Tuesday, 27 May 2025

bakpao

Sometimes you just have one of those days where you spend hours and hours trying to write puzzles, yet fail to come up with anything you like. Yesterday was one of those days, as I just couldn't write a GAPP for the life of me. I tried again today and decided to try to write a Kurotto, a genre that I've not revisited much ever since hosting Kurotto Kingdom on LMI a few years ago and using up every idea I had for it. Most of the time I spend trying to write Kurotto nowadays ends up in more wasted effort, but thankfully the genre came to my rescue today.

Rules: Shade some cells so that clues represent the total size of the orthogonally connected areas of shaded cells that share an edge with the clue. Clued cells cannot be shaded.

Previous classic Kurotto:
Sep/22 by Riri: Archive: Friday, 30 September 2022
Jul/22 by Freddie (supersized): Archive: Saturday, 30 July 2022
Feb/22 by Freddie: Archive: Sunday, 27 February 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Royal Redstart 🐦!

Example (pzprxs, from puzz.link rules page): https://tinyurl.com/ckc6m2a3
Main puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/rzzux3uy