Fishing Pentominoes
(Published on 12. September 2025, 09:00 by Agent)
Pentominoes:
- Shade some pentominoes in the grid that may not touch orthogonally, but may touch diagonally.
- Each pentomino from the bank outside the grid must appear exactly once. Rotations and reflections are allowed.
Anglers:
- From each clue outside the grid, draw a path which immediately goes into the nearest cell of the grid and then travels through the centers of some cells until arriving at a fish.
- Paths may not cross themselves, each other, or fish.
Interactions:
- Each shaded pentomino must contain exactly one fish.
- All unshaded cells and some shaded cells must be used by a path.
- The letter at the beginning of a path indicates the shape of the pentomino reached at the end of the path, as indicated in the bank outside the grid. A question mark may represent any letter.
- Each path only visits the pentomino that contains its fish, and when entering that pentomino, the path must travel straight to the fish without turning or exiting the pentomino.
Solution code: The number of turns of the paths in each row, from top to bottom.
Comments
on 11. August 2026, 17:53 by booteskey
Very cool puzzle! I liked exploring the spatial mechanics, which cascaded once I started to make sense of them. Thanks for including a solution code.
on 24. June 2026, 00:03 by boomsoon
Really nice! It flowed really smoothly the whole way. I happened to spot the break in quickly, so it didn't feel like four stars to me, but I can see how it could be tricky at the start.
on 23. October 2025, 08:30 by Playmaker6174
Excellent setting, very good use of the connectivity logic in here! Funny how some points I thought to be impossible to resolve actually had some nice yet sneaky way to progress next x)
on 19. October 2025, 05:58 by KNT
perfectly set, as always
on 20. September 2025, 16:31 by sfushidahardy
Super fun! Much easier than it looks.
on 14. September 2025, 21:47 by MagnusJosefsson
Fantastic! Very fun ruleset and a wonderfully designed path!
on 12. September 2025, 17:19 by ibag
Was für ein schönes Rätsel!!!
on 12. September 2025, 16:13 by Piatato
Great fun, thanks!
on 12. September 2025, 15:40 by Jesper
A pleasure to solve
on 12. September 2025, 12:26 by Christounet
Very good fun! Connectivity deductions are nothing hard but so satisfying. Thanks :)
