Thursday, 24 August 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Hydra: https://youtu.be/4QyJxztqveM

Time to hand out another otter: congrats to @Leo for correctly guessing Aquapelago 🦦. Since we've never featured the genre before, I would also like to give an honourable Ottopus to @hunchcat, @Vornicus, @Malrog, @MikoKisai and @dunder_code for guessing Aquarium, getting about half of the word right. 🐙

Anyway! Today's genre is a somewhat recent invention of @Walker's and it's a doozy. It's got such a natural ruleset that it might very well be the quintessential (regionless) dynasty genre. It's also very satisfying to solve and yet has a lot of depth.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 area may be entirely unshaded. Some shaded cells may be given. If they contain a number, it indicates the total number of shaded cells in the diagonally connected group they belong to.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Aquatic Warbler 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26jvo8s6
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2afxz5dt