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Whit McMahanStatue Creek
Keeping in line with this week’s theme on the GMPuzzles blog, here’s another pentomino-based puzzle. Compared to today’s State Park variant, this is probably the easier of the two.
As you may guess, it’s a hybrid of Statue Park and Creek.
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Rules:
- Shade some cells (60, to be exact) to form the 12 given pentominoes, rotations and reflections allowed.
- No two pentominoes may share an edge, but touching by corners is allowed.
- The unshaded cells must form a single, connected region.
- A clue tells how many of the four cells around it are shaded.
Back to back well crafted expert puzzles. Thanks so much.
Agreed, great puzzle! I’ve never solved any Creeks before, so I was somewhat baffled in the beginning, but once I got it going it was a very satisfying solve. Thanks 🙂
I’m glad you both liked it! It’s one of my favourites, too.
Were the rules unclear, or were you baffled just because of the unfamiliarity?
Oh, the unfamiliarity only, of course. And possibly because I’m not that quick of a solver 🙂 The rules were perfectly clear.