Statue Park (Twilight) by Prasanna Seshadri
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Antisymmetry
Author/Opus: This is the 217th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. Also, the numbers in the black circles show the number of spaces not occupied by pentominoes in orthogonally and diagonally adjacent cells. The numbers in the white circles show the number of spaces occupied by pentominoes in orthogonally and diagonally adjacent cells.
Difficulty: 4.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 11:00, Master = 16:00, Expert = 32:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other classic Statue Park and this link for Statue Park variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Statue Parks to get started on. More Statue Park puzzles can be found in the ebook Statue Park by Murat Can Tonta.
Very impressive design and fun puzzle. 🙂 Must’ve hit the expert time almost exactly, but I needed a good minute or two to realise that it wasn’t accepting my solution because I had shaded some cells below the grid to tick off the pentominoes. 😀
I really enjoyed the puzzle 🙂
I have one suggestion. This ruleset would be simpler and easier to think about if all of the numbers had the same meaning. As far as I can tell, all of the values can be converted to the other color’s system with one rule without changing the result of the puzzle. Having to “do the math” isn’t really a benefit to the puzzle.
+1
I very much agree with everything Micheal said