Wednesday, 3 April 2024

Lavaloid

Guide Arrow is a great genre that is unfortunately rarely featured in GAPP, so here's one to remedy this situation. It's also a diagram that shows the direction that the light from a star travels (i.e. outwards).

You can search the previous instances of this genre by typing guide arrow in:daily-pencil-puzzles in the search bar.

Rules: Shade some empty cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No complete loop of cells may be unshaded (including 2x2s). An arrow indicates the only direction in which one could begin a path to the star without going through a shaded cell or backtracking.

Finish the puzzle in 1:45 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 3:30 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Guide Sparrow 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by Jovi: https://tinyurl.com/ymbbtaw6
Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2yvbztxj