<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Chaos at the Sky]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[chaotic_iak]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com/author/chaoticiak/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[FFF 3: The&nbsp;Isolation]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><em>Fancy Fillomino February: This is a series of 28 (twenty-eight) 7&#215;7 Fillomino puzzles over the February. Every <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20130203T00&amp;p1=437&amp;p2=137&amp;p3=179&amp;p4=0&amp;p5=236">00.00 UTC+7</a> a new puzzle will be up. The basic <a href="https://chaosatthesky.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/fff-01/">Fillomino</a> rules apply unless otherwise indicated.</em></p>
<p><b>Consecutive Fillomino</b> In addition to the regular Fillomino rules, every polyomino must be orthogonally adjacent to another polyomino with a size exactly 1 greater or 1 less than the polyomino.</p>
<p><b>Difficulty</b> 2.5/10 <b>Target time</b> 1:00</p>
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Consecutive Fillomino&lt;/p&gt;
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<p><em>Sky finds it hard to believe that one of the kids from the local kindergarten has no friends just because &#8220;he&#8217;s odd&#8221;. So Sky makes this puzzle to show that everyone else is odd, not him, and also that he can make friends by finding similar people to him. What a story.</em><br />
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Third puzzle. Yes, it&#8217;s possible to put an odd number at the center, but I love the theme so much that I decide not to. (Besides, changing it to the only odd number possible for that position makes the puzzle slightly easier. 😛 )</p>
<p>UPDATE (14-Feb-2013): Apparently this layout is similar to <a href="http://anuragthefirst.blogspot.com/2012/11/puzzle-206-touchy-fillomino.html">Anuraag Sahay&#8217;s Consecutive Fillomino</a>. Although I got this layout on my own (highly symmetrical layouts are easy to make; you only need to specify 10 out of 49 cells in order to determine all the cells containing givens, so clashes might occur), Anuraag sent an e-mail asking me to attribute his puzzle. So, well, here it is. Layout is accidentally similar to that puzzle, which is also accidentally a Consecutive/Touchy Fillomino.</p>
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