Can someone please explain the part of the instructions where it says that it is permissible for a pentomino to contain more than one letter? If each letter must be part of a pentomino with that letter’s shape and every cell in the grid is part of exactly one pentomino (no overlap?) then how can this possibly be? I presume I am completely misinterpreting something.
It means that a pentomino may
It means that a pentomino may contain more than one copy of the same letter; or in other words, two or more instances of the same letter may end up in the same pentomino.
The example puzzle doesn't really show this, but you could e.g. add another F clue directly below the given F and it would be still a valid puzzle.
Ohhh the SAME letter! The
Ohhh the SAME letter! The idea being that you don't know if those letters represent one piece or two pieces.. Right! Thank you, montelucci! :-)