Sunday, June 8, 2025

Genre Spotlight 41: View (Puzzles 340 and 341)

Today's genre has been on puzz.link for a while but is still somewhat niche.  View is an old Nikoli type that feels like Sukoro in many ways.

Rules: Place a number into some cells so that all cells with numbers form one orthogonally connected area. Numbers represent how many numberless cells are connected to them in a straight line horizontally or vertically. No two orthogonally adjacent cells may contain the same number.

                    

Making a flowy puzzle in this genre is tough, so both grids today are a bit tricky.  The second puzzle is new, while the first appeared in the most recent Indian Puzzle Championship (also written by me).  myamya claims the second one is significantly easier; that may be true, but I still struggled with it when testsolving.

Puzzle 340 (puzz.link)

 

Puzzle 341 (puzz.link)

 

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