Tuesday, 20 August 2024

bakpao

Only a few otters today! Very well done to @Malrog, @Lorem, @MikoKisai and @dangernoodle for guessing today's genre right! 🦦

While abroad 🛫 last week, I wanted to eat at a Japanese 🇯🇵 restaurant with great reviews 👌 online. However, it was located in a neighborhood 🌆 many described as best avoided 🕵️‍♂️. Against my better judgement, I went to the nearest station 🚋 one evening anyway, where everything about the area immediately struck me as very shady. Viewing the area from the comfort of a safe distance 📏 for a while, I eventually decided against it and made my way back home 🏨, to try again in daylight. The next day I went back during lunch time 🍽️ and boy was it worth it - I enjoyed a delicious meal! 😋 Unfortunately the restaurant had no unadon 🍚 (my favorite), so I ordered garlic fried rice 🧄 instead. While it looked a bit basic 🤔, reeked strongly 👃 and cost a fortune, it tasted fantastic. I gave a generous tip 💵 and left completely satisfied. What a blessed afternoon 🙏!

Today's puzzle is a Pata!

Rules:
Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive unshaded cells in the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue. Clue cells are treated as unshaded. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Pata has appeared once before (Oct/22 by Freddie): Archive: Friday, 28 October 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 6:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a PATAAAAculo 🐦!

Example (Penpa+, by Freddie): https://tinyurl.com/48tjjwet
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2dy56c9m