Statue Park: Knight's Lines

Question

This is a Statue Park puzzle.

Rules of Statue Park:

• Shade some cells of the grid to form the given set of pieces. Pieces may be rotated or reflected.
• Pieces cannot be orthogonally adjacent (though they can touch at a corner).
• All unshaded cells must be (orthogonally) connected.
• Any cells with black circles must be shaded; any cells with white circles must be unshaded.

The piece bank is the 12 pentominoes, which have been given the standard lettering for your convenience -- the letters have no effect on the puzzle.

Answer 1

Cool Puzzle! I had never seen these before.

Final Solution:

Step 1:

The tile must extend out. It cannot connect to the next shaded cell because it would be size 6. It cannot block off the unshaded cells, so it must therefor be the F tile.

Step 2:

This is the only cell that is not a border and has no adjacent unshaded cells. It must be the X tile

Step 3:

Through extension and allowing the unshaded to attach, the top left is forced to U tile

Step 4:

L tile is forced through extension and connection

Step 5:

N tile is forced through extension and connection

Step 6:

This is the only location that the I tile fits.

Step 7:

All possibilities for tiles that fit in this location other than P were already used.

Step 8:

With P used, that leaves only T for the bottom left corner.

Step 9:

Through extension and connection, only Z fits in the bottom middle

Step 10:

Through extension and connection, W is the only tile that fits on the left.

Step 11:

The unshaded cell to the right and up blocked the V tile, so the Y tile is the only one that fits

Step 12:

There are two possible orientations for the V tile. One blocks off half of the puzzle and prevents connection, therefore only one orientation remains to solve the puzzle.