Gerrymandering (3)
(Published on 31. March 2025, 18:33 by Grausbert)
Disclaimer
This puzzle was inspired by the YouTube-videoessay of Deckard (link).
Before solving this puzzle, I recommend getting familiar to this ruleset by playing my other puzzles with it.
Contrary to those, this puzzle doesn't allow 2x2-blocks of cells in any area.
Gerrymandering Rules
- Draw edges so that there are a number of areas (=orthogonally connected cells) of equal size.
- Every cell belongs to an area and no area contains a 2x2 of connected cells.
- The blue cells must win the most number of areas (no tie with another colour!).
- A colour is said to win an area, if no other colour has more cells in that area.
- An area may not have two colours that share the highest number of cells in that area.
Solution code: The length of continuous blocks of cells in row 8.
Solved by jessica6, tuace, wisty, peterroder
Comments
on 24. June 2025, 01:03 by wisty
Beautiful beautiful!! Straight to my favorites list. Multiple very clever ways of restricting things, from the tricky break-in to the steady flow of connections that follow. I hope more people solve this!
on 12. April 2025, 13:27 by tuace
Nice puzzle. Contrary to my fears, I got through this completely logically.
