Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Lavaloid

Including today's puzzle, the last four LITS (or variant) we featured have been mine. I am very normal about this genre. Today's GAPP teaches you a certain deduction. I recommend trying it out without the 101, and only reading it if you're stuck.

Previous standard LITS by me: Archive: Friday, 16 January 2026

Rules: Shade one tetromino of cells in each region so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Two tetrominoes of the same shape may not share a bold border, counting rotations and reflections as the same. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

GAPP 101: Two adjacent shaded cells form a "border" in the cells beside them that can't be crossed with shaded cells, in effect splitting the region in two

Finish the puzzle in 1:15 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 3:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Four-in-a-row Forster's Tern 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by jovi: https://tinyurl.com/bdcvrzfn
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/bd6dssj7