Boulders 2
(Published on 14. January 2022, 10:00 by Mark Sweep)
This one should have some different logic compared to the previous puzzle of this new genre I published. Enjoy!
Rules
Shade some boulders in the grid, such that no two boulders touch each other, even diagonally. Boulders are orthogonally connected groups of shaded cells, without enclosing any unshaded cells within them. In addition, no two boulders in the grid have the same size. Clues denote the amount of cells in the 3x3 area centered around it, including itself, that are part of boulders.
Example
The puzzle
Solution code: The lengths of consecutive lines of shaded and unshaded cells in rows 1 and 8. The example would be 512 8.
Comments
on 10. November 2024, 20:35 by Calesch
fixed solving links:
Penpa: https://tinyurl.com/msv7x6k4
SudokuPad: https://sudokupad.app/wg3yi6trvc
on 14. January 2022, 17:24 by SudokuExplorer
Thanks for making another one! Really nice again :-)
on 14. January 2022, 11:29 by MagnusJosefsson
Very nice, Mark! It felt easier than the first one for me as well, though I must admit I had good use for the logic I had found in the first one. Anyway, a very enjoyable solve!
on 14. January 2022, 11:15 by Jesper
Great fun! I was happy to see another puzzle based on this ruleset. The puzzle felt significantly easier than the first one (perhaps just the prior experience being beneficial?).
