Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Lavaloid

Today's GAPP is a Yajilout which is sort of an evil twin to Yajilin. Or maybe an evil part of Yajilin would be more fitting, given Yajilin doesn't require shaded cells to be inside the loop.

Previous standard Yajilin by bakpao: Archive: Friday, 2 May 2025

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all the remaining empty cells. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells in a straight line in the indicated direction.
Variant: All shaded cells must be outside the loop.

GAPP 101: Make sure to look out for cells that are definitely inside the loop, as these can be marked as unshaded.

Finish the puzzle in 1:45 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 3:30 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Penguout 🐦!

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/edeaywye
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/4njhhc6v