Pentominous by Serkan Yürekli
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Theme: Letter Boxes
Author/Opus: This is the 253rd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.
Rules: Standard Pentominous rules.
Answer String: Enter the letter associated with the pentomino occupying each cell in the marked row from left to right then in the marked column from top to bottom, separating the groups with a comma. Use CAPITAL LETTERS!
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:45, Master = 5:15, Expert = 10:30
Solution: PDF
Note: Follow this link for other Pentominous puzzles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Pentominous to get started on. More Pentominous puzzles can be found in Plenty o’ Pentominous by Grant Fikes and Murat Can Tonta and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.
Once again time standards seem pretty slow to me, with a pleasant but fairly simple solving path.
We had one tester with much faster times that seemed to be an outlier and didn’t factor into the standards; perhaps I should reevaluate this. It seems likely for this style that there are solvers very good at dissection puzzles and/or following up on intuitive placements that can get very fast times.