Thursday, 8 January 2026

jovi_al

Hi everyone! Today's puzzle is an Aquapelago, designed to show off a very common pattern in the genre (given as a GAPP 101 later). The example is also built around it, so I'd recommend fiddling around there and figuring it out, if you wish to (or you can just read the GAPP 101).

Enjoy!

Rules: Shade some cells such that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no 2x2 entirely unshaded. Clues are shaded cells, and a number in a clue indicates the number of shaded cells in the diagonal chain of shaded cells containing the clue.

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 2:30 or less!
To net a Quick Crab 🦀, solve today's puzzle in 5:40 or less!
All other solvers are welcome to their very own Painted 'I'iwi 🐦!

Example:
https://tinyurl.com/2s6rxn49
Puzzle:
https://tinyurl.com/bdftan96

GAPP 101: A 2 clue on the edge has three extra unshaded cells. If any of them were shaded, the 2 would be forced to be at least a 3.