This month for GAPP (Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzles) we've had our second genre guessing game, last year it was Alphabetical August, but this year aired a different theme for you to find! It isn't over quite yet, so if you'd like to join the CTC Community discord and make some guesses, the link is below! there you'll find more puzzles made by my co-authors, Jovi, Mender, Freddie & Walker <3
CTC community: https://discord.gg/BbN89j5 While you're there, you'll notice my intro write-ups are a bit convoluted, that's because I've been writing a story in them with each of my posts! The start of it is on the Guide Arrow posted on the 19th of June if you'd like to catch up. Will I escape the fortress with the Hydra's venom? Who is this mysterious Den leader? Stay tuned to find out! Puzzle 1 - Sea Serpent Shade some cells to form a non-intersecting path which does not touch itself orthogonally. Circles mark the ends of the path. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of shaded cells that appear in the indicated directions Solve on Penpa+
Puzzle 2 - Nurikabe 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 every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area Solve on Puzz.Link
Puzzle 3 - Patrol Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells which passes through every white circle and no black circles. No 2x2 area of the grid may be entirely used or unused by the loop Solve on Penpa+
Puzzle 4 - Warp Place a number from the range given into each portal such that every number appears twice. From each clue outside the grid a path is imagined, entering in the given direction and traveling in a straight line, teleporting to a portal’s numeric counterpart if touched, and making a 90 degree turn off of any mirrors it may encounter. A clue outside the grid indicates the sum of the values the path enters (not counting again when exiting) and if a value is used multiple times by a path, its value is counted each time Solve on Penpa+
Puzzle 5 - Hydra Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no loops (including 2x2s), that does not touch itself diagonally. Clued cells must be shaded, and are all of the shaded cells which are orthogonally adjacent to only one other. The shortest path along shaded cells from the “1” clue to another clue must occupy a number of cells equal to the value of that other clue, counting the clued cells themselves Solve on Penpa+
