Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Koburin, a genre recently added to puzz.link along with a slew of others. This is basically a Yajilin variant, but it has a cool new name which is much more conducive to anagramming. Indeed, if you find one of these puzzles in the database, it might have a KOBURIN TAG.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all of the remaining empty cells. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells orthogonally adjacent to them (i.e. clues can range from 0 up to 4) (Note these are not Minesweeper style clues!)

Example (Puzz.link) from puzz.link rules page: https://tinyurl.com/fu82auzk

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 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 an Shloopy Souza's Shrike 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yfx7bzja