Cavino Wisteria
(Published on 9. November 2024, 09:48 by PrimeWeasel)
Someone wanted a harder puzzle...
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 or double digits, and contiguous runs of same coloured cells have to be separated by at least one shaded cell.
Clues outside the row/column appear in ascending order in that row/column, but if clues have the same value, they appear in normal reading order. (So a Red 1 clue will be seen in the grid from the left first if it's before a green 1 clue.) 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.
Clues are ciphered, where each unique letter stands for a different digit from 1-9
Penpa
Other Cavino's can be found here:
Cavino
Cavino Seguito
Cavino Royale
Uncopyrightable Cavino
Solution code: Row 5 using the following characters to depict the shading color: blue = B, red = R, green = G, gray/black = X
Comments
on 5. February 2026, 03:16 by MaizeGator
My goodness! When I first started solving cavinos, I thought the ruleset was fun but had no idea it could get this deep. This one is going in my pantheon of favorite puzzles for sure.
on 22. November 2024, 17:55 by Agent
What a phenomenal puzzle! Also my favourite of the series. A great variety of deductions and yet everything was fair, the use of connectivity and ascending order was brilliant.
on 21. November 2024, 18:32 by Samish
wow, what a beast, but also the most enjoyable of the series so far! A real test of attention and organization
on 17. November 2024, 21:42 by Gnosis66
Great fun. So many factors to consider, and it stayed tough all the way through.
on 15. November 2024, 22:48 by wisty
YAY <3 <3 <3
on 11. November 2024, 21:18 by Christounet
Wistifying puzzle ! Thanks :)
on 11. November 2024, 17:52 by Snookerfan
Fabulous puzzle and series! Hope there will be more coming in the near future. Thank you
on 10. November 2024, 20:33 by ONeill
excellent again!
on 10. November 2024, 12:16 by Jesper
Great puzzle! I wish I had read the rules properly from the start.
on 10. November 2024, 11:41 by Piatato
Fantastic! Surprisingly smooth, and great fun throughout! The theming just keeps getting better :D
on 10. November 2024, 04:55 by Tacosian
Excellent as always!
on 9. November 2024, 16:26 by filuta
this expanded the series beyond my imagination, what a remarkable puzzle!
