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1. L◇◇k-Air

 Hello! I'm starting a blog to post some of the pencil puzzles that I've constructed. I'll start off with some older puzzles, then work my way to posting some newer ones.

Here's a puzzle genre that I've been trying to cram lately — Look-Air. Only this time, the board shape is not rectangular.

Creator's time: 0:33.4

Rules: Shade some cells on the board. Every group of shaded cells must form a filled square. Clues represent how many of the five cells forming a cross around the clue (including itself) are shaded. Two squares of the same size may not have a vertical or horizontal line of unshaded cells between them, unless obstructed by another square.

Difficulty: 3/14


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