Canal View by Grant Fikes
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Theme: Twins
Author/Opus: This is the 364th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Grant Fikes.
Rules: Shade some empty cells black to create a single connected group. Cells with circles cannot be shaded, and the shaded cells cannot form a 2×2 square anywhere in the grid. Each numbered cell indicates the total count of shaded cells connected vertically and horizontally to that numbered cell.
Difficulty: 1 star
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 0:35, Master = 1:00, Expert = 2:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is also available here.
Note: Follow this link for other shading puzzles. More Canal View puzzles are in Shading Variety Collection by Prasanna Seshadri and at this link on our site.