Friday, 7 November 2025

Lavaloid

Besides Yajilout, there's another puzz.loutk genre that gaouted the "Out" variant, which is a good thoutg because the rule has some outerestoutg deductions. Today's GAPP is a Koburout! This was a strange outtro

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 orthogonally adjacent to it.
Variant: All shaded cells must be outside the loop.

Previous standard Koburin by Menderbug: Archive: Monday, 13 November 2023

GAPP 101: If a cell is 1 cell away from the grid edge and has no clue cells between, then it must be unshaded, as otherwise the shaded cell must be inside the loop.

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 Grey-woutged Outca Foutch 🐦!

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/4tny6n25
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/yc8y46a8