Monday, September 8, 2025

Genre Spotlight 57: La Paz (Puzzles 372 and 373)

Today's genre is La Paz, a genre invented in 2022 by shye.  This is the third genre in this series that has combined dynasty shading with a region constraint.  I wonder how much more potential this combination has, given how uncommon it seems to be in general.

Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and divide the remaining unshaded cells into two-cell regions. Clued cells cannot be shaded. A clue indicates the number of shaded cells which lie entirely within the same row or column as the region containing the clue. 

           

For today's puzzles, I wanted to focus on smoothness of the solve, which ended up proving rather difficult. This first grid has a few more clues than I'd initially planned, but the puzzle mostly solves itself. 

Puzzle 372 (puzz.link)

As for the second grid ... you may chuckle, but when was the last time I used this theme? It's been a while. I don't even have the "Square" tag anymore!

Puzzle 373 (puzz.link)

 

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