Saturday, 24 August 2024

Lavaloid

Here's one of the things which confused me when I first started learning Japanese: Even though は is usually pronounced "ha", when used as a topic marker it's pronounced as "wa". This seems to be because of a spelling reform where all "wa" sounds were changed to わ, except for this particular use case.

Speaking of which, "otter" in Japanese is "kawauso", which kind of ties nicely to today's ✨ Supersized ✨ Uso-one. Congrats to Stef, Cow, Shogia, Mornicus, MikoKisai, Malrog, OwnOneOddOtterOrOnionOfOgre, ericthered13, Lorem, malbolgian, jettyx, AkashG23 ♛, dangernoodle, Garlic and co. 🎄 for the kawauso(-one) 🦦!

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clued cells cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in the (up to) four cells orthogonal to the clue. However, exactly one clue in each region is incorrect.

Finish the puzzle in 6:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 13:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Lying Little Lorikeet

Example (puzz.link) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/5n77fy8t
Puzzle (puzz.link, horizontal): https://tinyurl.com/2wrfyr82
Puzzle (puzz.link, vertical): https://tinyurl.com/bdf57j8h