Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Lavaloid

Since the first Puzzle Ramayan round of the year is coming soon, I went with the obvious choice: a variant from the already finished Puzzle GP round. Today's GAPP is a Hitori (Aqre)!

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No two cells in the same row or column containing the same number may both be unshaded. There may not exist a run of more than three consecutive unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid.

Finish the puzzle in 2:10 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:20 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Lonely Lorikeet 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2c5kc7x4
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2dgqkabs