Cavino (Canal View Nonogram)
(Published on 5. April 2024, 08:32 by PrimeWeasel)
Shade some empty cells dark gray to create a single orthogonally connected canal. Numbered cells cannot be shaded as canals, and canal cells cannot form a 2x2 square anywhere in the grid. Each numbered cell indicates the total number of shaded canal cells connected vertically and horizontally (in a straight line) to that numbered cell.
In addition, each unshaded (i.e, non-canal) region must be colored entirely as a single color selected from red, green, or blue. The clues outside the grid indicate the number of orthogonally connected unshaded cells of the respective color(s) in that row or column, they can not be 0,and contiguous runs of same coloured cells have to be separated by at least one shaded cell. If clues outside the row/column are given, those are all the clues for that row/column, and they appear in the same color order as the unshaded regions in that row/column; rows/columns without clues may have any number of unshaded cells. Unshaded cells of different colors must not touch orthogonally (i.e, they must be separated by at least one canal cell). All numbered cells must be colored along with the other cells in their respective region. There can be different regions of the same color (there seems to be some confusion over this).
Penpa
Answer check should work with green edges drawn.
The direct inspiration and creator of this combination of rulesets dumediat's puzzle with a visual example can be found here:
Emergence
Solution code: Row 4 and row 10 as a 20-character string (no spaces), using the following characters to depict the shading color: blue = B, red = R, green = G, gray/black = X
Last changed on on 17. September 2024, 07:44
Solved by Jesper, Tacosian, Ploctypus, Piatato, StefanSch, Mark Sweep, Paletron, dumediat, ONeill, CHalb, MagnusJosefsson, h5663454, Krokant, Mr_tn, jkuo7, Counterfeitly, wisty, JustinTucker, KNT, Christounet, ... SparklePuzzle, TheZwierz, godoffours, wildbush7, Xendari, RubberMittens, aliciaprobably, ManuH, Uhu, taide, AnnaTh, dogfarts, RJBlarmo, Phistomefel, sinamon, Andrewsarchus, Ktt, bereolosp, fjam
Comments
on 16. September 2024, 20:39 by Phistomefel
Very pretty and fun! Thank you, PrimeWeasel!
on 27. May 2024, 12:33 by Xendari
great puzzle!
on 20. April 2024, 11:26 by Playmaker6174
Sweet and plenty of fun, thanks! :)
on 8. April 2024, 02:59 by SudokuExplorer
Stunning! Really enjoyable and rewarding to solve, thanks :-)
on 8. April 2024, 00:39 by Christounet
Super ! Thanks :)
on 6. April 2024, 19:31 by wisty
I love this genre, thanks for sharing your own fun execution of it :)
on 6. April 2024, 10:55 by matzrh
@piatato. Yes I was wondering and not sure if I got something completely wrong. Thanks
on 6. April 2024, 10:53 by Piatato
@matzrh How can a blue region connect from column 4 to column 6?
on 6. April 2024, 10:41 by matzrh
Can you specify if there may be more than one red, green or blue regions each that are not necessarily connected? E.g. there may be two or more blue regions?
on 5. April 2024, 16:16 by MagnusJosefsson
Great puzzle, thanks!
on 5. April 2024, 13:00 by dumediat
I’m honored that one of my puzzles inspired you to make this!! This was great fun to solve, thank you for sharing it! :D
on 5. April 2024, 11:01 by Piatato
Fun and pleasant, thanks!
on 5. April 2024, 09:30 by Tacosian
Cool!