More backlogged GAPP posting to do! These are Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles, so if you're pretty new to the puzzling world and don't know where to start, perhaps try some of these! There are many more puzzles posted every day by my co-setters Jovi, Tyrg, Freddie & Eric over on the CTC community discord server, linked below :D
CTC Fan Server: https://discord.gg/BbN89j5
Puzzle 1 - Surf Shade some cells such that each connected group of shaded cells is of one of the shapes given outside the grid: A line segment represents a one-wide straight path of at least two cells, and a node represents a turn, branch, or endpoint. Rotations and reflections are permitted. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area
Solve on Penpa+
Puzzle 2 - Square Jam Divide the grid into square regions of orthogonally connected cells. A number indicates the side length of the square it’s in. Region borders may not form any four-way intersections
Solve on Pzprxs
Puzzle 3 - Anglers
From each clue outside the grid, draw a path which immediately goes into the nearest cell of the grid and then travels through the centers of some cells until arriving at a fish. All empty cells must be used by a path. Paths may not cross themselves, each other, or fish. A number at the beginning of a path indicates how many cells in the grid the path occupies, including the cell with the fish
Solve on Pzprxs
Puzzle 4 - Disorderly Loop Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells. Clued cells may not be used by the loop. Clues represent the lengths of the next N line segments appearing in the loop, not necessarily in order, starting with a line in the cell adjacent to the clue in the direction of its arrow and moving in the direction of the arrow, where N is the amount of numbers in the clue
Solve on Pzprxs
Puzzle 5 - Yajisan-Kazusan
Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. If a cell with a number in it is unshaded, the number represents how many shaded cells are in a straight line in the indicated direction. If a cell with a number in it is shaded, the number is meaningless
Solve on Puzz.Link
