Easy as LITS by Murat Can Tonta
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Theme: Words
Author/Opus: This is the 232nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.
Rules: Standard LITS rules. Also, the letters outside the grid indicate the first tetromino encountered in the corresponding direction. Or see this:
Difficulty: 3.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 5:15, Master = 7:15, Expert = 14:30
Solution: PDF and solving video.
Note: Follow this link for more variations of LITS and this link for classic LITS. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest LITS to get started on. More LITS puzzles can be found in LOTS O’ LITS by Grant Fikes and Prasanna Seshadri, in The Art of Puzzles 2, and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.
This was much fun. Tried this puzzle 2 times and found different break-ins.
Lovely theme.
The rotationally-symmetric construction, disambiguated through the words on the outside — pretty amazing!
This was fun. 🙂