Friday, 27 December 2024

Lavaloid

I hope you had a good Christmas. Today's puzzle is a completely normal Nurikabe.

Previous Nurikabe (Triangular) by bakpao: Archive: Sunday, 29 September 2024
Previous standard Nurikabe by me: Archive: Thursday, 14 March 2024

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and every orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells contains exactly one clue, the value of which represents the size of the area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.
? clues are to be replaced by a number.

Finish the puzzle in 2:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Normal Northern Nutcracker 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by xoned: https://tinyurl.com/yf3ewwzf
Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3un3zcky