Thursday, 5 September 2024

Freddie Hand

Hello. I'm posting this Aquapelago (Dominoes) on behalf of Menderbug today.

Today, I learnt that the word "aquapelago" was coined as recently as 2012, in the Shima online journal (I know what that means! Thanks, Shimaguni). I'm sure in 2112 we'll look back on this moment as one of the humanity's great breakthroughs. Also today, the word "Pauritius" was invented by me to make the bird name alliterate. History might not treat this invention so kindly.

Also no-one looks at the birds anyway. I bet none of you had any idea that I've used 4 wrens in the last couple of months. Today's sloth and crab times are 20 seconds to force you to appreciate our aviculture. Good luck Sam. (The actual time standards are in the spoilers as always)

Rules: Shade some dominoes of cells so that no two shaded dominoes are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 area may be entirely unshaded. Clued cells must be shaded, and indicate the number of dominoes in the diagonally connected group they belong to.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Polynesian Pauritius Owl 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2afhv8e5
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/25yvro66