SLICY
SLICY is a hexagonal-grid variation of the classic LITS puzzle, proposed by Thomas Snyder (Dr. Sudoku) in 2015.
The name SLICY was chosen to evoke the visual appearance of the shapes used in the puzzle.
While standard LITS is played on a square grid and uses four tetromino shapes (L, I, T, S), the switch to a hexagonal grid allows the construction of five distinct shapes. This change expands the puzzle’s geometry and introduces new solving patterns, while maintaining the familiar spirit of region-based shading puzzles.
SLICY preserves the core principles of LITS but adapts them to a richer grid structure, resulting in a fresh and visually striking variant.
The name SLICY was chosen to evoke the visual appearance of the shapes used in the puzzle.
While standard LITS is played on a square grid and uses four tetromino shapes (L, I, T, S), the switch to a hexagonal grid allows the construction of five distinct shapes. This change expands the puzzle’s geometry and introduces new solving patterns, while maintaining the familiar spirit of region-based shading puzzles.
SLICY preserves the core principles of LITS but adapts them to a richer grid structure, resulting in a fresh and visually striking variant.
Rules
Shade exactly four connected cells in each outlined region. All shaded cells should form a single connected area. No three shaded cells can share a common vertex. Shaded cells in each outlined region form a tetrahex (S, L, I, C, or Y) and two tetrahex of the same type shouldn't share an edge.
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