Puzzle XL — Results 🏆
The Puzzle XL contest has come to an end! A total of 240 solvers took on this year's oversized challenge.
🥇 EKBM claimed the XL Master title.
🥈 bakpao finished in second place.
🥉 ysbg123 completed the podium.
This edition truly lived up to its XL name, featuring several monstrous puzzles that pushed even the strongest solvers to their limits. The average participant spent more than 10 hours solving the contest.
One puzzle even set a new PuzzleDuel record, becoming the hardest puzzle ever published on the site. It had an average solving time of 93 minutes, and most participants were unable to finish it.
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who accepted the XL challenge. See you next year! 🧩💪
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Author: Andrey Bogdanov
Divide the grid along the grid lines into regions. Each region must contain one orthogonaly connected area of white cells and one area of shaded cells. The pair of areas must be of the same shape and size. The areas may be rotated or mirrored. A number indicates how many cells of one color the region contains. A region may contain several numbers - in this case all numbers must be equal. Additionaly each region should have at least one neighbouring region of consecutive size (area sizes should be one more or one less).
Grid control: To draw a cut click at the cell edge or move mouse along the line holding the button. You can also connect the centers of cells which belong to the same part with auxiliary line. In this case cut lines will be added automatically. More details about grid control are at the help page.