{"id":5927,"date":"2016-07-21T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:02:08","slug":"canal-view-by-prasanna-seshadri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/canal-view-by-prasanna-seshadri\/","title":{"rendered":"Canal View by Prasanna Seshadri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This shading puzzle variation was created by Prasanna Seshadri and first appeared on the 2014 USPC.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/160721-CanalView-PS11.png\" alt=\"Canal Wall by Prasanna Seshadri\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/160721-CanalView-PS11.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <a href=https:\/\/gmpuzzles.com\/s\/160721CVPS1>solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to shift between shading mode and the linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p><b>Theme:<\/b> Clue Symmetry and Logic<\/p>\n<p><b>Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 130th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rules:<\/b> (Variation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/cave-rules-and-info\/\">Cave<\/a>\/Shading Puzzles). Shade some empty cells black to create a single connected group. Cells with numbers cannot be shaded, and the shaded cells cannot form a 2\u00d72 square anywhere in the grid. Each numbered cell indicates the total count of shaded cells connected vertically and horizontally to that numbered cell.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/images\/puzzles\/CanalWall-Ex.png\" alt=\"Canal Wall Example\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Answer String:<\/b> Enter the length in cells of each of the shaded segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. 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