bakpao's puzzles

Last year, I was invited to write puzzles for the 2024 Serbian Puzzle Championships!  It was my first time writing for this tournament, and I was briefed a structure where there would be 5 sets of puzzles: 1x Classics, 1x Variants, 1x Novelties, 1x Miniatures, 1x Longer Classics. It was never really clear to me whether I was supposed to write an entire set by myself or provide some puzzles for each set, so I ended up going for the latter. It turned out my submissions would all be in a single round (my own). Had I known, I probably would have opted for a different structure or maybe a common theme, but I think it ended up working quite well. Sticking to the categories meant the set has a nice variety to it.   The tournament ultimately was postponed and didn't happen in 2024, but it finally took place at the end of last month.  This is why a few of the puzzles are still themed around the number 24.  I also believe it was a shared championships between Serbia and Croati...

I was writing a Wafusuma for a project I'm contributing to and while doing so got the idea to try this set-up. It's a little gimmicky and I didn't put too much effort into it (this was the first location I tried for the rectangles - I did have to tweak the values though) but I think it turned out cute enough to publish it. There's probably a mean counting puzzle hiding in a different version of this idea as well. Difficulty - 2.5/5 (rules from Puzzle Rules ) Divide the grid into regions of orthogonally connected cells. Two regions of the same size may not share an edge. Borders must separate two different regions. A number on a border indicates the total number of cells contained in the two regions it separates. Solve on puzz.link https://puzz.link/p?wafusuma/10/10/u78g.h.h78m69m7am99p.i.zo.i886m475zs.iab95la976u