Friday, October 6, 2017

Puzzle 384: Joker

This is a reject from the Puzzle Innovations Contest. This and other rejects were new variations around known puzzle styles, and they were not looking for such submissions.

Rules: Divide the grid along the gridlines into some regions, and fill each of the empty cells with a number, or a joker. When two cells containing the same number touch along an edge, they may not belong to different regions. Given numbers represent the area of the region they belong to. A region may contain none, or one or more of the given numbers, and may only contain either one, or no joker. In addition to the given jokers, you may insert more jokers. If a region contains a joker, its size increases by one, and it has to contain at least one number, but the numbers written inside the region do not get incremented. So, an m-omino remains an m-omino, with area m+1.


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