Hybrid Star Battle Series (003) - Chocolate Banana
(Published on 22. January 2023, 08:51 by BenceJoful)
Intro
For this Hybrid Star Battle Series I will be sharing a new puzzle each week combining Star Battle with another puzzle genre. This week's genre is Chocolate Banana, a fun name for a very fun genre. This shading reminds me fondly of Nurikabe Star Battle, but here it's not clear from the start just how many shaded regions there are.
Rules
Standard Chocolate Banana and nearly standard Star Battle rules apply.
- Chocolate Banana: Shade some cells so that all areas of orthogonally connected shaded cells are rectangular and all areas of orthogonally connected unshaded cells are not rectangular. A clue represents the size of its group of shaded/unshaded cells.
- Star Battle: Place stars into some unshaded cells such that each row, column, and unshaded area contain exactly 2 stars (1 star in the 7x7 example). Stars may not touch one another, not even diagonally.
- Special note: In this ruleset (unlike some others in the series), it is possible that stars may be placed atop of number clues.
Links
7x7 1-star Example (Penpa+ link):
8x8 2-star Example (Penpa+ link):
Solution code: For row 8 and column 8, give * for a star, and the width of each set of shaded cells. In the 2-star example, the code is 1*1*22*1*.
Comments
on 3. June 2024, 21:03 by Roezaea
really enjoyed this one! good interplay between the rule sets.
on 23. January 2023, 18:06 by szabog
Thank you for the puzzle. I really love when there are two different rulesets and I have to consider one and the other while solving. Unfortunately here it is not the case. It is a quite easy Chocolate Banana and when I solved it, then a very easy Star Battle. Maybe I did not notice something but I did not need the Star Battle rules to solve the Chocolate Banana. And it was the same with the two examples. I am still very thankful for the puzzles - just maybe these two rulesets does not work together so well.
on 23. January 2023, 06:43 by Ambrose
Fun and satisfying hybrid!
on 22. January 2023, 22:04 by KNT
Cool hybrid! This series has been fun.
on 22. January 2023, 17:31 by Jesper
Fun hybrid, thanks
on 22. January 2023, 12:45 by SudokuExplorer
Cool idea and very approachable! :-)
