Monday, 12 May 2025

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It's a double cause for celebration!
This past weekend I fulfilled a goal I have had for a long time: I won my first tournament and became the 2025 Dutch Sudoku champion! 🎉🥳
Also, this puzzle marks my 100th appearance in GAPP! Hopefully you are all still enjoying the puzzles I contribute to this project - I certainly look forward to writing many more!

Today's GAPP is a celebratory Cocktail Lamp!

Rules: Shade some cells such that all shaded cells within a region form a single orthogonally connected group. Shaded groups may not be orthogonally adjacent, but must all form a single diagonally connected network. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Here are all previous instances of Cocktail Lamp in GAPP:
Nov/24 by Menderbug: Archive: Monday, 4 November 2024
Mar/24 by Freddie: Archive: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Apr/23 by Tyrgannus (supersized): Archive: Saturday, 8 April 2023
Feb/23 by Tyrgannus: Archive: Thursday, 9 February 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Jubilant Junco 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, by Tyrg): https://tinyurl.com/mr3wdcj7
Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yzhts42s