Friday, 5 July 2024

bakpao

It's been ages since our last Putteria.
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What's that? We just had one? Okay, well, in that case, let me just change make a tiny little change - surely nobody will notice, right?!

Today's puzzle is a Nutteria! This is a bit of a silly and very old Nikoli genre. It is included in the Omoro Complete Puzzle Collection book, published in 2004, which contains all Nikoli-(reader-)created puzzle types from 1998 to 2004.

Rules: Shade some cells such that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and each region contains exactly one unshaded cell. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded. A clue represents how many of the (up to) four orthogonally adjacent cells are shaded.

GAPP 101 🧐: The only one unshaded cell per region rule can be very powerful in combination with the no 2x2 shaded rule. If you find yourself stuck towards the latter half of the solve, try looking for cells within a region that would form a 2x2 if all of them were shaded. You can then use that to limit down the unshaded cell to those cells, and in turn shade all the remaining cells in the region!

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Nilgiri Pipit 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2deozvlv
Main puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/25lqo48x