{"id":5750,"date":"2016-05-10T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2023-07-27T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:07:09","slug":"pentopia-transparent-by-prasanna-seshadri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/pentopia-transparent-by-prasanna-seshadri\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentopia (Transparent) by Prasanna Seshadri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/160510-Pentopia-Tp.png\" alt=\"Pentopia by Prasanna Seshadri\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/160510-Pentopia-Tp.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/160510PTran>solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools).<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> Clue Symmetry and Logic (originally on 2016 Polish Puzzle Championship)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 119th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Variation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/pentopia-rules-and-info\/\">Pentopia<\/a> rules: Place some of the given pentominoes in the grid so that no pentominoes are in adjacent cells that share an edge or corner. Pentominoes cannot repeat in the grid; rotations and reflections of a pentomino are considered the same shape. The arrow clues indicate all the directions (up, down, left, and right) where the nearest pentominoes are located when looking from that square, ignoring the clue cell itself. (Pentominoes can sit on the clue cells.) <\/p>\n<p>See also this example:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/160510-Pentopia-Tp-Ex.png\" alt=\"Pentopia by Prasanna Seshadri\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Answer String:<\/b> Enter the length in cells of each of the shaded pentomino segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row&#8217;s entry from the next with a comma.<\/p>\n<p><b>Time Standards (highlight to view):<\/b> <span style=\"color:white;background-color:white;\">Grandmaster = 3:15, Master = 4:00, Expert = 8:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/160510-Pentopia-Tp-soln.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Follow this link for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/pentopia\/\">Pentopia<\/a> puzzles and this link for other puzzles involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/tag\/pentomino\/\">Pentominoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDF or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools). Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic (originally on 2016 Polish Puzzle Championship) Author\/Opus: This is the 119th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri. Rules: Variation of Pentopia rules: Place some of the given pentominoes in the grid so that no pentominoes are in adjacent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,3,55],"tags":[10,56,80,160],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pentopia","category-puzzle","category-variation","tag-mondaytuesday","tag-variation-2","tag-pentomino","tag-pentopia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pentopia (Transparent) by Prasanna Seshadri - The Art of Puzzles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri has made the clues in this Pentopia puzzle transparent. 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