38 - Aquapelago
After a couple of weeks of technical difficulties, I'm excited to finally announce that today's new puzz.link genre is Aquapelago. This genre is a recent invention by Walker Anderson, which now has an implementation thanks to the efforts of Martin Ender. You may have also seen this genre featured recently on Cracking the Cryptic. I may have gotten lucky, but I found setting puzzles in this genre to be a lot easier than most of the other genres from this project. Quite enjoyable to set. Hopefully that translates to good puzzles to solve, as well.
Here's the rules and example from the rules page:
Shade some cells on the board. Some shaded cells may be given. Shaded cells cannot be horizontally or vertically adjacent. There cannot be a 2x2 square that's entirely unshaded, and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. A number indicates the amount of cells in its diagonally connected group of shaded cells.
The first puzzle is larger but has easier logic. The second puzzle is smaller but is a little harder to solve logically. They both have a theme of clues pairs on the edges. The third puzzle is both the biggest and hardest. Since the other two puzzles had all of their clues on the edge, I deliberately aimed to have none of the clues touching the edge for the third. It was originally supposed to be 12x12, but it grew to 14x13 to accommodate all of the logic that I wanted to include.
Here's the puzzles:
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