{"id":9380,"date":"2019-03-13T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2023-07-27T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:06:06","slug":"pentopia-by-bryce-herdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/pentopia-by-bryce-herdt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentopia by Bryce Herdt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190313-Pentopia-BackandForth.png\" alt=\"Pentopia by Bryce Herdt\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190313-Pentopia-BackandForth.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/190313Back>solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools).<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> Back and Forth<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 13th puzzle from guest contributor Bryce Herdt.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> Standard <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. (Arrow clues cannot contain pentomino shapes.) Also, see this example:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/Pentopia-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 = 2:45, Master = 4:00, Expert = 8:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/190313-Pentopia-BackandForth-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: Back and Forth Author\/Opus: This is the 13th puzzle from guest contributor Bryce Herdt. Rules: Standard Pentopia rules: Place some of the given pentominoes in the grid so that no pentominoes are in adjacent cells that share an edge or corner. 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