Monday, October 6, 2025

Genre Spotlight 61: Martini (Puzzles 380 and 381)

Today's genre is a shading type called Martini.  It appears on puzz.link but I'm otherwise not sure where the type originates.  Perhaps it's a Nikoli Omopa?  Regardless, it's an interesting type that allows for some interesting interactions.

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. Cells with black circles must be shaded. Cells with white circles must not. A number in a white circle indicates the total number of circles that are in its orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells. 

          

 You may have noticed that I wrote one of these puzzles for PuzzleSquareJP earlier yesterday.  For some reason, I decided to make life harder for myself and not use that grid for this spotlight.  Sometimes I make bad life choices.

This first puzzle is pretty silly.  I had this theme idea and just needed to try it.  I'm sure it's possible to execute this theme more elegantly.

Puzzle 380 (puzz.link)

This second puzzle is a bit more involved. I still tried to make it smooth, though, so the beginning is maybe a bit more clued than I'd like.  The solve path tightens after a certain step.

Puzzle 381 (puzz.link)

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