Friday, 9 August 2024

Lavaloid

Congrats to @jettyx @Dexter345 @dangernoodle @Scepthan @jubale @Bill Murphy @DL-T @Calump @RynLorathel @MikoKisai @Malrog @kino @Vornicus @Cow @AkashG23 ♛ @GarlicBredFries @Jonathan Chaffer @david glasser @Lorem ! 🦦

The ocean is a strange place. For something that covers 70% of our planet, we know surprisingly little about them. Did you know there are Coral forests in the Mariana Trench? There were some photos of them taken in 2019. Look them up, they're really cool.

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and the unshaded cells are all connected orthogonally by other unshaded cells to the edge of the grid. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.
- Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of each of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, not necessarily in order. The absence of clues in a row/column means there is no information given.

GAPP 101: The checkerboard deduction from Cave also applies here! Specifically, no 2x2 area can consist of a checkerboard of shaded and unshaded cells. This is because to connect the shaded cells, you have to 'wrap around' one of the unshaded cells, preventing it from connecting to the edge of the grid.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Mariana Malia 🐦

Example (puzz.link) from puzz.link rules page: https://tinyurl.com/7ccv3p3p
Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2s4xp8j9