Monday, 4 March 2024

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for yesterday's Tapa (Hex): https://youtu.be/jvH6BaiIxrQ

Enigmarch 2024 is here! In case you didn't know, Enigmarch is an annual event where a prompt is released daily from March 1 to March 31, and people (including you! if you want) construct puzzles based on the prompts. You can check https://enigmarch.com/ for more details.

As for today's puzzle, we're featuring Yajilin (Yajisan-Kazusan) based on the prompt for March 2, "false". (That's when I set this puzzle.)

Rules:
- Shade some white cells and then draw a single non-crossing loop through the center of all remaining white cells. Shaded cells must not be orthogonally adjacent with each other.
- Cells with numbered arrows may be shaded or unshaded.
- If the cell is unshaded, it indicates the total number of blackened cells that exist in the direction of the arrow, and the cell must be part of the loop.
- If the cell is shaded, the clue may be ignored.

Finish the puzzle in 2:45 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 5:30 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a False Fernwren 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/248smnf4
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2d7bpnpx