Aqre ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩

    Today, I present to you Aqre, a simplist genre that is very fun to solve at all levels. Created by Eric Fox, it presents an incredible amount of richeness in reasoning, from counting to connectivity, with rules easy to understand. Here are the rules :

Shade some cells on the board.

1. Numbered regions must contain the indicated amount of shaded cells.

2. There may not be a horizontal or vertical run of 4 or more consecutive shaded or unshaded cells.

3. All shaded cells form a unique orthogonally contiguous (connected) area.

Rules taken from puzz.link -> Click here for a solved example.

     There are 7 puzzles but I've decided to not make it a week series as the genre is popular; and the aim of these weeks is to bask in a new genre with new logic (or at least a lesser known one). As I've said, the logic is very rich here so I encourage to solve more on other blogs, puzsq, puzz.link etc. especially if the latter puzzles get too difficult for you (I am especially NOT expecting people to have fun on the last one...)

Aqre 1 (easy)

Aqre 2 (easy to medium)

Aqre 3 (medium)

The fourth one is an old creation of mine (May 2021). It was featured on LMde before being deleted due to having multiple solutions. I fixed it a while back so I should re-share it.

Aqre 4 (medium to hard) 

From now one, counting is very important, you'll see others call it "maximality" or "minimality", and it can get pretty painful. Do only the first puzzle if you're not acquainted with it, and I recommend the second one as a more challenging counting exercice. The third one is pushing it a bit far, only do it if you're brave enough.

Aqre 5 (hard)

Aqre 6 (very hard)

Aqre 7 (very hard)