Saturday, 25 October 2025

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Today's Supersized Saturday puzzle is a Heyawake, the first genre we ever covered in this series, which began four years ago as of Monday (stay tuned for what we have in store for that 👀)! It's also the first non-Sudoku pencil puzzle genre I ever learned.

Rules: Shade some cells such that no two orthogonally adjacent cells are both shaded and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected network. A number in a region indicates the number of shaded cells in that region. A continuous horizontal or vertical line of unshaded cells must not cross more than one region border.

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 4:00 or less!
To net a Quick Crab 🦀, solve today's puzzle in 9:00 or less!
All other solvers are welcome to a Nostalgic Neddicky 🐦!

Example: https://tinyurl.com/2b34ctkb
Puzzle (Vertical): https://tinyurl.com/y3zfy6zm
Puzzle (Horizontal): https://tinyurl.com/53f6r4t6