Monday, 17 August 2026

Freddie Hand

Congrats to @Cow @Vornicus @atroposhears @Shogia @Calesch @Mikez @Calump @HunterJE (he/they) for guessing that today's puzzle would be a Nuraf! It goes into uncharted linguistic territory as a portmanteau of Japanese and Turkish. Perhaps the only word of its kind.

I appreciated the creative guess of No Four in a Row, but unfortunately, it's not correct. I hope we can extend the otter guessing streak far beyond four in a row! (Although it had reached 6 already...)

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. Every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly two circles and has an area that lies between the two numbers in the circles, exclusive.

Do check out the previous Nuraf in GAPP, courtesy of bakpao: Archive: Friday, 6 June 2025

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 Monotonous Chat 🐦

Example (Penpa+) by bakpao: https://tinyurl.com/2belpbef
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/4p5593bw