Saturday, 27 November 2021

shyeheya

Whooo disturbs my slumberrrr? 🐯
Salaam and good evening dear solvers, for today's GAPP we are going to be venturing into the Cave of Wonders! ✨

Rules: Shade some cells so that the shaded cells are all connected orthogonally by other shaded cells to the edge of the grid, and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area, the cave. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line vertically or horizontally, including the cell itself.
Here is an example/warm-up puzzle which you can either play yourself or just take a look at its solution in the image below!
Example Puzzle: https://puzz.link/p?cave/5/5/h23k4k7k65h

Note: Cave is a genre with a secret up its sleeve 👀 🤫 You may be familiar with the secret of Sudoku, but have you heard of this....
Any 2x2 area of a cave puzzle cannot be a checkerboard of shaded and unshaded cells. This is because to connect the unshaded cells and have just one single cave, you would have to wrap around one of the shaded cells, and in turn stop it from connecting to the edge of the grid
Our cave for today is mostly not reliant on this secret, but knowing it will swiften your solve and may even help you in other genres too!

The diamonds in the rough capable of completing in 2:00 or less win a Speedy Sloth 🦥
The light-footed among you who can match or beat 6:50 can barter a Quick Crab 🦀
And anyone who makes it through the cave get themselves the Scumbag Scarlet Macaw 🐦

Play on Puzz.Link: https://tinyurl.com/2p9cr2tn