#380 - 5x Mini Cross the Streams

     Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded. Clues outside the grid represent the lengths of the blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, in order. A question mark represents one block of an unknown number of cells. An asterisk represents any number of blocks of shaded cells, including none at all.

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  1. SaviaDecember 7, 2021 at 8:39 AM

    Another new one for me, took a few minutes each. There are so many connected-shaded-cells-with-no-squares genres, I am sure we're due a LITS-Nurikabe-Cross the Streams-etc. mashup at some stage... (DL-T, who has finally figure out how to not be "Unknown")

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    1. Eric FoxDecember 7, 2021 at 10:57 AM

      It's a nice base ruleset! Usually a connected group of shaded cells with no 2x2s is called a "wall". I have made a four-genre mash-up of these before, but would definitely be open to making more!

      https://ericfox53.blogspot.com/2021/01/144-lits-tapa-canal-view-irunuri-mash-up.html

      Thanks for commenting :)

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    2. Eric FoxDecember 8, 2021 at 4:45 PM

      I just made this, inspired by your idea:
      https://ericfox53.blogspot.com/2021/12/387-cross-streams-lits-hybrid.html

      Still looking forward to making more hybrids / mash-ups in the future! 👍

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    3. SaviaDecember 9, 2021 at 1:49 AM

      Oh that's so cool! Off I go to give it a go.

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  2. ReubzenMay 20, 2022 at 12:32 PM

    These are fantastic puzzles. Thank you so much

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