Saturday, 31 December 2022

Freddie Hand

New Year's Eve today! And yet ever since I switched from traditional dates to Unix time, it hasn't felt quite the same. (Mumble about the earth's orbit around the sun all you want, that's not something I can see.) Wake me up the next time Halley's Comet comes around. So today's puzzle is an entirely ordinary, but Supersized La Paz.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and divide the remaining unshaded cells into two-cell regions. Clues cannot be shaded. A clue in a horizontal region indicates the number of shaded cells in the same row as the clue; A clue in a vertical region indicates the number of shaded cells in the same column as the clue.

Example, by shye (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4t5a7hf5

Check out the first appearance of La Paz in GAPP here, by shye: https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/960399544510713886

And a Lajisan Pazusan by jovi_al: https://discord.com/channels/709370620642852885/911691996366786600/1007518588606877727 (This is a pretty wacky variant, and probably won't be directly helpful for this puzzle)

Tip: You can't have two clues pointing along the same row/column with different numbers!

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 12:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Altitude 'Anianiau 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4cajct2f

Riri

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