Friday, 22 April 2022

Eric Fox

Some people may have gotten thrown off by the fact that in Yajisan-Kazusan, shaded clues don't have to be true. In today's genre Smullyanic Dynasty - which is overall quite similar to YajiKazu - the rules might be slightly more intuitive:

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Unshaded clues indicate the number of shaded cells in the surrounding 3x3 area. Shaded clues must not.
(The "surrounding 3x3 area" includes the clued cell itself)

Try the example puzzle here: https://tinyurl.com/y2nvfeqf

Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth 🦥
Complete it in 8:00 or under to earn a Quick Crab 🦀
All other solvers get a Smullyanic Scaup 🐦

Link to the puzzle:
https://tinyurl.com/yyb7urlt