From the Foxger’s Den #10: Fillomino
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between a composite mode for line/edge drawing and a number entry mode.)
Theme: Parquet
Rules: Standard Fillomino rules.
Answer String: For each cell in the marked rows/columns, enter the area of the polyomino it belongs to. Start with the 5th column, followed by a comma, followed by the 7th column.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:30, Master = 2:00, Expert = 4:00
Solution: PDF
Note: Follow this link for other classic Fillomino and this link for more variations on Fillomino puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Fillomino puzzles to get started on.
Grant: I always enjoy your fillominos, and this one had a nice logical flow to it. There are some interesting solving themes that aren’t evident until you get going.
I have been doing a tooooon of Fillominos on janko.at recently so this was a walk in the park. Thanks for the puzzle.
It was intended as an Easy Thursday considering what is coming up; Grant’s Fillominoes are usually very smooth and this is no exception.
Considering what is coming up? You think you can frighten us, puzzle grandmaster? You think we’ll tremble in fear of the wrath you’re bringing? Huh?
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Someone hold me…
Well, given the pattern in the schedule so far, I am predicting a Tapa tomorrow and a super-hard Sudoku to top off the week. Judging from the warning the Dr. gave us above, we’re in for some hurting…
Good sleuthing Giovanni!
So, given that it looks like we have a killer (literally or figuratively) sudoku on tap for tomorrow, does anyone have suggestions for improving your sudoku skills beyond “solve a lot of sudoku”? If that’s what it comes down to, so be it, but my recent performances in some sudokus (sudoki?) has left quite a lot to be desired.
Unfortunately for me, I think some of it may just be failing to be sufficiently observant; when I put one of them that took longer than it should into a stepping solver, there wasn’t a single point where I should have had trouble; just missed the next easily solved cell.
Not hard, but interesting nonetheless, and the ending ties a neat little bow on it.
3’45”
Flow was not just visible while solving but the numbers were literally speaking out of the puzzle of where the connectivity would be.For the first time i have achieved an expert time in a puzzle.Thnks to fox.Had fun!
It was a nice breeze through the puzzle. Fillominos are probably my favourite puzzle type, so I’m probably gonna go and solve some more.
For people with speedy fillomino times, do you draw the borders or not?
I draw all borders and hardly input numbers. Numbers are notes to me; borders are the solution to me. I’ll also draw lines connecting cells that belong to the same polyomino. I really treat it as a polyomino cut type. Treating it this way dramatically increased my solving ability. First time I saw a fillomino I completely didn’t get it as I was treating it as a number input type.
01:09.
Grant’s classic. Puzzle goes smoothly.
@Scott: I tend to draw them on paper, but because I solved this one in Excel, I didn’t. Usually drawing borders is faster than writing digits, although I sometimes do both (just to make it “organized”) when I’m stuck and am thinking.