Sunday, 24 March 2024

Lavaloid

Well, this is awkward. A few hours after our last update, the GAPP ship ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal! The salvage mission is ongoing, but it will probably take about a week. Seems that for today's ✨ Strange-Shaped Sunday ✨ we've been hexed with this view of the canal. A Canal View (Hex), if you will.

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells connected in a straight line to the clue.
- No three shaded cells may meet at a vertex (i.e. any 'triangle' of 3 cells cannot be entirely shaded).

Finish the puzzle in 2:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Ever Raven 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/25ggqljy
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/272bhv8s