Saturday, 18 November 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Block Maze: https://youtu.be/_s43dWWC75s

It's getting harder to find not-too-obscure genres that haven't been given the Saturday treatment yet. So you can imagine my surprise when I realised that we've never had a Supersized Aqre (also known as a Cheshire Aqre). Well, now we do.

If you want to warm up with a regular-sized Aqre, you're spoiled for choice:
Archive: Sunday, 7 November 2021 (by Shye)
Archive: Sunday, 3 July 2022 (by Jovi)
Archive: Tuesday, 5 July 2022 (by Freddie, as a Nagenawa doppel)
Archive: Friday, 22 September 2023 (by Shye)
Archive: Friday, 27 October 2023 (by Freddie, as part of the 2nd Anniversary pack)

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. There may not exist a run of more than three consecutive shaded or unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 6:30 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Cheshire Catbird 🐦!

Example (puzz.link), by Shye: https://tinyurl.com/2bu3f7rs
Puzzle (puzz.link, Landscape): https://tinyurl.com/2u434ut8
Puzzle (puzz.link, Portrait): https://tinyurl.com/4shanz92