Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Puzzlerium tour: A thriller, a glaring divide, and a Permaculture puzzle

As the US election develops into a thriller and exposes the long-running deep divide, I couldn't think of a puzzle better than Permaculture for the occasion, which combines two puzzles into a single grid, dividing the grid in two. If the head of a state could influence rising Covid numbers, like in India (with all the superstitious histrionics) and in the USA, these leaders are only deserving of the IG award that 7 of them won this year. 



Rules: 
General Permaculture rules: Divide the grid into two parts, along the provided dotted lines only, so that each part contains one of the given puzzle types. Within each part all cells must be connected, and each cell must belong to exactly one part. It is possible that one part completely surrounds the other. Aside from this division, the parts are completely independent and do not interact with each other.

Solve one part as a "Single entry" puzzle (Draw a single loop that passes horizontally or vertically through the cell borders and visits all of the cells exactly once. Each outlined region must be visited exactly once), and the other part as a "Pentominous fragments" puzzle (Club two or more outlined regions to form some Pentomino shapes. The shapes may be used more than once, with rotations and reflections allowed. Identical shapes may not touch each other through the edges. Rotations and reflections are considered the same shape).

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