Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Lavaloid

Congratulations to @Oripy and @xetto for earning today's bonus otter 🦦!

Today's GAPP is an Akichiwake. Speaking of which, y'all should go solve the bonus Akichiwake in Mind the GAPP vol. 19. Because it's a good puzzle and not for any other reasons, of course.

Previous Akichiwake by bakpao: Archive: Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. A number indicates the size of the largest group of connected unshaded cells within its region. A line of consecutive unshaded cells may not cross more than one bold border.

GAPP 101: Look out for regions with orthogonally connected groups of unshaded cells that are one less than the given number. These may be very restricted.

Finish the puzzle in 2:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Subtle Snowcap 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, from puzz.link rules page): https://tinyurl.com/23j95hrh
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/2nbmh49r