[This is a repost from our archives with new notes at the top: Our second week of puzzles started with Nurikabe — a style originally published by Nikoli which is a company that has influenced me and many other puzzle constructors a lot. I expect my inspiration for this first Nurikabe on the site was a lot of diagonal neighbor pair puzzles on Nikoli.com and trying to do some Nikoli-style construction in this genre before pushing to my own, fairly different themes by end of the week.]

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Theme: Twin Islands

Rules: Standard Nurikabe rules.

Estimated Difficulty*: 2 stars

Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 0:45, Master = 1:30, Expert = 3:00

Solution: PDF

Note: Follow this link for classic Nurikabe and this link for Nurikabe variations. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Nurikabe puzzles to get started on. More Nurikabe puzzles can be in The Art of Puzzles, in our beginner-friendly book Logic Puzzles 101, and in the e-book Nurikabe by Ashish Kumar.