Tuesday, 21 July 2026

bakpao

The IB for the USA's GP round was released earlier today! I'm looking forward to it - David and @Walker are excellent authors and the genre selection looks really fun. I'm sure some of the genres will appear in GAPP later this week as well. The round starts on Friday and you can take the test until Wednesday next week. Check out the IB here!

Today's GAPP is a Mochikoro!

Rules: Shade some cells so that all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells are rectangular. The unshaded rectangles must all be connected diagonally. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of cells in the unshaded area they belong to. An unshaded area of cells cannot contain more than one clue. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Try previous appearances here:
Mar/24 by Walker: Archive: Friday, 15 March 2024
Jul/23 by shye: Archive: Monday, 24 July 2023
Mar/23 by Freddie: Archive: Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Apr/22 by Freddie (supersized): Archive: Saturday, 16 April 2022
Jan/22 by shye: Archive: Friday, 21 January 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 2:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 4:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Sleepy Shikra 🐦!

Example (pzprxs, by Sam Cappleman-Lynes): https://tinyurl.com/5764a9wx
Main (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/hm93j5mn