Friday, 19 July 2024

Lavaloid

You step onto the stage. Lights and cameras are all pointing at you, and the crowd's eyes are fixed on you. Tonight, You are the Star of the show... wait wrong genre

You step onto the stage. Lights and cameras are all pointing at you, and the crowd's eyes are fixed on you. Tonight, You are the Star Point a Star of the show.

Rules: Place stars into some cells such that no two stars touch orthogonally or diagonally. Numbers outside the grid shows the amount of stars in that row or column. Arrows point to exactly one star. Stars cannot occupy the same cell as arrows.

GAPP 101: There's a very common Star Battle deduction that you'll likely need to solve this puzzle. A rectangular region of size 1 x 2N can only contain N stars at most, one for each domino. If a domino (1x2 region) must contain a star, then all cells touching it along the longer side cannot also contain a star, otherwise they must touch diagonally.

Interface note: You can use Shading or Composite > Star Battle for answer checking.

Finish the puzzle in 3:33 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 7:30 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Starling? 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2dlsayxr
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2a3bqulv