minesweeper (Or)! I would recommend solving the example to get a handle on the logic, but the primary tricky thing that appears in both puzzles will also be given as a GAPP 101 later.

Rules: Place mines in some cells. Clues cannot contain mines, and one of the numbers in each clue indicates how many mines appear in the eight cells surrounding the clue.

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 3:00 or less!
To net a Quick Crab 🦀, solve today's puzzle in 6:45 or less!
All other solvers are welcome to their very own Kaboom Kagu 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/24de8h5m
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26j5gkyg

GAPP 101: Nearby clues often minmax each other, resulting in scenarios where there must be some number of mines in the cells seen by two clues, and the remaining cells seen by each clue either all contain mines or all don't. This logic appears in the example puzzle, so solve that if you're still unsure!