Build Your Own Nuri-Maze #1: Pentominoes
(Published on 17. January 2024, 14:15 by Myxo)
The start of a small series exploring different hybrids of Nuri-Maze and region building. These will vary in difficulty, but mostly lean to the harder side. Enjoy!
Rules:
Nuri-Maze: Shade some cells to form a maze. Clues cannot be shaded. There can not be a 2x2 square of all shaded or all unshaded cells. For each pair of unshaded cells, there is exactly one path of edge-adjacent unshaded cells connecting them, i.e. all unshaded cells form an orthogonally contiguous area without any loops. There is exactly one path between S and G that doesn't require backtracking. Circles must be part of this path, while triangles must not.
Pentominoes: Divide up all shaded cells into pentominoes, i.e. regions of exactly five cells. Pentominoes may touch but not overlap each other. No pentomino shape is used more than once, counting rotations and reflections as the same.
Solution code: for the last 5 rows from top to bottom, the number of contiguous segments of unshaded cells
Comments
on 2. October 2024, 23:34 by petecavcc
Amazing puzzle, loving this nuri-maze problems
on 22. February 2024, 19:17 by QuiltyAsCharged
Cool puzzle. That's a very clever design with the pentominoes.
I find these Nuri-Maze puzzles quite challenging. Maybe I'm better at reasoning with numbers than shapes, or maybe I'm just more experienced with sudoku variants.
on 22. February 2024, 03:00 by wisty
Very entertaining and interesting and cool, thank you :)
on 1. February 2024, 01:02 by dumediat
A nice step up from the intro, lots of cool deductions in this one. Thanks! :D
on 20. January 2024, 23:55 by Christounet
Very nice beginning for the serie ! Thanks :)
on 20. January 2024, 10:46 by Piatato
Great fun!
on 19. January 2024, 00:03 by Jesper
That was fun, looking forward to what is still to come :)
on 17. January 2024, 18:32 by zzw
Super cool hybrid, thanks! Lots of fun, and glad this is just #1!
on 17. January 2024, 14:23 by MicroStudy
let him cook
on 17. January 2024, 14:16 by Myxo
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Nuri-Maze, here is an introduction puzzle I made: id=000GJC
