Saturday, 9 March 2024

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for yesterday's Hit Point: https://youtu.be/dOBghZ8Mgwc

Did you know that in Japanese, most kanji character have multiple ways of reading them, including numbers? This means that just by using numbers, one can cover a pretty wide range of the Japanese phonology, leading to a type of wordplay called Goroawase, literally meaning "phonetic matching". Anyways, happy Miku Day! Have a 39 (mi-ku) themed SUPERSIZED Shimaguni.

Rules: Shade a single group of orthogonally connected cells in each region. Shaded groups may not share a bold border. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. Each region must contain at least one shaded cell, and no two adjacent regions may contain the same number of shaded cells.

Interface note: You can use the Number mode to mark the amount of shaded cells a region must have and make some deductions easier to spot.

Finish the puzzle in 6:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 12:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Po-ppi-po-ppi-po Pipipi 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by shye: http://tinyurl.com/4ba3zu6v
Puzzle (puzz.link, Horizontal): https://tinyurl.com/ybjstd9d
Puzzle (puzz.link, Vertical): https://tinyurl.com/y3xw8f43