Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Menderbug

We haven't had a whole lot of shading puzzles lately. Let's fix that with a classic: Cave.

Rules: Shade some cells so that the shaded cells are all connected orthogonally by other shaded cells to the edge of the grid, and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line vertically or horizontally, including itself.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Cave Swiftlet 🐦!

Example (pzprxs) by Tyrgannus: https://tinyurl.com/563eddpe
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/4wbwzbh2