Friday, 23 May 2025

jovi_al

Hey everyone! My name is Nellie, and I'm excited to be on the GAPP team again! Why yes, I am the same person as Jovi, but I don't use that name online anymore. Nothing much more to say---today's an Archipelago! er... Aquapelago! I've been playing a lot of multiworld randomizers lately...

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 area may be entirely unshaded. Clued cells must be shaded, and indicate the number of shaded cells in the diagonally connected group they belong to.

We've covered this genre without variants six times in the past:
13/03/2025 by Menderbug: Archive: Thursday, 13 March 2025
16/01/2025 by Lavaloid: Archive: Thursday, 16 January 2025
12/12/2023 by Shye: Archive: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
4/11/2023 by Freddie: Archive: Saturday, 4 November 2023
7/10/2023 by Shye: Archive: Saturday, 7 October 2023
24/08/2023 by Menderbug: Archive: Thursday, 24 August 2023

Example (puzz.link) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/2p954yhv

To get a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 1:30 or less!
To get a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 3:25 or less!
All other solvers are rewarded with a Mellifluous Mockingbird 🐦!

Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4d4v9een