bakpao's puzzles

Another La Paz! I was quite surprised this puzzle was unique with just these clues - while setting it felt like it would've needed at least a couple more. It has a surprisingly smooth solve path too, apart from one or two trickier deductions. Difficulty: 3/5 (rules from Puzzle Rules ) Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and divide the remaining unshaded cells into two-cell regions. Clued cells cannot be shaded. A clue indicates the number of shaded cells which lie entirely within the same row or column as the region containing the clue. Play on pzprxs https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?lapaz/9/9/l2g1r2h3g2s0s1g2h1r3g4l

La Paz is a fun genre recently invented by shye . This is the second one I've set. Fair warning - the puzzle is quite hard. The first version of this puzzle was non-unique, I unfortunately made a bad deduction while setting it. Luckily I managed to rewrite it keeping most of the intended logic intact. It's visually a bit less clean than the previous version, but overall I'm very happy with the logic I managed to write into this one.  A massive thanks to Freddie for testing both versions and catching the unwanted solutions in the first version. Difficulty: 5/5 (rules from Puzzle Rules ) Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and divide the remaining unshaded cells into two-cell regions. A clue indicates the number of shaded cells which lie entirely within the same row or column as the region containing the clue. Play on pzprxs https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?lapaz/11/11/k4l5h1j5m2m2m3zq3m5m5m3j2h3l3k