Wednesday, 18 March 2026

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As mentioned in my previous post, the 3rd installment of this year's Puzzle Ramayan, authored by me, is currently happening over on LMI! You have two more days to try the contest and claim a bonus participation otter 🦦 . I've been having a lot of fun following along with all your results and the feedback on the round so far has been wonderful! Be sure to give the puzzles a try if you're interested!

Today's GAPP is a Regional Yajilin!

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all remaining cells. Numbered regions must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells (unnumbered regions can have any number, including zero).

Previous features of Regional Yajilin:
Jun 2024, by Walker (supersized): Archive: Saturday, 8 June 2024
May 2023, by Freddie: Archive: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Apr 2022, by jovi: Archive: Tuesday, 5 April 2022

GAPP 101 🧐 : Any 2x3 area in the grid can contain at most 2 shaded cells. As a consequence, if a 2x2 area with a 2 clue in it appears, none of the cells orthogonally adjacent to it can contain a shaded cell.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 6:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Observant Oilbird 🐦!

Example (pzprxs, by jovi): https://tinyurl.com/3umvctmb
Main (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/3kzzcbt4