Monday, 22 January 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Hitori: https://youtu.be/iM-vDWFLWqo

To our UK-based solvers, I hope that your roofs have managed to stay intact, and that nobody is feeling under the weather. Thankfully we haven't seen any meteorologists assuring us that there are no hurricanes on the way.

Today's Nurikabe is another genre that appears in the ongoing Puzzle Ramayan round. As always, there's a bonus otter 🦦 on offer for taking part, but more importantly, good puzzles! You can start the contest (or simply access the set) here: https://logicmastersindia.com/live/?contest=PR202401

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area.

There have been a large number of Nurikabe in GAPP. Here's the most recent one, which links to several more older ones:
2023-08-08-shye: Archive: Tuesday, 8 August 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Counting Cachar Bulbul 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/mr446h8m
Puzzle (Puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/5a6tkfzj