Broken Sign Blog
#024: Aqre — "Sunglasses"
18 July 2022I’ve seen a couple of puzzles use gimmicks like this (usually Minesweepers) but no Aqres. Making my self-imposed theme work was a bit of a pain but I’m happy with the result. I’m afraid you’ll have to solve this one on Penpa.
Solve it online:
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.