Limbs
Partition the grid into disjoint “creatures”, according to the following rules:
- Each creature is defined as a shape of 4 connected branches that are each 1 cell wide.
- For each creature, one of the branches ends up with a HEAD (always clued) and the other three branches end up with LIMBS (whenever clued, their directions matter).
- A creature can never occupy a 2×2 region of cells and can never touch itself.
Examine the first example, then solve the other three puzzles.
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Limbs-Example.webp)
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Closet-Limbs-Easy.jpg)
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Builders-Limbs-Medium.jpg)
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Shooting-Limbs-Hard.jpg)
The solutions are shown below.
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/832B4210-2407-4341-B25E-80CF8C9450A3.png)
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/485089F7-9C7E-4558-BABF-328855F1A99B.png)
![](https://www.puzzleprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/B5E71090-F356-4853-BB29-21304E3026DC.png)