This ruleset can be seen as a variant of:
- minesweeper, but clues can be shaded (transparent variant)
- fill-a-pix, but clues do not count their own cell
Deb Mohanty originally used the name "Simple Shading" but the genre was subsequently independently reinvented by 4G@きずふぃろ as "Kurohori".
The latter seems be used more often.
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This combination is named minesweeper.
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Acknowledgements and Changes
2024-04-27 The symbol style for shaded-minesweeper was updated (the ring is now implicit)
2024-04-27 Thanks to PinkHoodie for searching the origins and gathering the metadata for this genre, and for making a puzzle for the rollout!
2024-04-28 Thanks to dohz for deepening the search into the origins of the genre
2024-05-02 On the hex
grid, the neighbourhood for counting is now as expected (PinkHoodie)
2024-05-03 puzzletters PinkHoodie sent a kurohori using all valid numbers, plsu another classic - thank you!
2024-05-10 puzzletters PinkHoodie sent 1 puzzle using variant hex
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2024-07-19 puzzletters PinkHoodie sent 1 classic - thank you!
2024-09-13 Restored number max and min constraint (Pinkhoodies) as well as the visual ring (cause: incomplete recent changes)
2024-09-14 puzzletters PinkHoodie sent 1 puzzle using variant shade-no-number
, effectively minesweeper!