Sunday, 10 July 2022

Freddie Hand

Hello. Today's puzzle is a Nurikabe (Hexagonal), which is surprisingly on an irregular grid. No particular reason for that.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No internal vertex can be entirely surrounded by shaded cells, i.e no 3-cell 'triangle' can be entirely shaded.

Note: this variant differs from Nurikabe only in the last (italicized) sentence.

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2g236dj3

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Polygonal Palawan Peacock-Pheasant 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ebd4op3