{"id":7948,"date":"2018-03-28T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2022-12-26T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:19:27","slug":"winddraughts-by-john-bulten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/winddraughts-by-john-bulten\/","title":{"rendered":"Winddraughts by John Bulten"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Note: puzzles during this bonus week are harder than usual; the four puzzles from Monday-Thursday are all about Thursday or Friday level difficulty.)<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Winddraughts<\/p>\n

PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

or solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools).<\/p>\n

Theme:<\/b> Hidden<\/p>\n

Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 43rd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster John Bulten.<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/b> Shade some white cells black so that each contiguous white region is a valid Four Winds region (that is, the white region consists of at least two white cells, and has at most one \u201ccentral\u201d cell where both vertical and horizontal connections are made; if the white region contains a numeric clue, this clue must be the \u201ccentral\u201d cell and represent the count of all other cells in the region, which must be connected vertically or horizontally to this clue). An arrow clue must belong to a white region and point to its \u201ccentral\u201d cell (assignment of which cell is \u201ccentral\u201d is not necessary in one-cell-wide rectangular regions). The contiguous black regions can contain zero, one, or more clues. All clues inside a black region must indicate that region\u2019s area.<\/p>\n

Also see this example:<\/p>\n

\"Winddraughts<\/p>\n

Answer String:<\/b> Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from left to right for the marked rows. Separate each row’s entry from the next with a comma.<\/p>\n

Time Standards (highlight to view):<\/b> Grandmaster = 4:45, Master = 8:00, Expert = 16:00<\/span><\/p>\n

Solution:<\/b> Answers for this week in this PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Winddraughts is John Bulten\u2019s variation on the puzzles Four Winds and Checkered Fillomino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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