Sunday, 8 September 2024

Lavaloid

The strange shape store is out of stock today, so let's have a ✨ Square-Shaped Sunday ✨ instead. Today's puzzle is an Aqre (Arbitrary Regions)!

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area.
- There may not exist a run of more than three consecutive shaded or unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid.
- Regions with numbers must contain the indicated area of shaded cells. (The area of one cell is 1.)

Finish the puzzle in 4:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 10:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Fractional Flamingo 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ckvfteb
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2b8axmyg