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Fillin' in Time

(Published on 4. March 2023, 03:59 by Andrewsarchus)



Rules:
  • Standard Fillomino rules apply.
  • Regions of the same size cannot share an edge.
  • In this puzzle, regions of the same size also cannot share a vertex.

  • No region may contain a 2x2 set of cells.
  • Only the two largest regions are allowed to branch. All others are snakes (one-cell regions are very short snakes).

  • Cells where a region branches are indicated by a dotted-line circle. All possible circles are given.

  • Black Dots separate regions with a 2:1 size ratio. The number in the black dot is the size of one of the two regions. For example, if a black dot contains a 4, then one of the regions must be of size 4, while the other region is either size 2 or size 8. Not all possible black dots are given.

  • Cells outside of the grid contain a time.
  • The hour represents the number of region segments seen in the row/column. Non-contiguous segments belonging to the same region are counted separately.
  • The minute represents the number of dead-ends seen in the row/column. One-cell regions count as dead-ends, as do the head and tail of snake shaped regions, and the ends of the branches of the two large regions.

  • Answer check looks at green edges only.


    note: the cell in the center is surrounded by four given edges, making it a 1-region.


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Solution code: Row 8 region sizes of each cell from left to right (no spaces)

Last changed on on 4. March 2023, 22:51

Solved by RJBlarmo, PrimeWeasel, Vebby, Jesper, jkuo7, Jay Dyer, misko
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on 4. March 2023, 22:49 by Andrewsarchus
added clarification regarding the central cell being a region of size 1 rather than a hole in the grid.

Last changed on 4. March 2023, 22:54

on 4. March 2023, 21:50 by Jesper
Very nice! I think the individual steps are not brutally hard (it rather flows quite well), but it is a long solve due to the scale and the large number of clues to consider.

By the way, I initially mistook the middle square for a hole in the grid, but it is actually 4 given borders.

thanks Jesper!, I've added a clarification regarding the central cell.
--Andrewsarchus

on 4. March 2023, 16:42 by PrimeWeasel
Excellent!

on 4. March 2023, 12:41 by RJBlarmo
Very cool ruleset and design, I found it to be quite a challenging puzzle.

Difficulty:3
Rating:N/A
Solved:7 times
Observed:3 times
ID:000D5S

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