Puzzle No 173: Yajilin

While doing the Yajilin Yacht Contest on Logic Masters India, I got this idea. Yajilin Yacht is a ongoing Daily Puzzle Series contest by IHNN (Jeffrey Bardon) , highly recommend to check it out if you haven't already.

It took a while to get this working, but I am very happy with it. I promise no bashing is required, there is an interesting hard step that opens the puzzle.

Rules: Shade some white cells and then draw a single closed loop (without intersections or crossings) through all remaining white cells. Shaded cells cannot share an edge with each other. Some cells are outlined and in gray and cannot be part of the loop. Numbered arrows in such cells indicate the total number of Shaded cells that exist in that direction in the grid.

Penpa+: Online Solving

Puzz.link: Online Solving

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Have Fun!

EDIT: 19th August 2022 [Spoiler]

Intended Solve Path Logic can be seen in this replay - https://tinyurl.com/2luxxnt7#Replay

Puzzle No 172: Nori Nori

Rules: Every region contains exactly two black cells. Each black cell must be a part of a 2 x 1 or 1 x 2 block (domino), irrespective of the region borders. No two dominoes may share an edge. Black blocks can touch each other diagonally.

Penpa+: Online Solving

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