Hey everyone, I'm back for one day to kick off Instructionless Week here at GAPP! Things are going to work a little differently this week:

- All seven puzzles this week use original rulesets (to the best of our knowledge).
- You will not be given the rules to each puzzle.* Instead, you need to figure out the rules based on the solved example puzzle and the main puzzle. Both will always have a unique solution under the same ruleset.
- *If you're stumped, or you just really dislike instructionless puzzles, we will be providing spoilers with (a) a hint, and (b) the full ruleset, but we strongly encourage everyone to give the rule discovery aspect a go.
- There won't be any target times. Instead, you can obtain a Sly Sloth 🦥 by solving the main puzzle without clicking either spoiler, and a Crafty Crab 🦀 for using the hint but not checking the full rules. As always, there will be a bird 🐦 if you solve the puzzle at all.

If you've never solved an instructionless puzzle before, here are some general tips:

- Your biggest clue is always the solved example. Take a look at the solution and start forming some hypotheses. Which part or property of the solution might the clues refer to? Does the solution have any interesting structural properties that might be part of the rules?
- Solve the example puzzle! Many of you do this anyway, but it's particularly important this week, because it's the easiest way to check your hypothesis. If the example has multiple solutions under your ruleset, you're either missing another rule component or you're on the wrong track.
- Once you've found a working ruleset for the example, it's time for the main puzzle! Ideally, this will just be a regular GAPP solve at this point. It is however possible that you'll run into a contradiction. The most likely cause for this is that your ruleset contained an extra rule that wasn't required to make the example unique, so it's time to review your assumptions.

So without further ado, here's your first Instructionless GAPP. Again, only click the hint (or the full rules) if you're completely stumped on what the rules might be.

Hint: ⚠️ When a cell contains dots, they always fall onto a 3x3 grid. Compare the patterns to the 3x3 neighbourhood of the clued cell. ⚠️

Full rules:

⚠️⚠️ Shade some cells such that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues indicate the pattern of shaded cells in the 3x3 neighbourhood of the clued cell. This pattern may be rotated, but not reflected. (Cells outside the grid are considered unshaded.) ⚠️⚠️

Score a Sly Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle without using either spoiler.
Collect a Crafty Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle using only the hint.
Or finish the puzzle using the full rules to become the proud owner of a Bamboozled Bamboowren 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/23g5lvvk
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2btmlnps
Combined: https://tinyurl.com/ykqe7fs2 (solve the lefthand example grid and the main puzzle for answer check)