Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Freddie Hand

Here is a Canal View (Big Clues), borrowing inspiration from bakpao's 24 hour puzzle championship round. I was fortunate enough not to be subjected to that onslaught, and can take as much time as I want solving the puzzles afterwards.

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Clues cannot be shaded, and represent the number of shaded cells connected in a straight line horizontally or vertically to the clue. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Note: One way to look at big clues is to think of them as multiple individual clues which sum to the number in the big clue.

Canal View has appeared a few times in GAPP. Here is a classic one by shye: Archive: Thursday, 25 January 2024

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 Expanded Esmeraldas Woodstar 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/45ym7mh9
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yc6j85rh