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#017: Aqre (Arbitrary Regions) — "Tilted Square"
3 June 2022Tilted square themes seem to be a bit of a meme, so it only seemed appropriate to go down this route for a puzzle where I wanted to double down on this variant’s cursedness by using only fractional clues. I promise that apart from the slightly fiddly counting this is actually a fun solve.
Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. There may not exist a run of more than three consecutive shaded or unshaded cells horizontally or vertically anywhere in the grid.
Variant: Arbitrary Regions — The clue regions are not restricted to the grid that is being shaded. Standard Aqre rules apply, except that the numbers indicate the total shaded area in each region (assuming that each cell has an area of 1).