Saturday, 4 November 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's All or Nothing: https://youtu.be/GEdU7Ndg4Ko

How many people could name all the countries in Oceania? I certainly couldn't until a few weeks ago. But being small and isolated doesn't make them any less interesting. After all, it's home to both the unique country without a capital* and the only country straddling all four hemispheres. (Can you name either of these for a bonus otter 🦦?) Perhaps solving this Supersized Aquapelago will serve as a reminder of that.

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.

Here's a little GAPP 101: Shaded groups can have at most one cell at the edge of the grid.

Here are the previous appearances of Aquapelago in GAPP:
- 2023-10-07-shye: Archive: Saturday, 7 October 2023
- 2023-08-24-mbug: Archive: Thursday, 24 August 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Micronesian Mauritius Owl 🐦

Example (Puzz.link), by shye: https://tinyurl.com/2p954yhv
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/mrymy2j7

*ignoring Switzerland, which has no de jure (legally recognized) capital but whose de facto capital is Bern.