Monday, 8 September 2025

Lavaloid

I've been having fun playing Silksong, though it turns out to be a pretty difficult game. Hopefully, today's Cave (No 2x2) won't be as difficult.

Previous standard Cave by Menderbug: Archive: Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Rules: Shade some cells so that the shaded cells are all connected orthogonally by other shaded cells to the edge of the grid, and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line vertically or horizontally, including itself.
Variant: No 2x2 areas can be entirely shaded or entirely unshaded.

GAPP 101: Any 2x2 area of a cave puzzle cannot be a checkerboard of shaded and unshaded cells. This is because to connect the unshaded cells and have just one single cave, you would have to wrap around one of the shaded cells, and in turn stop it from connecting to the edge of the grid.

Finish the puzzle in 2:22 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:44 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Red go-SHAW!-k 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2yylmjv8
Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/y6madhtu
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2arra4h8
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/yc5j5u7c