Snakes and Statues
(Published on 23. December 2025, 12:20 by logicanimal)
Rules: Statue Park variant
1. Shade some squares to form all 12 pentominoes (may be rotated/reflected).
2. No two pentominoes may share an edge.
3. Black circles must be covered by a pentomino while white circles cannot.
4. Unshaded cells must form one connected component.
5. Shade additional empty cells to connect the 7 snake pentominoes into an even longer snake. A “snake” is an orthogonally connected path of length at least 2. A snake may never touch itself, not even diagonally.
6. Along the long snake, there must be exactly 2 shaded cells between consecutive snake pentominoes. These newly shaded cells may touch the original pentominoes. White circles must remain unshaded.
7. After shading the long snake, the unshaded cells must remain connected.
You can solve the puzzle here.
This is one of 12 disjoint puzzles I made this year with varying styles/difficulties themed around snakes and 2025.
Enjoy!
Solution code: Enter the length of the longest segment of shaded cells (including all pentominoes and snakes) of every row.
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Solved by JustinTucker
Comments
on 20. January 2026, 20:51 by logicanimal
@CHalb. Yes, that's correct. The "new" 2-cell segments are also allowed to touch non-snake pentominoes.
on 19. January 2026, 12:24 by CHalb
What do you mean with "These newly shaded cells may touch the original pentominoes."? Of course these cells touch the original snake pentominoes. May they also touch non-snake pentominoes?
on 7. January 2026, 21:59 by JustinTucker
Very funny! Thanks
