Uncopyrightable Cavino
(Published on 5. September 2024, 22:48 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).
Clues are ciphered, where each unique letter stands for a different digit from 1-15.
Penpa
This is the fourth Cavino, others can be found here:
Cavino
Cavino Seguito
Cavino Royale
Solution code: Row 18 using the following characters to depict the shading color: blue = B, red = R, green = G, gray/black = X
Comments
on 23. October 2024, 19:41 by Jesper
Epic puzzle!
on 12. October 2024, 14:19 by filuta
unforgettable (whole series really)
on 28. September 2024, 12:29 by Christounet
Superb puzzle ! Much harder than the previous ones, especially to get started. Enjoyed it a lot even if I had to restart because of an assumption I made very early ! Thanks :)
on 18. September 2024, 01:48 by Agent
Awesome puzzle! Not too hard except for that one step which took me half the solve time, but I probably missed something easier.
~Thanks Agent! There shouldn't be one particularly hard step, but with the size of it, something can easily be overlooked (as I have seen from a live solve)
on 16. September 2024, 11:18 by Krokant
Look at this, it's all of Venice. :)
What a spectacular puzzle. These are just too good.
~Ha, there was a point in time when I tried to make a Cavino Amsterdam (my hometown) but it didn't really end up looking like Amsterdam at all, might have a look at Venice for possibilities :) And thanks (Dank je, Krokant klinkt wel Nederlands)
on 15. September 2024, 09:43 by RJBlarmo
Great puzzle! Quite challenging for me but felt very rewarding to complete!
~Congrats! I noticed you'd been doing the other ones and was already wondering if you were trying to conquer this one. Nicely done!
on 12. September 2024, 13:14 by CHalb
Wow, brilliant construction! Solving was quite a journey for me. I reallv enjoyed all your Cavinos :).
~ Thank you CHalb! I might do a few more, but not as big as this one, although it was fun to make! Very busy at the moment unfortunately. :)
on 8. September 2024, 12:14 by Piatato
Excellent! Impressively constructed and a very fun solve!
~It was fun to see a substantial part of you plowing through it!
on 7. September 2024, 14:53 by ONeill
Awesome! A very long puzzle with lots of nice steps, definitely much harder than the others.
~Glad you enjoyed it!
on 7. September 2024, 04:12 by Tacosian
A fantastic puzzle. Very fun and, for me, quite hard. Glad to see you decided to make another one of these!
~ Thanks Tacosian!
