Thursday, 29 May 2025

Freddie Hand

Here's a Yajikabe. I propose some ideas for variants on this genre:
- Yajikabe (Yajisan-Kazusan): clues can be shaded, and may be false if shaded.
- Yajikabe (Twilight): clues can be shaded, and if shaded instead give the number of unshaded cells in the given direction.
These might seem fun, but you'll probably quickly realise why neither of these will appear on GAPP anytime soon.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and no 2x2 region is entirely shaded. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in a straight line in the indicated direction.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Truthful Trumpet Manucode 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/23ntfwct
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/24jpurrb