Thursday, 30 December 2021
Ah, Venice. "La Dominante", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Bridges", "City of Canals"... the list goes on. For a long time the setting of two Shakespeare plays, it can now add to its accolades by claiming to be the setting of a Prasiam Seshadrispeare genre.
Fortunately, in this Canal View the mini-Venice you will be constructing does not have bridges, 🌉❌ because jovi_al stole them the tourists here are strangely obsessed with staying put for hours and counting how much water they can see.
Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells connected in a straight line horizontally or vertically to the clue. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.
Example (penpa) by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/2ckse2yv
Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:45 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Venetian Verdin 🐦
Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/3cscuz8h
