Sunday, 21 June 2026

bakpao

Apologies for the late post. I very recently moved house and am working my way down a seemingly endless to-do list. Today mostly consisted of drilling holes in concrete walls and ceilings and hanging curtains and lamps. Fortunately I managed to avoid electrocuting myself and drilling through pipes. Anyway, today's GAPP, an Isowatari, was written hastily during a bit of downtime on the subway ride to the hardware store. Hopefully you still enjoy it!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely unshaded. Black circles must be shaded and white circles must be unshaded. All orthogonally connected groups of shaded cells must be the size indicated above the grid.

Previous standard Isowatari:
N=2, by Menderbug Archive: Monday, 25 March 2024
N=3, by Walker Archive: Friday, 10 November 2023
N=4, by Freddie Archive: Friday, 18 July 2025
N=5 (supersized), by Menderbug Archive: Saturday, 6 July 2024

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 1:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 3:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Handy House Sparrow 🐦!

Example (N=5, pzprxs, by Menderbug): https://tinyurl.com/bddwj5dp
Main (N=5, pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/7wyy5jdz