Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Puzzle 217 ("Bathroom Tiles", Cocktail Lamp)

Cocktail Lamp is a relatively new yet good genre.  Rook (among other people, of course!) introduced me to this type, and while I don't fully understand how to construct it yet, I'm quite happy with how this turned out.  There is a similar looking puzzle from me on PuzzleSquareJP; I found this slight modification later and am more satisfied with the way the solve plays out.

Rules: Shade some cells such that all shaded cells within a region form a single orthogonally connected group. Shaded groups may not be orthogonally adjacent, but must all form a single diagonally connected network. Regions with numbers must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.

Online interface (puzz.link)