Statue Park by Grant Fikes
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Theme: Logical (or to match an earlier puzzle: Zero X)
Author/Opus: This is the 127th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Grant Fikes.
Rules: Standard Statue Park rules. Note: there are just 11 pentominoes.
Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the shaded segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry from the next with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 4:45, Master = 7:30, Expert = 15:00
Solution: PDF
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25m.Very hard but very nice puzzle
05:57.
Nice puzzle, difficult but not overly so. And I see that theme, well done too. Is that additional theme really intentional?
I spent a bit too long toward the end of this puzzle thinking “But there’s nowhere the X pentomino can fit!” Then I actually noticed that the tile set only included 11 pentominoes, finally. D’oh. (Don’t know what the earlier puzzle being referred to is, though.)
The Wednesday puzzle during this week, a Shape Sudoku by Serkan Yürekli, also went by “Zero X”. It was the origin of the title, but given my expectation solvers would miss the piece inventory I thought to apply it to this Statue Park too.
Oh, right. I broke that puzzle the first time through (even though it isn’t very hard — just did something careless), and didn’t get back to it until later, so I missed the connection at the time.