GAPP roundup time! Which of course stands for Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles, our daily series in the CTC Community discord, with puzzles made by myself, Jovi, Mender, Freddie & Walker. These are designed to be appropriate for beginners and/or outsiders to the puzzling community (but often not too easy either), so if you like these and would be interested in trying more, consider joining the discord for a puzzle every day!
CTC community: https://discord.gg/BbN89j5
This collection features an old one I nearly forgot to archive (oops!) and also is entirely shading genres, which will make sense for those following the story I've been writing in the intros on the server ^^
Puzzle 1 - SUPERSIZED Tapa Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue
Solve on Penpa+
Puzzle 2 - Context Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. An unshaded clue indicates the number of orthogonally adjacent shaded cells. A shaded clue indicates the number of diagonally adjacent shaded cells
Solve on Puzz.Link
Puzzle 3 - Fortress Shade some cells to form a non-intersecting loop which does not touch itself, not even diagonally. Each row and column must contain exactly one cell which has a circle and is shaded
Solve on Penpa+
Puzzle 4 - Mochikoro 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 Solve on Puzz.Link
Puzzle 5 - SUPERSIZED Heyawake Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Numbered regions must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. A line of consecutive unshaded cells may not cross more than one bold border
Solve on Puzz.Link
