Thursday, 12 February 2026

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Hello everyone! I've taken the liberty of presenting today's intro in the style of today's genre.

Today's puzzle is a Yajisan-Kazusan. The genre name is a bit long, so it's often shortened to "Heyawake." The genre name is a bit long, so it's often shortened to "Yajikazu." Today's puzzle comes with a GAPP 101 that just covers a common pattern used in the puzzle. This sentence is false.

Rules: Shade some cells such that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected network. If a clue is not shaded, it indicates the number of shaded cells in the arrow's direction in the same row/column, starting from the clue and continuing to the edge of the grid. If a clue is shaded, it becomes meaningless.

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 2:00 or less!
To net a Quick Crab 🦀, solve today's puzzle in 4:30 or less!
All other solvers are welcome to their very own Abbreviated Abbott's Booby 🐦!

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/2kerxbrs
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/43nk8s4z

GAPP 101: The cell adjacent to a 0 in the direction it points is unshaded. If it were shaded, it would unshade the 0, immediately reaching a contradiction because of the shaded cell.