Sunday, 28 April 2024

Freddie Hand

It's Sunday, which makes it a great day to rest and sit back from puzzle contest fever. Here's a nice gentle Nurikabe. Don't mind the Deltoidal Trihexagonal grid.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. 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. No internal vertex can be entirely surrounded by shaded cells.

Note: The three examples of forbidden patterns are attached.

Here are the last normal-shaped and non-normal-shaped nurikabe in GAPP:
2024-03-14-lava: Archive: Thursday, 14 March 2024
2022-07-10-fred: Archive: Sunday, 10 July 2022 (Hex)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Reposing Rose Robin 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26eh3knl
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22vnkbwh