Thursday, 21 May 2026

Lavaloid

Now that we've featured Ayeheya and Ayeheyan't, it's time to combine both of them into one variant. Today's GAPP is a Heyawake (Symmetry)!

Previous standard Heyawake by shye: Archive: Saturday, 13 December 2025
Previous Ayeheya by Jovi: Archive: Saturday, 20 September 2025
Previous Ayeheyan't by me: Archive: Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area.
- In a region with an S, the shaded cells must have 180° rotational symmetry around the region’s center. In a region with an A, the shaded cells must not all have 180° rotational symmetry around the region’s center.
- A line of consecutive unshaded cells may not cross more than one bold border.

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 Chimera Chimney Swift 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/49tc7bzz
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/5n67axj9